Do you use an alarm to wake you up in the morning, and if so do you ever hit the snooze button?

I do not ever use an alarm on most days except when on the West Coast. It shifts all my regular Zoom meetings 3h earlier, which forces me to wake up with an alarm. But I way prefer not doing it, and allowing my body to naturally choose the amount of sleep I need.

I only set an alarm when I need to wake up at a specific time. Most days it is not necessary. This is a big change from when I was working in a full-time office job. In those days, I always had to set an alarm.

My alarm is a small, battery-powered clock that’s designed for travel. It doesn’t have a snooze button. Another quirk is that it’s impossible to advance the alarm time after it sounds. You have to swing the alarm hand all the way around the dial in the opposite direction. In other words, snoozing is not really an option, which motivates me to get out of bed!

If we have had a particularly packed month of deadlines, my body simply turns to lead and won’t let me get up. Being a woodworker is so much more physically demanding than being on my laptop all day.

But no snooze button. In a typical week I so thoroughly look forward to my matcha tea ritual that that alone boots me out of bed. I value my morning time so much. I even got a ceramic tea set handmade by our friend Mandy Pang to commemorate this time.

I do use an alarm but as previously mentioned I aim to wake up before it, so snoozing is very unlikely, but lying around in bed is normal. Sometimes I have to get up before my ten hours in bed ideal, like when I am running a course and have some travelling to do. In that scenario I typically set two alarms, ten minutes apart. This still might allow me a brief meditation before I get up.

I use an alarm six or seven days a week—even on the weekends. I try not to hit the snooze button, but if I’ve gone to bed past midnight I may try to catch an extra fifteen minutes.

I use an alarm but I never hit the snooze because I don’t want to wake my husband.

I have an alarm set on my phone for 7:00am. It’s an annoying jingle. I used to have it set to a song I liked, but two things happened: First, I wanted to listen to the song instead of get out of bed. Second, I eventually hated the song. I was like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day with that dumb Sonny and Cher tune. So, now I have an annoying ringtone that I immediately want to silence, which means I grab the phone off the floor as quickly as I can and hit the snooze. I usually hit the snooze three times, which is planned; my alarm is set fifteen minutes earlier than it needs to be because, for some reason, those fifteen minutes of semi-sleep are almost more enjoyable than the seven hours of actual sleep that came before.

Yes, I do and yes, I am guilty of snoozing two or three times, especially after nights when I don’t get between seven and eight hours of sleep. I set my alarm for 5:30-5:45am most mornings to account for the snooze time; this is a habit I’d like to get rid of in the near future.

I have an alarm, but on more days than not I wake up before the alarm on my own. I’m not a snooze-button person. I so value that quiet hour alone before my daughters are up and the day starts in earnest.

Yes, I use the alarm on my phone. I am a snooze button addict, and honestly, I have a difficult time getting out of bed in the morning. I can remember mornings back in college where I would hit the snooze button for an hour or two. Now, I put my phone in the bathroom so that I have to get up to go turn off the alarm; when I get there, I see my gym clothes and the day gets started.

I set five or six alarms to be on the safe side. I hit snooze two or three times, max. But I set the first alarm to ring thirty minutes before I actually plan to wake up, so when I snooze I still wake up on time.

Yes I do use an alarm, and I never hit snooze. I find it easier to just get up when the alarm goes off. That’s what an alarm is for, right?

I believe in waking up when you wake up. I don’t use an alarm, with the exception of for specific early morning appointments, or while traveling due to time differences.

Yes, multiple! I never ever hit the snooze button, but I have multiple alarms just in case. I love Apple’s Bedtime alarm feature, and use it to make sure I get to bed on time.

My dog is my alarm and I’d really love to snooze him, but it never works!

Definitely an alarm, and I do hit the snooze button a couple of days a week (but only for 5-10 minutes).

Unfortunately, I use an alarm every morning. I love the idea of waking up with the sun every day, but unless you’re Tarzan I don’t think this is truly feasible.

If I’m trying to get back into my routine, I might hit snooze for a bit. Deep down, though, I know that it’ll just make me more tired and groggy down the line, so I’m usually pretty good about getting up (even though I wouldn’t class myself as a morning person).

Always. I use the alarm on my iPhone, but I never snooze.

I set three alarms every morning and they’re always two minutes apart. This is to ensure that I don’t oversleep. When I’m up, I’m up; snooze isn’t in my vocabulary.

I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who wakes up on their own at the crack of dawn, but that’s not me. I definitely need an alarm. I’d say I hit snooze 50 percent of the time. It all depends on how much sleep I got. Alcohol is also a big factor. If I was drinking the night before—even moderately—it’s much harder to wake up, and I end up hitting the snooze button several times.

I usually beat my alarm clock with my wake-up. No joke! There’s something about dropping more than 50 percent of your body weight that makes you want to just get up and move in the morning.

On really early mornings I hit the snooze button a couple times, but I have a buffer built into my wake-up times to accommodate this likelihood.

Yes, and yes!

I set my alarm as a backup—it’s reassuring, but I usually wake up naturally within five minutes of when the alarm is set to go off.

When I need to be up early, I’ll set an alarm, though it’s not really necessary because my anxious brain will almost always jolt me awake an hour before the alarm is set to go off.

Yes to the alarm. I never hit snooze, but I have been known to stay in bed a little longer. But since reading The 5 Second Rule I find it easier to just get up straight away.

On weekdays, I set my phone alarm, but I don’t on the weekend. I haven’t hit the snooze button in a long time because I’m semi-awake on most days before my alarm rings.

There was an incident once when I used an analog alarm clock and the batteries ran out, so I woke up quite late, but luckily I still managed to get to work on time!

Never. Not using an alarm is one of the great glories of my life. If I have to get up for an early flight or interview, I use my iPhone to wake me up, but that’s only 2-3 times a year to be honest with you.

I use the alarm on my iPhone. There are some days when I wake up before it goes off. I wouldn’t consider myself a morning person, but I also don’t struggle to get out of bed. While I definitely do have days when I hit snooze and need a few extra minutes, my body’s clock is usually pretty precise.

I’ve spent days researching the best wrist-worn alarms—sort of a Fitbit with a vibrating alarm. Our small Victorian house, plus two small children, plus the wife I want to keep happy, plus the fact that I hate having my phone by the bed, equals no noisy alarms.

I don’t know anyone besides my mom who can wake at 5:00am without an alarm. I don’t hit snooze, but I have two alarms set: 5:00am and 5:05am. The first wakes me up, the second gets me out of bed. I’m pretty naturally able to pop out of bed when I need to, and I’m quite thankful for that disposition.

Yes, and all the time…

I use an alarm to wake up most mornings, unless I am very tired from the night before and don’t have any obligations in the morning. I used to be the snooze queen. It’s something I’ve worked on a lot and continue to work on. If you want to read about why you shouldn’t snooze your alarm, I highly recommend The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins!

Yes, but I get up automatically since I am used to waking up at this time.

I set it just in case. Unless I stay up very late the night before or am depressed, I wake up before the alarm goes off.

I use the alarm on my phone to wake up. I never hit snooze because my wife wakes up with my alarm, too, and I’d hate to wake her up multiple times—she would not be happy!

I set the alarm on my phone for 5:15am. My husband has gotten mad at me for hitting snooze, as it wakes him up if it goes off twice.

I’ve noticed that my body responds differently to the alarm in the fall and winter versus spring and summer. It is a lot easier for me to get up without hitting snooze during the warmer months as I do not want to miss the rising sun, which appears earlier at this time of year. In the fall and winter months, I turn off the alarm but usually lie in my warm bed, slightly dozing until 5:30am, before starting my day.

I rarely set an alarm anymore, but when I do, I am more inclined to snooze and sleep later than when I don’t!

The alarm clock is always set during the week. I’m not a snooze-button-hitter; it’s against my religion.

Only when I have an early flight or something else I can’t miss. To be honest, I don’t have any trouble waking up, nor getting going. I really love morning!

Yes, we just got one of those Philips alarms with the light that’s supposed to simulate a sunrise. It’s okay, although the beep is pretty annoying. I don’t hit the snooze button; with a six-year-old running around the house, snooze buttons are meaningless.

Yes! An alarm is necessary. It’s a great morning when I don’t have to use an alarm, but those days are few and far between. Since I travel a lot, I can hit the snooze button a few times when I’m by myself. My husband hates the snooze button, so I avoid using it when I’m home with him. He doesn’t get the concept of a snooze button. He thinks you should sleep until the very last minute you can, and then get up.

On the rare occasions that I do set an alarm, I usually allow for at least one nine-minute snooze.

I do indeed set an alarm on my iPhone, and I never hit snooze. Once that alarm goes off my brain is wide awake and active, so trying to go back to sleep would be futile.

For the rare mornings when I do need an alarm, I set it about 21-minutes before I actually have to get up, so I can hit snooze twice. I’m a weirdo and I never set the clock on an even time—if I need to wake up at 6:00am, I will set it for 5:56. If I’m waking up at 6:30, I will pick 6:23 (don’t ask me why!).

Absolutely! I use about five alarms on my phone and I snooze all of them for a little while.

Yes, I always snooze either nine or eighteen minutes, which are the default settings on my phone.

Sometimes I do. I have never hit the snooze button; I have never even needed a second alarm. I’m pretty paranoid and I’m a light sleeper, so I’m up and at ‘em. I also don’t necessarily need an alarm because I have young kids, and they are often my alarm.

What kind of creature naturally wakes up at 5:00am?! Yes, I absolutely use an alarm and most of the time I set a second alarm as a backup.

I don’t use an alarm. My three boys make sure that I cannot sleep too late. I’m yet to find their snooze buttons.

I set an alarm just in case, but I’m usually up before the alarm. I don’t use snooze at home, but I’m a frequent abuser of it on the road. People in the adjacent hotel rooms probably hate me and my loud buzzing alarm.

I set my alarm for the bleeding edge of the last possible time I could wake up to still make it through my morning routine and arrive at my first appointment on time. It isn’t always easy for me to fall asleep, so I want to get every last minute I can in the morning. That way I also know that there is no choice for me but to get my ass up out of bed when the alarm goes off and get to moving.

I don’t generally use an alarm. My wife gets up with the kids at 6:30am so I know I need to get up before them and get out of the house. My body does this pretty naturally. My wife is amazing for letting me take the mornings for myself. She crushes her morning routine with the kids without me.

I only use an alarm when I have to catch a flight or have to wake early for some other reason. I never snooze when I use an alarm. When I’m up, I’m up. But I avoid flights or meetings that are so early they would require me to use an alarm.

Getting the right amount of sleep is important to me. I try to be protective of my schedule and prioritize sleep.

I’m the worst—I hit snooze like three times. I tried to quit the snooze button cold turkey. It probably lasted a couple of weeks. And yes, I do use my phone as an alarm. At one point, my husband and I had matching alarm clocks (I think they were a wedding gift), but eventually we needed to change the batteries and just never did.

I very rarely hit the snooze button during the week. I sometimes do on the weekend, though I rarely even set an alarm on Saturdays or Sundays!

I don’t use an alarm if I can help it. I never hit the snooze button if I do.

Yes, on my phone. I never hit snooze because once I’m up I find it very hard to go back to sleep.

No alarm for me. I only use an alarm clock when I have an early flight. The truth is that knowing there is an alarm makes me anxious and causes me to wake up unnecessarily early.

I use an alarm only when traveling as I usually have to get up earlier than the 6:00am Parker Rose (my daughter) wake-up call. And no, I never hit snooze.

I laughed out loud at this. Yes. Yes, I use an alarm and yes, I hit snooze… about thirty times. It’s a real problem. (Editor: If you have this same problem we recommend keeping your alarm outside your bedroom overnight. See our article on how to wake up (better) for more on this.)

Only when I have to catch a plane and can’t risk not waking up. Otherwise, I wake up on my own.

I don’t use an alarm. Generally, I get up within fifteen minutes of my target time.

Since I’ve had sleep troubles for my entire adult life, I have a policy of not truncating my sleep because I have thousands of hours of sleep debt. If I don’t wake up naturally, I need the sleep.

I use the alarm on my phone, and I usually hit the snooze once. I have different sounds for the 4:45am versus the 5:30am alarm. I think they’re what Apple calls “waves” and “crickets.”

Yes, my alarm is set every day for 5:30am, and pushing the snooze button is not an option. Time management is essential when running a business. I value every moment of my day, so as soon as that alarm goes off I’m up and starting my routine.

I don’t need an alarm unless I have to wake up before 4:00am, or I’ve traveled through time zones.

I rarely use an alarm clock. When I have to wake up, I do (most of the time).

I feel like Night Me often has to trick Morning Me into waking up on time. Normally I hit snooze regularly until I’m ready to wake up. But on days when I have to get up early, I set up to three alarms within 15-20 minutes of one another, so I’m guaranteed a backup even when I hit stop on the first two alarms.

Nothing is worse than the feeling of waking up and realizing you’ve accidentally overslept, so I try my best to avoid that even if it’s kind of extreme!

After about three hours of sleep, I have this false sense of being fully rested. When I wake up before getting 7-9 hours it throws off my internal clock. To ensure I don’t start my day too early, I set my alarm for both 6:00 and 6:30am. Not hearing my alarms encourages me to keep sleeping—or at least to not open my eyes.

I use the alarm on my iPhone, never hit the snooze button, and often wake up before the alarm.

I always set an alarm, but I almost always wake up before it goes off, unless it’s set for an ungodly hour so I can catch an early flight.

I’ve used an alarm clock for as long as I can remember. I used to hit the snooze button all the time, repeatedly. Now I don’t. I either get out of bed or I don’t, but now I have enough motivation and passion for what I do that I rarely struggle to get up.

I feel bad when I sleep in, and nowadays sleeping in for me is getting up at 6:00am. I often wake up before the alarm clock—sometimes at strange hours like 4:00am. When this happens, I usually get up and get into my routine early.

I use my phone as an alarm, and plug it into the outlet by my desk, which I purposely place as far from my bed as possible. There’s no point in hitting snooze and going back to sleep if you’re already standing up and 15 feet away from the bed.

Yes, I use an alarm, and I’m guilty of hitting the snooze button a few times if I stayed up past my bedtime the night before. I’m thinking about moving my phone to another room and using a traditional alarm clock to avoid snoozing so much.

I use an alarm but never snooze. My one-minute bed-making wake-up is one of the best practices I’ve created. It starts my day with purpose, at no cost in time or money.

Yup! And all the time, lol.

Oh yes, an alarm is essential. Sometimes I even set a battery-powered backup alarm clock “just in case.” I don’t tend to hit snooze, but I do set one alarm for five minutes after the first one, and that’s enough to make sure I’m awake.

Yes, I set an alarm, but I often wake up a few seconds before it goes off. In situations where my workload has doubled, I sometimes hit the snooze button, but never more than once. When I feel like hitting snooze more than once, that means I need a vacation or long weekend. After taking a long weekend, I’m back to my old self and ready to go full force!

I do use an alarm, but my internal clock always wakes me up about 15-30 minutes before it goes off. I just rest in bed and bemoan the fact that kids have to be at school too bloody early. I’ve thought about starting a petition at our school to start at 9:00am instead of 8:00am because studies show kids need more sleep. If there’s anyone who wants to help me with that, please reach out!

I don’t usually use an alarm, I just know by the light that it’s time to get up. If I used an alarm and set it for an insane time, I would absolutely use the snooze button.

Yes, I do set an alarm but, unless I go to bed too late the night before, I usually wake up before it goes off.

I only ever set an alarm when I have a painfully early-morning start or a very short amount of time to sleep. Then I set at least two, sometimes three, alarms on different devices. It usually works because I can never remember if I’m hearing the first, second, or third alarm, and I panic.

Yes, I use an alarm and I never hit the snooze button. I like uninterrupted sleep - once I’m up, I’m up.

I use my phone as my alarm clock - even though I talk all the time about my desire to buy an actual alarm clock and keep my phone out of the bedroom. I definitely hit the snooze button, usually twice.

My alarm is the theme music from the original Rocky (1976) movie. When it goes off, I think about the character in the movie training to fight for the championship in only six weeks!

I had the immense privilege to be able to call Sylvester Stallone my “boss” when I was chosen as one of the top trainers in the country to be on his show STRONG in 2016, so I am familiar with all the struggles and perseverance that Sly went through early in his life before making that film. So, no I don’t hit the snooze button (in fact, my goal is to be up and getting ready when the alarm goes off… and usually I am).

As I mentioned previously, I am religious about setting the alarm and never needing it. My eyes are open two minutes before it goes off. I lie there, wait for it to buzz (actually that’s a lie; it doesn’t buzz - a radio station comes on), and then get up.

On weekends I sometimes set it for later (6:30 or even 7:00am… I know… so indulgent of me) and still wake up a minute or two before it goes off. In those cases, I hit the snooze button, lie there awake for ten minutes until it goes off again, and then turn it off and get up.

I do use an alarm to get up, and I do not hit the snooze button. I don’t like dragging out the process of getting up; I would rather sleep until I need to get up and then get right out of bed so I don’t feel tight on time in the morning.

I have my own internal alarm that goes off every morning. No matter what time zone I am in, I always seem to wake up on my own. As a result, I’ve never needed to use an alarm.

I rise early and almost always have, luxuriating in life circumstances that permit me to wake without an alarm clock. If I could wave a magic wand to give everyone in the world one gift, it would be the ability to wake without that annoying, incessant beeping. There is nothing like simply opening one’s eyes when they naturally want to open to make the world seem pretty much completely okay. After all, it isn’t called an “alarm” for nothing!

Seldomly, but I have to admit I sometimes do, especially if it’s raining. Then I just want to pull the sheet and covers up over my head and chill for fifteen minutes with the TV on.

I set one alarm on my smartphone and another on my Alexa, plus the Bloom light that turns on. I can’t risk sleeping in. And I haven’t hit a snooze button since I was in college.

When I have to get an earlier start on the day than normal, I use an alarm clock and probably hit snooze a few times. But most days I wake up on my own.

Never! Once, I had a boyfriend who set an alarm every morning, which was fine because I’m great at falling back asleep. What was NOT fine, though, was that he also kept hitting that snooze button, over and over for an hour! We were talking about marriage, kids, all that, but that snooze alarm was my deal breaker. I moved out. I mean, if you’re that tired, why not set the alarm for later and actually sleep the extra hour? I’m still grumpy about it.

As for setting an alarm, I do that maybe six times a year. I avoid it as best I can because I think alarms are evil.

I don’t usually need an alarm, but I always have it set for 6:00am as a back-up, just in case. I normally wake up between 5-5:30am on my own, though.

I don’t use an alarm unless I have a flight to catch. I also don’t schedule meetings or coaching calls until at least 10:00am (preferably eleven), which helps me avoid a feeling of rushing out of bed to start the day. I figure that my body will rest as long as it needs to rest.

In her book Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes the point that “you can overeat, but you can’t oversleep.” Barring a health condition, our bodies will sleep until they get the rest they need, usually not longer. After just three days of deprived sleep, our creativity and mood start to decline rapidly, so I don’t mind sleeping as long as I need to, usually 8 to 9 hours to feel fully rested.

I don’t need an alarm to wake up, unless I have to get up extra early to catch a flight. I have never hit the snooze button once in my life. I’m a morning guy. Sometimes I wake up as early as 4:00am.

I definitely use an alarm clock when I’m teaching on the road, but when I’m home I let myself sleep in so that I can be more productive during my day.

My iPhone is my alarm clock. At the time of this writing—July 2017—I leave my phone in my tiny office, which is near the kitchen. Doing so forces me to get up in the morning. If the phone is near me, I will snooze the alarm, and that delays my morning routine.

Absolutely. I use the “Bedtime” feature on my iPhone, which also helps me track my sleep cycle. When I used to set my alarm for 5:00am, I would hit snooze until 5:30am. Now, I’m up when my alarm goes off. I enjoy having that time in the morning to embrace a routine.

I wake up naturally. If I sleep past 5:00am, it’s because I didn’t go to bed on time, I did strenuous exercise, or I ate a poor diet the day prior. Most days I wake up without trouble.

Also, I have a dog (his name is Duke) who tends to wake me up between 5:00am and 6:00am to go outside and pee. So, I have a built-in alarm clock with him!

I use an alarm. It goes off at 4:30am, and I hit snooze for about thirty minutes (two fifteen-minute snoozes).

I use an alarm, and I hit the snooze bar probably every third day.

Yes. I use my iPhone. And yes, I’m totally guilty of a snooze every now and again.

Lately I have been able to wake up without an alarm because I created this new, consistent routine and my body has gotten used to it. On days when I do need an alarm - to catch an early flight, for example - I use the Eight smart alarm.

No. But my wife sometimes does, which is basically the same as using one myself since I’m all of four whole feet away from her alarm. Sorry for the statistically unfriendly answer.

Yes, five out of seven days a week, but typically my internal clock wakes me up about four minutes before my alarm anyway. Go figure!

I have a deep-seated hatred for people who can wake up without an alarm clock, glowing and ready to start their day, a halo of butterflies circling their heads. Who are you? And how can I be like you?!

I wake up with an alarm clock. I wish I could be a morning person, but no matter how early I go to bed, waking up is a struggle. I would almost always rather be sleeping.

I tried that alarm clock that claims to gently wake you with light, as if from the rising sun. That didn’t work - I simply turned over. I tried an alarm clock that plays music - not going to happen. I just had very intense dance parties in my dreams and arrived late to work. I even tried an alarm that checks your REM cycle and wakes you at the optimal time. I think for me, there is no optimal time to wake up.

So now, I just use a very jarring fog-horn-type alarm to jolt me awake. It’s the kind of sound that gives you a heart-clenching feeling of dread even if you are awake when you hear it. It’s not the most angelic way to start the day, but it’s effective.

When I hear my alarm go off, I instantly grab at my clock, frantically trying to find the snooze button while simultaneously keeping my eyes firmly shut. This translates into randomly slapping my clock, hoping I’ll find the snooze button and the sound will stop for eight minutes. I’m going to tell you, when I finally find the snooze, it’s the most rewarding feeling in the world. Small victories.

I use Sleep Cycle for that so I don’t wake up feeling too groggy. I think that’s also is the reason I never hit the snooze button.

Yes, and always!

I have two alarms. They are one- and three-year-old boys, and each has a great set of lungs! They do not come with snooze buttons.

Yes, and yes!

Yes, and always. The snooze is only set for about 15 minutes, so it’s not really worth hitting repeatedly.

I do use an alarm, and I never hit the snooze button. I constantly tell my coaching clients and our Fit Body Boot Camp franchise owners that the worst thing you can do to yourself is hit the snooze button in the morning. I explain it this way: If you hit the snooze button first thing in the morning, you are sending a message to your own subconscious that says “My goals and dreams aren’t that important. They can wait.” How can you hope to accomplish something great if that’s the kind of thought you’re starting out with? In fact, I’ve now turned off the “snooze” feature on my iPhone completely. I suggest anyone who reads this does the same.

Yes. I use my Apple Watch because it wakes me silently (by vibration) and doesn’t wake my wife. Also, I can set different recurring alarm times for the weekend without having to remember to do it every Friday.

I never, ever hit the snooze button. I think it’s the devil.

If left to my own devices, I will either never hear the alarm or will hit the snooze button for at least an hour. When I was single and lived alone this was a problem.

I set a backup alarm for those rare mornings when all four of us manage to sleep past 7:00am. If I have an early meeting, I definitely set an alarm. I have been known to hit the snooze button. I don’t let myself do it more than twice because it’s a slippery slope, and since Jonathan never sets an alarm, I’m the responsible party.

I like the “bedtime” program on my iPhone’s clock. With a chime, it reminds me to close down everything and start reading; I also like the chime that wakes me.

My phone keeps track of my sleep and reminds me how much sleep I need (usually seven hours - although I wish it were more, I can’t seem to stay in bed longer). I never hit the snooze button. I can’t remember ever in my life hitting the snooze button, even as a kid.

My twelve-year-old is my alarm clock. I admire how consistent she is!

I try not to use an alarm unless absolutely necessary, and when I do I’m not a big snooze person. Once I’m up, I’m up. I do let myself lay for a while though so I don’t shock my body into the conscious world.

I use my phone as my alarm. I never hit snooze, but there are some days when I linger in bed after the alarm. In particular, if I haven’t slept well, I let myself linger to make sure I’ve gotten adequate rest while I consider my day.

I like to function at full steam every day, so if I need to hang in bed a tad longer to set that up, I do so.

I don’t! To me, this is part of true happiness in life. I was a Division I scholarship swimmer in college and began morning practices for training when I was thirteen. My dad was also my coach growing up, which meant we had to be first to the pool at 5:30am in the morning (where my teammates could roll in at 5:50, which did make a difference). From ages 13-22, sleep was like an elusive, precious gem that I could never get enough of.

Frankly, I don’t think I recovered from my accumulated sleep debt until I was about twenty-five. Now it is a pure gift that I am almost always able to wake up without an alarm exactly nine hours after I go to bed.

I’m a firm anti-snoozer. Gotta rip off the band-aid.

Yes, and yes.

I have an alarm set but can’t think of any instances in the last few years that I was not awake before it.

I use an alarm, but most of the time I wake up before it goes off. My alarm is a Carla Bruni Pandora station played through my Sonos speaker system, so I have to do a lot to actually turn it off.

I do have an alarm, but I usually wake up before it rings. I don’t really need it, but you never know!

I absolutely set the alarm. I get made fun of a lot because I have a million wake-up alarms in my phone. I’ve got 5:00am, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00… it goes on from there. Some days I have to set the 5:00am alarm and get up because I know I have to. Sometimes I set the alarm for 6:00am and just snooze.

One of my biggest goals in life is to not hit the snooze button, but I do it all the time. I probably do this because I’m too optimistic about what time I’m actually going to wake up!

I do, and I never hit snooze. I don’t want anyone to be impressed by this, though, because it’s not discipline that stops me from hitting snooze. I just don’t need to because I make sure I get enough sleep - pretty simple!

If I set an alarm, I will wake up several times during the night to see if it’s gone off. But if I tell myself to get up at a certain time, I almost always do, automatically and without mechanical aid.

I wear a Fitbit with a daily 8:00am alarm. It doesn’t change unless I need to get up earlier for something special. I wake up when the alarm goes off and, unless it’s the weekend, I’m up right away.

I only use an alarm if I have something scheduled that I need to do: catch a plane or get a very early start for a climb or a BASE jump. If I set an alarm, I seem to wake up five minutes before it actually goes off, but I always set it anyway.

It depends on what’s happening in my life and work at the time. If I use an alarm, I rarely hit the snooze button. I try to allow myself to wake naturally. If I find that I’m not waking early enough or sleeping well enough to want to hop out of bed in the morning, I recalibrate by making adjustments to things like my bedtime, my diet, and my physical activity.

I have a Sense, though I tend to wake up a few minutes before its alarm chimes. I used to use Sleep Cycle on my iPhone as an alarm, but the cost of having a device in my bedroom is too great.

Dedicated hardware weighs heavily on my minimalist vibes, but it’s worth it for the quality of sleep you get. I have a Philips Wake-up Light too, but my model has a nasty alarm tone so I tend to just use it as a clock.

Only my son!

My girlfriend does have an alarm clock that wakes us up, but I’m pretty good about waking up around the right time.

I use an app called Sleep Cycle as my alarm. The premise of the app is that it is better to wake up during certain parts of your sleep cycle than others. Instead of choosing a specific time to wake up, you tell Sleep Cycle when you would like to wake up by, and it wakes you up within a thirty-minute window of that time.

This has changed my life. I find that when I wake up with Sleep Cycle, I am much less tired and rarely hit snooze.

Sleep Cycle also helps me sleep. It tracks my time slept, number of times woken up, etc., and it gives me a sleep score each week. I can’t prove the psychology behind this, but I’m convinced that the accountability of the app has helped me create better sleep habits.

The only time I use an alarm is when I need to catch an early flight. Otherwise, I haven’t used an alarm clock in years.

Yes, I use the phone alarm. I sometimes hit the snooze button, and I don’t like that because I lose the good rhythm for the day. I’m planning to change that habit and place the phone farther away from me, so I have to get up to turn off the alarm.

There is no snooze button on my cute, wriggly alarm!

My alarm is my four-year-old son (and the sunrise).

No alarm. The only time I ever use an alarm is when I’m traveling and the flight is early, and even then my body will usually wake up before it goes off.

I try to avoid using an alarm. If I do, I use my iPad, rather than my phone, as I don’t allow messaging or other notifications that may distract me on my iPad.

Yes. And definitely yes.

Yes, and yes. If I actually get eight hours of sleep, then I don’t hit the snooze button, but otherwise, I hit it once or twice. Going back to sleep feels too good not to do it.

Right now, there is a lot to do before my tour, so I set an alarm every day. On tour, after driving and singing so much, I will probably let my body wake up when it wants to instead of setting an alarm. It’s really important to me to stay healthy and feel good on tour. I want to enjoy it, not struggle through it.

I rarely use an alarm because I tend to wake up with the sunrise. I never hit the snooze button. It’s important to feel inspired for the day ahead.

I never hit snooze. I am usually up before the alarm because we have two cats who like to nuzzle and talk to us around 4:00am, so they serve as a pretty good backup to the alarm clock.

I love waking up without an alarm. Just think about the definition of the word “alarm”: “a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright,” or “any sound, outcry, or information intended to warn of approaching danger.” So an alarm, in most situations, is a signal that something is not right. Yet most of us rely on some kind of alarm clock; a knee-jerk call to arms; to start the day, ensuring that we emerge from sleep in full fight-or-flight mode, flooded with stress hormones and adrenaline as our body readies itself for danger.

And no, I don’t believe in the snooze button. On days when I do have to use my alarm, I always set it for the last possible moment I have to get up.

Yes, I use an alarm on most days. And yes, I do hit snooze sometimes! My morning routine really starts the night before. The key is to always keep learning and evolving your routine to better suit your needs.

Yes, the Sleep Cycle app on my phone. To snooze it, you just have to flip it over to the other side. I will snooze 2-3 times, depending on how much sleep I get.

Like I mentioned above I’ll sometimes only get four hours of sleep - those times will have a few snoozes.

I use an alarm on my phone, and although I don’t hit the snooze button, but I do set 2-3 alarms within a few minutes of each other to allow myself time to, effectively, snooze.

Ha, never. I have kids; they drill the need for alarms right out of your system.

Nope, never. Okay, I take that back. I’ll set an alarm if I have a flight early the next morning or some other kind of early appointment. But even during those times, I’m nearly always awake before it goes off.

I do use an alarm, but rarely need it. I do hit snooze once and get out of bed at 5:30am. My clock is five minutes fast.

Yes, I use the alarm on my phone. I set two alarms so that I don’t accidentally turn one off. I used to snooze half a dozen times, but now I try to get up before my second alarm goes off so as not to wake my husband.

I do use an alarm to wake up, but I try to avoid using the snooze button. My personal theory is that waking up quickly is a skill that you can acquire with practice, and I don’t want to lose that skill!

For years I used an alarm clock to get me up at 5:00 or 5:30am so I could start the day “on schedule.” But with my recent family and life changes, I’ve ditched my old morning responsibilities and thus, ditched the alarm clock.

I stopped using an alarm when Chloe was born. She tends to be the most effective alarm clock with no possibility of a snooze button.

Yes, and yes.

Side note: I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t hit the snooze button. It’s the greatest invention known to modern humans.

I set an alarm, but it’s not always needed, thanks to the habitual wake-up time I’ve had for years. My body often gets up five minutes before the alarm. I don’t hit the snooze button because I leave the alarm (my phone) fifteen feet away from my bed. That means I must get up and walk across the room to turn it off. By that time I’m awake and no longer tempted to hit snooze. But again, the consistency of going to bed and getting up at the same time (90 percent of the time) makes this easy.

Yes, I use my phone—and yes, I’m guilty of hitting the snooze button, usually at least once but sometimes more than once. To me, the “no snooze button” movement is kind of like the “no email in the morning” movement: overrated. Snoozers unite!

I use my phone and yes, I hit snooze. I wish I popped up out of bed, fresh as a daisy, but alas, I enjoy just three more minutes of cozy time.

Once in a while I’ll surrender and just reset the alarm for an hour later.

Fortunately, I don’t. Unless I have an important meeting in the morning, in that case, I set an alarm as a fail safe because inevitably that’s when I’m at the most risk of oversleeping. Wholeheartedly due to being up the night before thinking about it.

Honestly, it’s difficult to oversleep when you have two dogs that love you to death.

I use my phone alarm clock, which I hate. I hate that I use my phone and I hate that it’s an annoying fake bird sound with a harp.

I don’t set it to that because I hate it, there’s just not anything great that I’ve found and that gets me up. It’s on my list to buy a nicer alarm clock, with the side benefit of which keeping me from looking at my phone in the morning. No snoozing. I set my phone so that snoozing just turns off the alarm.

I use a sunrise alarm clock that slowly gets brighter over the course of twenty minutes before it triggers a bird chirping sound until I turn it off. My alarm clock is clear across the room, so I have to get out of bed to turn it off. I don’t snooze or lay in bed - when I get up to turn the alarm off, I’m up.

Yes and yes! Some people seem to have this huge aversion to hitting snooze but I don’t see a problem with it.

I don’t trust myself to wake up without an alarm - I’ve had way too many close calls. I keep my window shades open to let sunlight wake me up, but I still need an alarm.

My trick is that I set my iPhone alarm clock to a super loud Vampire Weekend song that gets me excited to wake up. Is that pretty lame of me? Is Vampire Weekend still cool?!

I hate getting up with an alarm. If I need to be up at 5:00am, I just go to bed early and usually I manage to wake up before the alarm goes off, so I never use the snooze.

My handy, dandy iPhone is my alarm! I set two just in case. One for 4:00am, and then a second for 4:05.

If it’s the weekend, I try to sleep in. I mean, my idea of sleeping in is waking up at 6:00am. That’s the time my internal alarm clock wakes me!

I only use an alarm if I have to wake up for a specific event. My assistant knows never to schedule a meeting before 11:00am unless I specifically make an exception. This allows me to do my morning routine without interruption and my body to get more sleep when it needs it.

I wake up on my own.

The alarm is on my wife’s side of the bed, so if it gets hit, she’s the one doing it. But she, like me, is pretty disciplined about getting up early, so that helps.

I almost never use the snooze button, but I do use an alarm most days.

I don’t use an alarm at the moment, but I have in the past. If I do use an alarm, I will very rarely hit snooze. My current alarm is a visit from Rufus. Responsibility for life seems to be a good driver to get out of bed.

​I do use an alarm these days, but haven’t always. I don’t trust myself to be up naturally before 8:00am, what with the late nights, but if I am working from home, you bet I don’t set one. I do hit the snooze button - ​not habitually - and it generally happens when I’ve been too ambitious in terms of wake-up time.

My phone is my alarm clock. I have it set for an 8:00am wake up time but I’m usually up around 7:45 so I don’t hit the snooze button a lot unless I’ve gotten to bed late or had a sleepless night.

I don’t like to hit the snooze button because if I hit it then it eats into my reading time and I really love my morning reading so that’s motivation enough to get myself out of bed.

The best feeling in the world is starting my day waking up naturally without an alarm clock. I set mine for nine hours after I go to bed just in case, but I’m usually up before it goes off as I’ve rested enough. This allows me to finish a REM (rapid eye movement) sleep cycle and feel more refreshed the entire day instead of having it interrupt a sleep cycle halfway through.

If I can see the sun peeking out behind the curtains, I wake up. If it’s still clearly pitch black, I go back to sleep for another sleep cycle. I never hit the snooze button, ever.

I use the Sleep Cycle app to wake up each morning. It gently wakes you up within a thirty minute window at the optimum time when your body is most ready to wake up.

I hate being startled by a loud alarm clock, so this app has become my best friend! Plus, I love how it allows me to track my sleep patterns and quality of sleep.

No snooze, rarely an alarm. I naturally wake up very early, even when I don’t want to. It’s great/sucks.

Yes, I do use an alarm to wake up in the morning and I’m definitely guilty of snoozing every once in a while. On days I don’t snooze I actually feel a lot more empowered and energetic.

Happily, almost never, only as a backup if I have to catch an early-morning flight.

I do use an alarm!

I hit snooze once to give myself a chance to wake up peacefully and with grace. In those first few moments I thank The Universe for another day, and ask for guidance. I turn to my husband to say “Good morning, I love you,” and then I’m up and at ‘em!

Yes and yes. I don’t know how people get up without it.

I use my iPhone as my alarm. I essentially have two alarms for those nights when I went to bed really late. Always have your alarm set to go off at least twice between the times you set it in case you accidentally hit the snooze button because you were extremely tired from the night before.

I occasionally hit the snooze button. I must admit getting up can be quite challenging sometimes. But sometimes you just have to force yourself to get up; you have to kind of train your body to adjust to a certain routine. Lately I’ve been waking up literally a minute before my alarm goes off. I think my body has gotten so used to my morning routine that my body acts as its own internal alarm clock.

I’m not much of a snoozer. Usually in the morning, when I’m up, I’m up.

We use Sonos as our alarm clock and it’s nice waking up to an indie disco playlist instead of a canned iOS alarm. Plus, it keeps me away from the phone.

I do use an alarm, but my body usually wakes up before then.

It’s also the summer time, so my answer may be a bit different when the winter rolls around. Usually I’m up between 6-7:00am. There are times when I’m just really tired and I’ll hit the snooze button as many times as possible. That’s when the perks of being a freelance photographer really comes into play! Outside of jobs that I’m hired for, I can really make my own schedule. So if I need to change something up in my routine because I need to catch up on sleep, that’s totally ok and doable.

The snooze button used to be a really bad habit of mine. I curbed it by putting the phone with alarm just outside my bedroom door, which means that I have to actually get up to switch it off. This method works, most of the time. What works even better is setting a clear conscious intention to get up each morning.

I do use an alarm most mornings but often I’ll wake up before it, especially in the summer.

I definitely never snooze because I wake up immediately when I hear an alarm. In college, my roommate was a repeat snoozer and had classes earlier than I a few days a week. The next semester, I ended up scheduling all 8:00am classes so I’d have a reason to wake up instead of hearing her alarm. :)

I wish I were capable of sleeping late enough to need an alarm clock. I’m almost always up by 7:00am. I only set an alarm if I need to catch a plane or train in the morning (once every other week or so). I do not hit snooze.

Definitely. I am a heavy sleeper, so I need the alarm to make sure I get up to help with the baby. If I didn’t they’d have to wrestle me out of bed themselves each morning.

I use my phone’s alarm to wake up in the morning.

I’m not a snoozer but I am guilty of turning my alarm off completely and falling back asleep if I don’t have any appointments that day. Between my dog and my husband the extra and often accidental sleep doesn’t last too long, though.

If there’s something specific, like a meeting, I have to be up for, then yes. Otherwise, I try to leave the alarm off and I’ll wake up around the same time every day.

When I do have an alarm on, I usually hit the snooze button once or twice.

I have an alarm on my phone. I usually wake up before it though. If I didn’t get to bed early enough I might hear the alarm and snooze, but that’s pretty rare.

I use an alarm and do occasionally hit the snooze button. Hitting snooze disrupts your natural circadian rhythm and winds up exhausting you more, so I try my best to avoid this by putting my alarm in the kitchen.

No, I don’t use an alarm unless I’m traveling for work (and no, I haven’t hit the snooze button since high school).

One of the things about me is I kind of live in extremes: I read 200 books a year, I travel 100,000 miles a year, and, wait for it, I spend 11 hours a night in bed. I know that’s really unusual (especially for a mom of littles), but it’s what I need, and it ends up averaging out to a little under ten hours of sleep a night. This means I don’t need an alarm. When I’m traveling for work, however, this gets thrown out the window.

I do — and I try not to!

My boyfriend sets an alarm and then he wakes me up. Sometimes I’ll use mine, which is the beginning of the Beatles’ song, Piggies. I like to snooze it once or twice.

I don’t use an alarm clock, I always wake naturally.


I use an app called Sleep Cycle to measure my sleeping patterns and wake me up at the ideal time. It sets a thirty minute range and wakes me up when I’m in my lightest stage of sleep. Sometimes I snooze it, but the snooze time gets progressively less and less, so eventually you kind of have to wake up.

I do not need any alarm, my husband and girls are my beloved alarms ;)

I use the silent, vibrating alarm on my fitness tracker (currently a Fitbit Charge). I like getting into a pattern of waking up at the same time, but if I sleep in it’s no big deal since I work from home anyway. I don’t ever snooze my alarm, but I sometimes turn it off and go back to sleep.

I have a second vibrating alarm on my Pebble watch set for 8:00am. That’s my cut-off for what counts as “getting up early”, which I aim to do every day. If I’m still in bed when that one goes off I try to get up immediately so I can keep that habit going.

I haven’t used an alarm since college. I’ve been an early riser for the past 8 or 9 years, so being up and working by 7:00am (or earlier) is comfortable and comforting to me.

I’m a big proponent of giving my body the amount of sleep it naturally needs to function optimally, so I rarely use alarm clocks.

I (almost) never schedule meetings before noon, and with workouts at 10:30am, that’s about the earliest I leave the house. This allows for a solid 8-9 hours of shuteye.

I use my iPhone’s alarm. When I go to sleep at night, I leave the phone on a chair a few feet away from the bed, so that I have to get out of bed to silence the alarm. That usually prevents me from snoozing.

Yes indeed, I use my iPhone to wake up.

I’ve never been a snooze button person. If I could afford to waste my time with a snooze button I would just set my alarm later. So I just get up when my alarm goes off.

I try not to use an alarm and just wake up when I’m ready to – unfortunately I’m part dormouse and have been known to sleep around the clock on more than one occasion.

The days when I need to be up for a particular time I always set the alarm much earlier than I need to because I’m completely in love with the snooze cycle. There’s something about that nebulous half-awake, half-asleep state that I find really powerful. I often find that the solutions to any problems I’ve been struggling with just come to me in that state, and I also get insights and ideas like nobody’s business. Luckily, because I write so soon after waking, I find it relatively easy to capture these insights and make use of them.

No, I don’t set an alarm. If I have to set an alarm I know my routine is out of sync.

The window in my bedroom faces east, so I let the sun wake me up. I feel it is more natural than an alarm. I have the blinds open and let the rays pour in. I am not in a routine if my body doesn’t wake me up automatically. I don’t believe you should ever force yourself to wake up. You should wake up naturally. I sleep with the blinds open, and I wake up with the sunrise.

When my routine is good, I wake up just after 6:00am every day. I implement the biphasic sleeping pattern, which consists of six hours sleep and a twenty minute nap later on during the day. I like sleeping; I just don’t like sleeping much. “You need eight hours of sleep a day” is nothing but a schema, certainly quality, not quantity, on this note.

I have five alarms set, five minutes apart, rapid fire before the time I’m actually supposed to be awake in case I’m particularly groggy that morning for whatever reason.

Back when I lived in the UK, with my stressful job and two-hour commute to London, I used an alarm every day and I was a prolific snoozer; so much so that my alarm actually went off an hour earlier than when I needed to get up!

When I first left that life behind, jumping on a plane headed to Thailand nearly three years ago now, I gave up using an alarm clock for a long time. But these days, in the name of productivity and so that I can experience the glory of sunrise, I set two alarms; one for 5:15am and the other for 5:30am. I’ve managed to quit the snoozathons in favour of a two-staged wake-up; my body still needs at least one warning!

Usually it’s my boyfriend who sets the alarm. I’m bad at waking up :) I need someone to wake me up and kick me out of bed.

In the summer he wakes up with the daylight, but as soon as the days become shorter we need an alarm. We never hit the snooze button.

I always set one, but I don’t usually need it. Most days, I manage to wake up before my alarm goes off, though sometimes only by a minute or two!

I tend to hit snooze if my alarm is pre-6:30am, or if I was out late the night before. I know it’s a bad habit, so I try to keep the snooze short (under two minutes) to push myself to wake up. I’ve never been one of those people that sets an alarm an hour ahead of when they need to be awake so they can snooze. Hitting snooze too many times for me usually means I’m going to be late!

I always use the alarm clock on my iPhone, setting it for at least thirty minutes before I need to wake up.

As a Mac developer and tech guy, I’ve tried several apps and hi-tech wristbands that track sleep cycles and give the wake-up signal when your body and brain can handle it the best, but I haven’t found anything to replace the alarm clock on my iPhone.

No. I once slept in a friend’s bed who hit the snooze button 5-6 times, literally falling back to sleep that many times before finally getting out of bed.

It was awful! I wanted to punch her in the face.

A toddler doesn’t have a snooze button, unfortunately.

For the past year I’ve been waking up to Lovely Day by Bill Withers (he’s the man). I only snooze once, for about fifteen minutes at a time (and not every day).

Before we had the puppy, I’d let my alarm go off for an hour. I could hit snooze all day long. My poor boyfriend.

I don’t even own an alarm clock! Waking up to an alarm clock would be my idea of a living hell… it seems so unnatural.

I prefer waking up to my own body clock. The last time I had a job where I needed an alarm clock to wake me up was in 1993. I remember thinking then that this kind of lifestyle was not for me.

I think it’s good to be strict in my routine and ignore the snooze button on my alarm clock. I want to be productive, and vegetating in bed won’t help me do that. It is hard sometimes, though.

I haven’t used an alarm clock for over six years (I’ve had no need to since our daughter was born). We now have three kids so things haven’t gotten any easier just yet.

The youngest is just two years old and has a habit of always getting up early. I should probably embrace it because I know as soon as they’re older I’ll be battling to get them out of bed and up on time.

Alarm, yes. When I worked in corporate, I was definitely a snooze button addict – in fact, my mornings were planned to have snooze time.

I’ve since found that on days I snoozed, I felt terrible, had a hard time waking up, and felt tired and dragging the whole day long. Since science has solid evidence that snoozing is not so good for you, I now steer clear of it.

iPhone alarm. Not a big snooze button guy. I wake up at a time that works for me and if it didn’t I would change it. I also try not to pointlessly stay up late.

I set my iPhone alarm as a backup alarm (I have a really, really cool EQ3 digital alarm clock, but it’s really just for decoration), and rely on my UP24 and Hue to artificially lift me out of my dreams.

If I didn’t use an alarm, I would never wake up before noon. Maybe not even then. I might just sleep forever.

I use the alarm on my phone, and I usually hit snooze two or three times. All too often, I accidentally turn it off completely. I am not a morning person. I am a morning monster.

Nope, I just get up naturally.

No alarm clocks for me. Our modern era is already filled with enough beeps, bells, jingles, alarms, and sirens. I’m doing my part in promoting the silence, every morning, in an act of peaceful quiet protest.

Besides, the morning will come with or without an alarm clock.

Yes, I need an alarm. And yes, I often doze for ten minutes or so. I don’t mind it - as long as I get out of bed.

I use my Nexus 5 as my alarm, but I hate hitting snooze.

Oh yeah. I’m terrible at waking up. I found the best way to get out of bed is if I start the alarm process at least thirty minutes before I’m due to get up, this way I can say to myself “five more minutes” a few times. Otherwise, I’m just sad I have to leave my bed; it gets really attached to me so I always feel bad having to leave it behind ;)

I use an alarm and I try not to hit the snooze button (I’ve found this builds discipline). If I’m really excited about a project I’m working on, I’ll wake up naturally before my alarm clock sounds. This I would love to make a habit of.

I use the Sleep Cycle app on my iPhone – it tracks my sleep cycle patterns and wakes me gently with soft tones during the lightest sleep phase possible sometime between 5:30 and 6:00am.

I’m woken up to a cell phone alarm at 5:00am and can’t imagine succeeding otherwise. Of course, it’s not easy. There are many times when I hit the snooze “button” a few times! If I didn’t have my cell phone alarm, I wouldn’t be able to get up.

I normally set an alarm on my iPhone, but I’m pretty good about waking up as soon as the alarm sounds.

I’m a chronic snooze-hitter. It’s shocking to me to get out of bed after the first alarm. Which must be annoying to anybody in the same house as me. Sorry guys.

As I said above, I use a Lumie Sunrise alarm clock. It’s great – especially in the winter. However, if I’m travelling and in a different timezone, I need the reassurance that I’ll be up in time. On those occasions, I use the wriststrap of my Fitbit One and use the ‘silent alarm’ feature. I then wake up through vibrations, rather than alarm. That’s important, as when I’m travelling I often wear ear plugs.

I rarely use an alarm. Only if I need to wake up really early for a flight or some other event I can’t miss. Typically I just wake up when I feel rested.

I set my alarm for 7.30am every morning but I tend to wake up naturally at around 7. I never press snooze on my alarm but I do tend to stay in bed for a few minutes before I get up.

Although I usually wake up around 7:00am with no alarm, I definitely need one as a safety net. I probably hit the snooze button once every few months – I’m definitely a morning person and don’t mind getting out of bed.

I use my iPhone and typically only hit snooze once. It really depends on when I go to bed.

No snooze button. Getting up early isn’t easy, but I’ve managed to iternalise this quote from Marcus Aurelius (credit to Ryan Holiday, which helps:

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work–as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for–the things which I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’

–But it’s nicer here…

So you were born to feel “nice?” Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

–But we have to sleep sometime…

Agreed. But nature set a limit on that–as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. But not of working. There you’re still below your quota. You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash and eat.

– Marcus Aurelius

If you consider Dexter an alarm, then sure. Snooze? laughs that’s funny, I wish I could snooze him at 5:30am. Ben sets his alarm, but even he will agree, it’s no longer needed.

I have to use an alarm clock in the morning, otherwise I won’t get up. Thankfully, I never hit snooze because I’m too lazy and tired to even do that. I’m either up or I’m not.

I always wake up before the alarm goes off. I do occasionally hit the snooze button, but when I do I never feel as awake when I finally get up!

I never hit snooze. I pressed something wrong a few times and ended up not waking up at all, so no more snooze for me.

I use my iPhone alarm, and try not to snooze it.

Yes. I use the Sleep Cycle app on my iPhone and I often hit snooze once or twice.

I wake up when my partner does, and she hits the snooze, but then I go back to sleep for a bit when she leaves for work. I have an alarm set for 7:00am, but usually I wake up a few minutes before, and that usually lets me know my body thinks it’s had enough sleep.

I hate snooze buttons. One leftover from being in the military is that when my alarm goes off, my brain wants to start working. Laying there pretending to sleep is like having my engine revving without ever putting it in gear.

Yes, I use an alarm. It provides the structure I need; I can’t rely on my biological clock.

Yes, I use the alarm clock on my iPhone, but my body clock gets used to waking up at a certain time and I tend to wake up before the alarm (even by making my alarm nine minutes earlier, my body learns very quickly).

I never hit the snooze button. No matter how hard it is to do, I simply take my iPhone and stare at the light of the screen until I can see sharply and state that I am, in fact, awake.

I used to hate alarms until I discovered a little app called Rise, by Simplebots. It’s super intuitive to set and the Early Bird alarm is the most pleasant sound I’ve ever heard that will still actually wake you up.

I typically set two alarms in case I get a bad night of sleep, so I can snooze for a few minutes.

I use the default iPhone alarm on my 5S, and I probably hit the snooze button a couple of times each morning!

I wake up with my iPhone alarm Monday through Friday.

Since my body is so well adjusted to my schedule, I don’t even need an alarm on the weekends to still wake up between 5:30 and 6:30am. Even during the week, I often find myself waking up 4:45 or 4:50am, just beating the alarm by a few minutes.

I love alarms. I love waking up really early and getting more done while I feel like the world is still asleep.

These days I’m trying to see what happens when I wake up naturally. I usually wake up when my boyfriend does; at 5:30am, but I always go back to sleep. I find in the winter I can easily sleep until 9:00am, so I’m using my alarm a lot more right now. And yes, I use the snooze button, over and over again.

Mostly, I use my iPhone as an alarm. Normally I wake up a minute before it goes off for some weird reason, so I’ll naturally deactivate the alarm.

Snooze button – guilty as charged. I’m considering putting the alarm clock farther away from my bed.

I always set my alarm, but I usually wake up before it goes off.

I believe people who use snooze buttons lack joie de vivre. Not me. Maybe it’s because I’m young, or maybe it’s because my alarm wakes me up with Express Yourself by Diplo, but even when exhausted, I’m so excited to start my day that I practically jump out of bed.

Also, I usually wake up a few minutes before the alarm, but I simply turn it off and start the day early.

I do use an alarm but usually fix my mental alarm to wake me up before I even touch my phone (it’s always worked for me). I say a prayer and direct my mind to wake me up at a certain time as I sleep and my eyes get opened exactly at that time. I guess that’s the beauty of a routine.

We wouldn’t trust ourselves not to use an alarm and we’re definitely fans of the snooze button.

It’s a habit we’re trying to break at the moment, so it’s usually hit at least once, sometimes twice, then it’s time to get up to prepare food ready for school. Normally we bring some snacks to get us through the afternoon slump, so we prepare them and then get breakfast ready.

I absolutely have an alarm clock and I most definitely hit snooze on occasion. I make a concerted effort to avoid it, but it has been getting darker and darker earlier and earlier in my hemisphere. It’s really tough to get out of bed at 7:00am when it feels like 4:00am.

Yes, I turn it off after one snooze.

I impose a self-ban on the snooze button; ten minutes extra sleep won’t help me in the long run. In the winter, as the temperatures go below zero, this policy is pushed to the test.

No need for an alarm. When the sun rises I wake up, bright and chirpy. I can snooze at any time.

Yes, I do, but usually I wake up before the alarm rings. Sometimes I hit the snooze button just to snuggle in bed longer.

I am currently using the Sleep Cycle app on my iPhone. A Google search for an intelligent alarm led me to the app and My Morning Routine. I have to admit, I use the intelligent snooze. It’s a blessing in disguise.

I used to use a Bose alarm with a kiddie song CD in it to wake me up in a good mood, but have recently changed to the Sleep Cycle app on my iPhone and love it.

I believe a morning person needs an alarm to help them get up early. If I have to wake up at 7:00am, I’ll set my alarm for 6:45. I need fifteen minutes in the morning to collect my thoughts.

I never hit the snooze button, instead I hit the ‘dismiss’ button. As soon as I hear my alarm ring, my eyes automatically open.

I use Rise on my iPhone. I think I have used the snooze button, but only when I was an undergrad.

I do sometimes when it’s something important, but usually I wake up naturally around 6.30am. I try to turn the alarm off as soon as it sounds as the noise annoys me!

I use an alarm any time I need to be somewhere before noon, as I’m a heavy sleeper and don’t trust my internal clock.

I use the countdown timer on my iPhone, as I like to work out how many hours I’m sleeping. I rarely hit the snooze button.

I don’t use an alarm clock, I have a natural clock inside my body. I usually wake up at my desired time by telling my mind and body the night before.

Last year I got married. Pedro has changed my routine, mostly with the snooze button.

I used to hate that button because I dislike alarm sounds, especially alarming ones that make me jump half the way to the ceiling! But in the past six months I’ve actually become accustomed to him setting the alarm an hour before you want to wake up and pushing snooze four times.

I teach in the mornings twice a week, so on these days I use an alarm.

Yes, I use Sleep Time, an app that wakes me up in my lowest level of sleep between 5:30am and 6:10am using gentle beeps. I never use the snooze button; I’m pretty much ready to get my morning on as soon as I wake up!

I use the Sleep Cycle app as my alarm clock. It gradually wakes you up when you’re most prone to feeling well rested. I have the traditional snooze feature turned off.

Yep, a gentle affair so as not to stir me with a start. I have been known to occasionally hit snooze.

I use the alarm on my iPhone, which is set for 6:10am.

I am not a “snooze button” kinda guy, but definitely used to be. Lately I have been using my Fitbit Flex to wake me up. It’s pretty cool because it vibrates on my wrist and doesn’t wake up my wife.

I have been known to use an alarm clock but mostly I find that I wake before the alarm clock is about to go off and then wait for the clock to strike the appointed hour.

I use an alarm and always have. People think that waking up early is something only morning people can do, a group magically predisposed for early waking, but it has never, ever, for one day in my life been easy to wake up early.

I never hit the snooze button because I won’t ever stop hitting it. I quiet my alarm, take a deep breath, then roll out of bed.

I do, but like many “morning people” I wake up fine without one. I find if we get up at the same time every day, our bodies just know.

My alarm wakes me up with the most awful ringtone (trill) my iPhone has to offer, though my body and being are synced pretty well these days to a circadian rhythm with my ticker inside, so often that alarm clock is an after thought.

There is no snooze button, ever.

Unless I have to be somewhere or I’m taking an early morning flight I don’t use alarms at all, but even when I do, I get up straight away and never hit snooze (unlike my husband who is a nocturnal person and finds it hard to get out of bed in the mornings).

About a year ago the clock next to my bed started malfunctioning so I threw it out and decided, as a little experiment, not to replace it. I have slept MUCH better since, mainly because the lights from the clock were so damn bright that it was always a little distracting.

Now I keep my phone plugged in at the foot of my bed, far enough away that I can’t reach over and check it, but close enough that the alarm can wake me up (though I only set an alarm when I have an early meeting).

Yes, from my phone. I hit the snooze button probably too many times.

I don’t use an alarm that often. On my workout days, I keep one as a backup. I have a hard time sleeping in. I hate snooze buttons. Either get up or don’t!

Never. I haven’t used an alarm clock since I was a freshman in college. I blame my mom for ritualistically waking me up every single morning at the same time when I was a kid. Even if I try to sleep in, it doesn’t happen.

I use my iPhone, which is normally charging across the room. The same Allman Brothers song (Melissa) plays every morning to wake me up.

I do use an alarm when I work very early, but I never hit the snooze. I like to get up.

My boyfriend uses an alarm, so I usually just get up with him. I’m not really a snooze button person – when I’m up, I’m up – but to say I never use it would be a giant lie :)

Yep on the alarm, sometimes on the snooze. If I snooze it’s usually only once (once in a long while I’ll give myself two snoozes).

I haven’t used an alarm clock consistently since I left LA.

The only time I use one is when I have an early appointment of some kind. But now I’m so out of practice that I wake up every twenty minutes all night long, checking my phone to see if it’s almost time for the alarm to go off, or at least close to it. I generally get up before it makes any noise.

My phone alarm is set for 8:00am in case I don’t wake up, but that doesn’t often happen. I don’t use snooze – if it’s time to wake up, it’s time to wake up.

I set an alarm for 7-8 hours after I go to bed (unless I’m up against a deadline or have to be up at an ungodly hour to be on set), otherwise I can’t fall asleep because I’ll be worried about sleeping in too long and wasting my precious morning hours.

I use Awaken on my Mac and Alarm Clock Pro on my iPod Touch and switch between them randomly. I rarely hit the snooze button.

Hitting the snooze button just means “You’ve ruined my sleep and pissed me off. Please piss me off a second time in five minutes while I try to sleep for a few more minutes.”

I just turn the alarm off to get it over with.

Yes. I always set an alarm on my phone, usually, and delusionally, for 8:00am. And, unless we have a bus or a train or a plane to catch, or friends to meet for breakfast, I’ll normally hit the snooze button half-hourly for an hour or so.

Yes, I use an alarm, and I admit to serious snooze button abuse. We’re talking an hour of snooze.

I’m a zen student and I’ve been on retreats where my role was the Jiki-Jitsu, or time keeper. So I had to get up at 4:30am to prepare the morning tea and then ring a bell to wake up everyone else. The snooze button was not an option, and I can only imagine what would happen if I ever slept in. Needless to say it was a very challenging but worthwhile practice for me. I’m still working on incorporating that discipline into my daily life.

Snooze? Never. If I used an alarm-clock instead of my iPhone, the snooze button would be the newest, shiniest button on the console.

As far as setting the alarm goes, I do tend to use an alarm as a backup on days I must be somewhere in the morning on time. Funnily enough, I end up setting my alarm more often on weekends than weekdays because those are the days I am meeting someone for coffee, traveling somewhere, or catching a big Chelsea game on TV.

I have several alarms that go off at 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15, and 8:30am. I’m usually out of bed around 9 but have read most of the morning’s emails by 8:30am.

I use the Sleep Cycle app Benjamin recommended months ago. It gently wakes you based on the movements of your body during sleep. The only downside is that it is far too easy to snooze. You don’t even need to hit a button. You can just tap it.

Note from Benjamin: the snooze feature can be disabled, if you dare.

Sometimes, yes, and sometimes, yes.

When I have to be somewhere by a particular time, I set an alarm as a fall-back plan. 90% of the time however, I wake naturally, earlier than the alarm. Every now and then, I wake with the alarm, in which case, I usually need the snooze bonus ten minutes.

Only when a plane or ship beckons, and always too hyped to hit snooze.

In a previous life in the UK I have been known to get up, shower, dress and drive to work on the Pavlovian conditioning of an alarm clock, only to find the office closed due to it being a Sunday.

I use an alarm in the morning. If I’ve had a good nights sleep or got to bed fairly handy for eight hours, I’m well rested and don’t argue with the alarm. If I’ve pushed it the night before and stayed up past 10:00pm (party animal), I’ll feel tired in the morning.

It works in a cycle, if I’m up early and productive and have exercised, there’s no problem in passing out that night when I need to, then it’s no problem waking up. So really the exercise and busy day fuels the sleep, which fuels the exercise and busy day.

Yes I use the alarm on my iPhone. And just to be sure I wake up I put the iPhone in the kitchen. So I really do have to get up and go there. I used to have it next to me when I was sleeping but I was effectively snoozing a lot, so I chose to have a more radical answer to this problem. It’s stupid but my brain is even more stupid in the morning.

One thing I realized is that I need at least six hours of sleep. I can go under that if it’s just for a day or two but if it’s for a week I adapt my waking hour. I don’t want this thing to ruin my good mood :)