Snooze Alarms: Tool of the Devil or Savior of Humankind?

[marcusmarcusrc]

There was a recent Tech Review article about an invention named
Clocky. Clocky is an "attempt to solve a common problem" - eg, hitting the snooze button one too many times - by rolling off your table and to some random location on the floor after you hit him, so you have to get up to find him in order to hit snooze again.

But why have snooze buttons at all? People seem totally wedded to the snooze concept but it seems to me that if I can afford to get up 15 minutes later than the time I have set my alarm for originally - why not just set my alarm for that time? I certainly don't trust myself 5 seconds after waking up to intelligently make a decision "can I afford five more minutes of sleep or do I need to get up now?", so I just assume that if my alarm goes off then I really need to get up. And then I try to set my alarm for the latest possible minute I can get away with...

Comments

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

If I need to be awake or feel like getting up, I just get up when the alarm goes off. If I don't, turn off the alarm and go back to sleep until whenever. I think the snooze button is the worst of both worlds, because then you get jarred awake more than once.