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Snoozing can improve cognitive performance but you still feel sleepy!
Are you sure — I’ve heard the opposite advice — don’t use the snooze button and get straight out of bed!
Yes, I’ve seen that advice too — and now it seems, according to a piece of research published a few days ago, not to be the case.
Maybe the advice was written by a morning person, a lark?
Could be, and that is another interesting thought: those larks who get up bright and early may well think that this is the best thing to do — just jump out of bed.
This research by Tina Sundelin et al. of Stockholm University, first analysed data from 1’700 people and 69% said they at least sometimes used the snooze button or set multiple alarms.
Only 69%?!
Well, that is a lot, or not, depending on your view — I’m more of an owl trying to become a lark and do regularly hit the snooze button. I would have assumed that just about everybody does to a degree — 31% apparently not.
And snoozing is good for you then?
Well, that is a harder question to answer, and surprisingly they found that additional snoozing, for the 31 participants they subsequently…
