Picking up a pace before the start of the school year is necessary… but it’s also difficult after the excesses of the holidays! Many of us therefore abuse the “snooze” function of our alarm clock: it delays our alarm for a few minutes and gives us as much respite…
Yes, but here it is: according to experts from the Sleep Clinic Services (in Australia), the “snooze” function of the alarm clock actually does us more harm than good. “Your body and your brain are disoriented, they explain. After waking them up, you tell them it’s time to go back to sleep, and so on.“
The “snooze” is also bad for the heart
Because each time you go back to sleep, a new sleep cycle begins: because of the alarm, it is suddenly interrupted after a few minutes, and this on several occasions. This disorientation generates an impression of unease and the feeling of being groggy: “you’ll feel like you had a bad night, even if you slept like a baby“ summarize the Australian specialists.
Worse: according to Pr. Matthew Walker, professor at the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California (in the United States), the “snooze” function is also bad for the heart. “As if alarming your heart, literally alarming it, wasn’t enough, the snooze feature assaults it repeatedly over a very short period of time.“he develops, quoted by our colleagues from West France.
The solution ? Avoid the “snooze” function, of course. For this, the best thing is to install our alarm clock out of reach – not right next to the bed, then! And to quickly find a quality sleep (with serene awakenings…), it is recommended to adopt a routine and stick to it: get up and go to bed every day at the same times, for example.
