Just one more minute, please. Ever wonder why the snooze setting on your alarm only doles out extra sleep in the form of nine minute increments instead of say 10, or even five? It turns out that the seemingly arbitrary allotment actually pays homage to clockmakers of a bygone era.
Long term snooze button users may find that they no longer wake up for the initial alarm; and so they resort to depending on multiple snoozes or even multiple alarms. This is the opposite of training and conditioning yourself to be efficient.
What happens is that the sound of the alarm itself becomes less effective over time, because you choose to disregard its original purpose. As such, you become even more addicted to the old snooze button. Now, ask yourself: On average, how many times do you hit your snooze button? Like most addictions, the snooze button is simply a symptom of a much bigger problem. Unlike most addictions, though, the bigger problem is easier to spot—because it can only be one thing. As long as you get seven to eight hours of sleep, you should be able to feel the difference.
We felt it! Trust us, your body will thank you for it. Anyway, it's hard to imagine that the first alarm clock patent came after the invention of the snooze button, if I've got my timeline right or wrong? So I leave the invention issue as an open question. But it's enormously fun to direct my ire at the man who penned Ben Hur.
Anyway, there are plenty of ranty bits out there about the snooze button and the problems that it has caused all of humanity. The issue that I really want to investigate is what went wrong? Archaeologists have found evidence that clocks have existed as early as BC.
Clocks running on water existed in China. The Greeks invented early mechanical clocks in the 1st century BC. In the early 13th century clocks even had alarms set on them to make a motion or sound at the same time everyday. These clocks often called monks to prayer or meals. These signals were fixed.
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