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YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE –
April 5, 2026 – I’m a born snoozer. I snooze at levels most people couldn’t dream of (because they’re awake, unlike me). After 20 or so years of use, some back-of-the-envelope math tells me that I’ve probably hit my alarm clock’s snooze button somewhere on the order of 10,000 times.
More often than I’d like to admit … Though I’ve always known my sleep habits could stand to be healthier, I never considered it a real problem until recently, because of the confluence of a few factors: For a lot of people like me with work-from-home-friendly jobs, the pandemic and the rise of remote work made it possible to push our sleep schedules ever later by enabling us to get out of bed mere minutes before the start of the workday. This started to become especially untenable a couple of years ago when I moved in with my now-fiancé. Though he claims not to be bothered by my obnoxious snoozing habits, I know that if I lived with someone like me, I would consider it torture, and I figure I ought to put some daylight between our mornings and anything that requires parsing how the Geneva Convention defines cruel and unusual. I’ve long had the vague sense that snoozing was bad for me, too, but I had never gone beyond that or dug into why. I decided to start there. And indeed, that snoozing is “bad for you” does seem to be a common refrain among people who study sleep.
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