by Lauren Sukiasian
Stay in bed in the morning It is a bad habit that should be avoided. So the alarm clock’s snooze function, which consists of snoozing the ringtone, is your worst enemy.
It is very tempting to use this in the morning Snooze buttonand snooze the alarm for a few minutes. “Five more minutes,” we hear ourselves say. A practice to avoid at all costs, here’s why.
The reason for not using the snooze button in the alarm clock
When you wake up, the body releases two types of hormones to boost you up: cortisol and dopamine. When you turn off the alarm and set a reminder with the snooze function, you go back to sleep and then your body releases melatonin and adenosine. Then the body receives two contradictory information at the same time! For comparison, it’s like taking a sleeping pill and coffee at the same time. consequences ? We get even more tired and this fatigue will follow us all day long. Additionally, when you go back to sleep after turning off the alarm, you inadvertently start a new sleep cycle (an hour and a half on average) that will be broken by the second loop.
In addition, if you use this function several times before waking up, the results will be worse because each alarm reminder confuses the body more, which does not know whether to wake up or go back to sleep.
How to wake up more easily?
To avoid using this feature, set an alarm for later if you plan to get up later anyway. Follow a bedtime routine of going to bed at a set time and waking up at a set time. This will actually help your body.
You can also do an activity that puts you in a good mood as soon as you wake up to use a reward system that will make you want to get up (exercise, meditation, reading, etc.).
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