Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast. The snooze button.

Is the snoo button a blessing or a curse?

First I think it's important to point out by the way that no other species demonstrates

this unnatural act of prematurely and artificially

terminating their sleep with some kind of an alarm device in interviews or when I'm speaking with the public, I've often found it

hard to entertain two essentially oppositional concept.

The first is the notion of how useful a regular wake-up time is.

And of course, to accomplish that, most of us have to use an alarm clock.

Yet on the other hand, in contrast, is the concern about being so aggressively

terminated and jettisonedened out of sleep.

And in fact, coming back to the former in favour of not using alarm clocks and snoo's buttons,

when people often ask me, how do I know if I'm getting enough sleep and I often reply

if your alarm didn't go off in the morning would you sleep past that time and if the

answer is yes then you may indeed not be getting enough sleep.

At least enough, defined as your own innate,

what we call homeostatic drive for a certain amount of sleep and you may ask

by the way why have I offered cautionary tales about the use of alarm clocks and I wrote about this a little bit in my book and

also I've spoken publicly about it before. Well if you compare the physiological

state of your body after being loudly awakened by an alarm

relative to the physiological state of your body after naturally waking up from sleep. Those two body states look very different.

And there was a fantastic study a few years ago, gosh a few years ago I'm dating myself I think it was back in 2005 by Professor

Hori and colleagues out in Japan it was a great study and in the study their

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