Pressing snooze once or twice can actually help night owls ease into wakefulness and reduce sleep inertia, improving mental performance in the first 40 minutes. But repeated snoozes shorten quality sleep time, so limit it to one or two, or just set your alarm later.
Neuroscience Fun fact of the day is that snoozing your alarm clock in the morning is actually not bad for you, depending on your brain type and how many times you press snooze and I'll tell you why. Research shows that if you are a night owl or you are used to pressing snooze all the time, pressing snooze once or twice can actually ease your transition from sleep to wakefulness and it can help to reduce drowsiness from sleep inertia. Research also shows that chronic snoozers actually have improved mental performance within the first 40 minutes after waking up when they press snooze. And Signs shows that your overall sleep architecture and sleep quality throughout the night is not impacted by you pressing snooze. It only impacts the quality of sleep for the amount of time that you press the snooze button. So it is recommended that you only press snooze once or twice. More than that and you might as well just set your alarm a little bit later to increase the amount of time you actually can get good quality sleep.
