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

Re: I think the original point

[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I could more easily see the logic of "I think I'm getting up, but just in case I fail to do so, the alarm will go off again in ten minutes" than "nah, I want 10 more minutes of not-very-good-sleep". Except it seems that other people really like those 10 minutes (or whatever) of half-awake sleep, whereas for me I don't seem to get any resting value out of it.

Re: I think the original point

[deadpuppy5.livejournal.com]

see, those 10 minutes of half awake sleep are like ... oh, sugary candy -- you get no "useful value" (be it nurtients or rest), but damn are they enjoyable.