United States: It has been the blame of many guilty for this snooze function of alarm clock, but a recent study published in the Journal of Sleep Research showed that it is not because we feel guilty when we do that.
As suggested in a recent article, anyone who hits the snooze button during the night apparently doesn’t have any harm to their sleep or the cognitive processes in their brain. However, the study highlighted the fact that not only did it not cause any harm, but it also ensured that some benefits were present.
Results have shown that people experience better wakefulness if they sleep only a little bit more than if they don’t sleep at all, and this is especially true for people who usually have the problem of drowsiness in the morning and are to sleep for too little of a period. The habit of hitting the snooze button can partially resolve a sleep disorder, not separated from ‘sleep inertia.’
On the other hand, the measurement of snoozing and awaking phases more smoothly seems to be better for the brain functioning in contrast to the persons who just awakened by the first alarm ringing.
According to their research, Tina Sundelin, one of the co-authors from Stockholm University, assigned their comment in a news release that said one should not avoid sleeping if it means satisfaction and fun, the case of those who made sleeping times of around 30 minutes. She opined that this could improve “morning-dazzled” individuals’ feelings and make them a bit brighter than they are now.
The research’s final outcome was based on two studies. The investigation conducted on the 1731-weekday adult population was the first one in this study, whereas individuals who normally use their snooze alarm were monitored in the second study.
On the one hand, 69 percent of the adults have snooze or set several alarms, and on average, they use snooze for a total of 22 minutes per morning. What’s more surprising is the calculation of the consequences, and according to the study conducted, 30 minutes of sleep means that you lose there 6 minutes.
Consequently, the data show that youthful people, more likely around six years younger than adults, hit the snooze button rather than shrug it off. Along with that, the crowd of morning people use the snooze button 25 percent of the night owls are inclined to use the snooze button four times more frequently. Snooze users not only have the shortest sleep duration, 6.87 minutes, on weekdays, but they also go to bed later.
These discoveries, however, do not discourage medical professionals from emphasizing an increasing and constant amount of sleep since it results in the best health. The American College of Cardiology suggests this range: seven to eight hours of sleep each night since evidence has confirmed lifestyle longevity is more likely to occur in such a range.
In global stats, inadequate sleep is related to approximately 8 percent of deaths from the samples of population, while the CDC shows almost 35 percent Americans have insufficient sleep. As a result, it is not the ONLY factor that causes the worsening of our health, but we all should make sure that sleep is not overlooked to achieve the full life.