What is the point of the snooze button?

Keep yourself partially awake after you hit snooze. The snooze button should really be a backup alarm in case you do fall back to sleep, rather than an excuse to ignore your initial alarm.

Who came up with snooze?

Lew Wallace
The French inventor Antoine Redier was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847. Lew Wallace came up with the the snooze button. Popular opinion has it that the snooze was the feat, or fault, of Lew Wallace, the famous author of Ben-Hur.

Why is snooze button bad?

That grogginess and disorientation that we experience upon the first few moments of waking is called sleep inertia. Hitting the snooze button repeatedly disorients your body, raising the chances of this sleep inertia extending two to four hours into your morning.

Why are snooze buttons always 9 minutes?

Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they had to choose between setting it at nine minutes and a few seconds or a little bit over ten minutes. So the nine-minute snooze was chosen as the best option for users’ sleep cycles, too.

Why is the Iphone snooze 9 minutes?

As Apple Explained says, “This was a problem, since they [alarm clock makers] couldn’t adjust the clock’s gear teeth to line up perfectly for a ten-minute snooze.” This left them with a decision to have the snooze feature silence clocks for 10 minutes and 43 seconds or 9 minutes and 3 seconds.

Is it good to have multiple alarms?

The answer is just one, because setting multiple alarms to wake up may actually be harmful to your health. Despite almost one-third of adults saying they hit the snooze button over and over again, as they feel deprived of sleep, this makes you feel worse.

Why is the iPhone snooze 9 minutes?

How long is iPhone snooze?

nine minutes
iPhone snooze times are always nine minutes, and unfortunately it’s not possible to change snooze time on your iPhone. This nine-minute timeframe can seem like an eternity if you are a heavy sleeper, or short-lived if you usually need a little extra time.

What is the optimal snooze time?

Gizmodo made a suggestion to set the snooze interval to 20 mins. Sleep fragmentation studies showed that naps shorter than this gained little benefit but longer naps risk deep sleep. So this 20 min interval should give you the optimal time for more rest. Otherwise the snooze button is quite damaging to press.

What is the standard snooze time?

But why is it still nine minutes? In a completely programmable digital era, the fact that snooze is set to a default (and in many cases, an unchangeable default) nine minutes is what is described as a “nostalgic artificial standard.”

Who invented the snooze clock?

Snooze Clock Timeline: Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur, invents the Snooze Alarm (agent of Satan?) 1956 – General Electric-Telechron first marks a Clock with a Snooze Alarm Function 1959 – Westclox introduces the Drowse Electric Alarm Clock, the World’s first Snooze Clock with the rocking 5/10 minute Snooze option

When was the first bedside alarm clock with a snooze button released?

In the mid-1950s, arguably a time of huge technical advances and massive growth in the household appliance market, the first bedside alarm clock with a snooze button was released.

Why is the snooze time set to nine minutes?

The main theory behind why the snooze period was set to nine minutes is a technical one. The snooze function had to be worked in around the existing gearing of a small alarm clock, and keeping the time period in single digits is said to have presented a more logical technical solution.

How many times do you hit the snooze button a day?

A recent survey of nearly 20,000 people by Withings found that around 50\% admitted to hitting the snooze button at least once in the morning, with a sleepy 15\% putting off their alarm three times or more. Withings found the under-30 age group are the guiltiest for multiple snoozes.