The snooze button may be considered one of life’s luxuries, but is it really helping you out, or making you more tired?
The video below uses whiteboard marker drawings to illustrate exactly what your body is experiencing while asleep, leading up to the time your dreaded alarm clock goes off. The video was written and created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown:
During sleep, we usually pass through five phases of sleep: stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) explains. These stages progress in a cycle from stage 1 to REM sleep, then the cycle starts over again with stage 1.
We spend almost 50% of our total sleep time in stage 2 sleep, about 20% in REM sleep, and the remaining 30% in the other stages. Though babies spend about half of their sleep time in REM sleep.
If you are woken up at the wrong time, you may not feel yourself – really. Over 62% of people in Britain need between 15 minutes and 1 Hour after waking up before they “feel human”, article in the UK Mail states. Society is already sleep deprived in general, and teenagers actually need more sleep than they are getting on average – especially in the mornings.
To avoid this morning agony, try getting to bed a little earlier and setting your alarm to go off later whenever possible – without being late for your day’s commitments, of course!
