When the snooze button was first invented in the 1950s, legend goes that it lasted nine minutes because anything beyond that would have been too difficult to program into a mechanical clock. Fast forward to today, and those very arbitrary nine minutes are a saving grace to sleepers everywhere—factored into morning routines like, well, clockwork.
According to very unofficial polling of the mindbodygreen editorial team, 67% of us press the snooze button on a typical morning. Of those who do, 33% of us press it more than three times (raising my hand sheepishly).
Curious about whether the snooze button is just an innocent creature comfort or something more sinister, I reached out to sleep doctors for their take. Does snoozing actually give us a few more minutes of precious sleep, or does it take a toll on our energy and alertness? Here are their thoughts on whether or not snoozing is, in fact, losing.
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