Mel Robbins: Why hitting "snooze" ruins your brain
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- You don't need me to tell you that hitting the snooze button once your alarm goes off doesn't make it any easier to wake up. In fact, you probably feel more anxious, less productive, and more tired by the time you wake up after hitting snooze multiple times.
In this video I'll explain why even though it may seem impossible to get up after hearing the alarm once, it's necessary. Your brain relies on sleep cycles to feel refreshed and energized. Once you wake up and then go back to sleep, you hijack your brain and tell it that it needs at LEAST one more hour of sleep.
So, if you don't have another hour in the day to spare (you don't), get up and get started. It will be hard at first, but soon you'll understand that the key to productivity is simply getting up on time. Do this for a week and watch how your life improves and your to-do list shrinks.
I tried this the past week. Wow what a difference!!! I'm at 6 or 7 time snoozer. This changed my life!
how did you get the willpower
Finally! Someone is able to explain why I feel like crap when I try to give myself a little extra snooze. I didn’t know it had a name but thank you very much! Whomever gave this video a thumbs down obviously hit the snooze alarm this morning and woke up grumpy. 😉
Great comment, Kat!
Kim Townsel thank you!
😂😂😂 I think you nailed that theory!
I don't understand
The real problem is the Alarm Clock itself !!! We live in an unnatural and sick society that places profit over well being. The real reason people are so tired is because we are not waking up after our bodies have gotten ALL of the healthy rest that it really needs. The alarm clock disrupts our natural sleep in a very toxic manner. It's not right
lesson learnt: set snooze to last 90 minutes
Lesson learned before you make your way to that sneeze button is another button with many names that turn your alarm off
No! That is not the solution. What will you do after that 90 minute snooz ends? You have to take "snooz" out of your life!
🤣
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@sanaullahjatoi4750 it actually does work. is you want to get up at 6;30. set alarm to five, then end it when you wake at five. by the time your 6:30 rings, you would have gone through an entire new sleep cycle and should feel more refreshed. it helps some people get up.
I’ve tried this, 100% works
Mel can you talk about the deeper issues why we hit the snooze button? For example, dreading the day, etc. I suspect it's a bad cycle that we don't get up immediately, feel crappy, aren't efficient/don't feel good, don't make progress in our lives, and then don't want to get up.
Something I wanted to hear today 🙏🏻
The best alarm is your own voice yelling at you to wake up. I made that my alarm and put my alarm outside my bedroom door and man did I have no problem waking up. 😂
Do you have arguements with yourself? 🤣
Your own voice! That's pretty hardcore. I feel like my partner would be less than pleased with that approach 😂
I can’t wake up early Tina Bryson 😭
I started watching your videos three days ago. September 5, my 53rd birthday! I’m already more positive, more optimistic, & ready to make some changes! Today I am thankful for.....finding you :)
Wish I could hang out with you for a day or so... I'd love to hear more of your 'gems'. This video hit me... Tomorrow, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and I'm getting out of bed.
Thanks Mel
Captain Red Beard did you do it
@@Sound_The_War-Cry I'll check that out now. Thanks
Mel Robbins 5 second rule and why you should never hit the snooze button really changed my perspective on life. I really appreciate what she has done
If this is true, it explains a lot!!! Trying this tomorrow!!! I hate being groggy and grumpy when I get out of bed.
This has changed my life!!!!
Omg! I used to be a super vibrant person. Then a series of things happened and I have been in a rut for ten years...in darkness, blocked and depressed and lost. I wonder what kind of neural pathways have grown in my brain. Sincerely hope the 54321 magic will work for me, to be my best.
Thank Mel for all this! Have a great day.
It’s crazy how every time I watch one of your videos or read your book, I feel everything changing... it’s crazy how I’ve gone from watching pointless videos, to a video like this that can actually help change your life. Thanks :)
This is HUGE for me. She is so right! No wonder I feel so crappy in the morning!
The real issue is the alarm clock itself. We should not be startled awake out of our natural state of rest. We are tired because the corporate work time construct is toxic to our well being. We should awaken naturally and only after our body and brains have truly rested.
I've never thought about it in that way, but it must be true when I think about myself being grumpy all morning whenever I hit the snooze button!!! Thank u Mel!!!
Thank you!! Struggling with this all my life. I will do better from tomorrow 😁
“When you press snooze your brain goes back into a new sleep cycle”
Ya that’s the pointtttttt, let me sleeeeeep
shendoll aa In that case just don’t set your alarm, weirdo.
Sooo true!!! I always feel less energetic after doing that! In fact i love waking up without an alarm😆
I'm currently driving around Australia and every day I wake up with the sun, it's bloody wonderful.
I now have the reason, why I shoudn't hit the snooze button! Thank you so much :)
Who wants another sleep cycle and onle be really awake 4 hours later? Not the future me!
You have no idea how much you are helping me, in many many ways. Thanks, Mel!
Thanks! Really suffering from it. Even after the final getting up, I still feel sleepy for the next few hours, and I just jump to a conclusion I am just the type of a person for 9 hours sleep.
I would like to hit the ''snooze'' button because I just can't get my eyes wide open for a minute, and it's kinda hard to struggle with the desire to fall asleep again.
This is life changing information, thank you for this dr
Thank you Mel, this makes so much sense. If you don’t get up when your alarm goes off, you are starting your day on the back foot.
Great advice Mel, you have changed the way I used to live....think.....eat.....you are my role model
Wow, didn't know about all this. I'm all about being more productive, too, so I'll have to pass this message on! Cheers!
You are a real life changer!
Thank you, Mel.
With love from India
Thanks. I needed this. The good thing about using an app to wake up is you can completely disable the snooze button, which I've just done! I always thought that my daily snoozing was doing me no good. That first wake up shock is always way easier than the next 3 every 10 minutes. I have mine set so that I have to solve two maths equations before I can switch it off. G'night!
Snoozing or slacking on first few minutes of a new day could have huge impact on your entire day. This is so true and very challenging to overcome. One way to overcome is by building Morning Routine 😊
Makes sense. I can wake up a few minutes or even an hour before my alarm goes off. But I lay there awake, waiting for it, because I don't know what time it is (could be 2 am could be 6 am). When it goes off I think "Ugh, I don't want to get up yet" and hit snooze. Fall back asleep within SECONDS. Keep hitting snooze repeatedly, and then finally drag my sleeping head out of bed feeling awful!
Oh, I just overslept today, what a perfect timing!
One of my fav clips thank you Mel
And this is the reason why i fall in love with u all over again every time that i hear you speak.
I love you so much Mel
Thanks for making life simpler and not easier
This is so me! Thanks for sharing Mel 👌😘
Having something to look forward too that day plays a real part in how quickly I wait up. I think it is my brain that is telling me "Go Back to Sleep!"
Thank you Mel
Well said........
I used to feel the same.....
Hi Mel.. Its been a while that am following you.. I reached out to you little late though I reached you at the end.. you are really a great mind changer. Love from India
I allways told my housemate to stop nagging at me in the morning because I felt like I needed one more hour for every time.
Anyways I don't think your solution is just that easy, because it has to be done many many days in a row to stop us from responding the same way to both the alarm's STOP and SNOOZE function, and otherwise changing something like that is very difficult.
Very interesting video, and a gorgeous woman.
I love you, Mel and company!
Thanks mel
This was just what I needed to hear!
Anyone watching during quarantine?🙋♀️
5,4,3,2,1, Go!!! Thanks Mel
now i know why i got hangover every day in a week
Awesome message Mel Robbins , I am going for the 5 4 3 2 1 method. Thank You
Very Powerful Information!! I love your videos! Thank You!!
Genius Mel
You know you’re a snoozeaholic when you watch this video and the thought runs through your mind that it might be nice to let that part of your brain get 4 more hours of sleep.
Thank you
I love you.. Thank you❤
I needed this reminder. Thank you Mel!
Some how she reads my brain I beleive LOL! I am so struggling with this getting out of bed issue so hard! I needed this reminder too! 🙏
Nice explanation. Thanks
Brilliant! Thank you!
Thank you for this
Love you Mel thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks 🙏 ♥️ 🙏
It took maybe 2 days of doing this and i feel the BEST first thing in the morning now. And going to sleep at night is like...orgasmic
Great content !!! This explains a lot for me...
Have you ever woken up after 3 or 4 hours and you feel strangely fully awake? That's normal. You have to set up your alarm to go off when your body is in between cycles. It's easier to get up from bed after 2 complete cycles (about 3 hours), than it is to wake up in the middle of, say, the 4th cycle (somewhere between 6 and 7h30). If you're having trouble waking up, it means your alarm woke you up too early *OR* too late. Go to bed 15 min earlier or later and see how you feel the next morning. Then again 15 min earlier, if necessary, until you find the sweet spot. Then the snooze button won't be necessary and you will feel fully functionnal right away!
Thomas Favre thank you for your explanation which makes more sense than the video I am quite puzzled by. The question is, if I wake up upon the first alarm in the middle of a sleep cycle, wouldn’t I be tired regardless the snooze button? Mel’s explanation does not make any sense to me but yours does.
It depends on a person,coz snooze button works for me, I never feel sluggish, I'm wide awake and ready after hitting it 2x
this is pure gold. damn, mel you're so good. like so so good
I am going to do it.. I can do it..
Very interesting. I never knew this.
Question, is this presuming that the alarm is going off at the exact end of a sleep cycle? If we feel groggy when the alarm goes off, could that be because the alarm is going off in the middle of a sleep cycle, thus causing sleep inertia?
Thank you mam !
Well for once i cannot relate to Mel's video...i don't have or ever used a snooze button in my life!! Always been a very early morning person...and still am.
This makes sense but what if your alarm wakes you up in the middle of a sleep cycle? Will your brain not feel like it needs to finish the cycle?
try you best to time it in 90 min cycles. so if you go to bed to fall asleep at 11ish, then you might want to wake at 6:30, giving you 5 full cycles. I think 5 is recommended. But yeah, sometimes shit happens and you interrupt that cycle, which is what most people to when they set multiple alarms. 6, 6:15. 6:30, 7;00. it totally messes up your cycle. so try the 90 min rule.
It's better to sleep 7:30 hours of you can't sleep 9 hours, for real
@@ladywrld5863 I have actually noticed this in the last couple of years since I made this comment and I agree with you 100%
You nailed it:)...excellent !
got it, i'll start tomorro
Amazing! Liked your videos.
In the evening it takes me a whole lotta time to fall asleep, but between snoozes of ten minutes I fall asleep immediately and dream and continue my dreams after hitting the snooze again (this goes on for as long as two hours sometimes). I do feel more rested after 2 hours of snoozing than after the first alarm but.. I don't want to do this anymore.
I did this in the morning because I didn’t want to go to school 🏫
My problem isn’t hitting the snooze button. It’s going back to sleep after I’ve taken the kids to school. I come back home and just decide to not face the day or take care of the things that I need to get done.
Well then, I make some pretty amazing decisions while my brain is in sleep inertia. I hit that snooze button bc my alarm scares the crap out of me every morning and I need to get my blood pressure back down. By it's second time going off, I'm at least prepared to hear it and get up. Then I go to work and kick ass... Just saying.
Christina McClelland do you have one of those alarms that gradually gets louder? I bought one. It’s worth it. I no longer wake up in a panic/fear because of a loud alarm.
I think i got it. But i gotta go back to sleep now.
While this is good advice, it doesn't actually get to the root cause of the problem. If you even feel the need to hit the snooze button, you're not getting enough quality sleep. Ideally, you should already be awake by the time your alarm goes off.
So, if you're not getting enough sleep, you need to go to bed earlier. But if you don't fall asleep if you go to bed early, you need to turn off your screens a while before bedtime and have a way to wind down in the time leading up to bedtime. And if that still doesn't work, then you need to start looking at things like nutrition, e.g. avoiding eating late, supplementing extra magnesium.
But going back to the alarm clock specifically, it's best not to use one that jolts you suddenly awake with a horrible sound because this suddenly puts you into a state of stress which is a terrible way to start the day. I use a light alarm that gradually gets brighter over the course of 30 minutes, then when it's time to get up it makes birdie sounds.
What is the name of your alarm clock? :o
@@courtneytaylor1841 It's called "Sunrise Clock Natural Sound Machine". It's very cheap, and I'm sure there are much better versions out there. But this is definitely better than a normal alarm.
I love this advice. However, some mornings I am in such a deep sleep when the clock goes off, I stumble getting out of bed, walk into the doorframe, and start to make coffee w/o the water, coffee, etc. I’m still half asleep! Walking zombie 😊. Sometimes I lie there just to get my brain awakened!
Do people only need to worry about sleep inertia while hitting snooze? For example, if someone wakes up in the middle of the night to pee and goes back to sleep, then wakes up 2 hours later for work, will that person be in a sleep inertia? Or is it just about hitting the snooze once we are awake regardless of how many hours sleep we have gotten?
this must be true because after 4 snooze taps.... i never feel alive till about 11:30am smh from like a 6:30am wake up time.
Isn’t the more likely reason we hit the snooze button because it makes us feel better? Maybe you’re deep in REM sleep and dreaming like crazy and snoozing a few times allows you to drop back into REM sleep so you can finish that cycle and wake up feeling better. I noticed that when my alarm clock goes off my body slowly wakes up and I get out of bed about 30 minutes later. Some days that 30 minutes is desperately needed so I can finish sleeping and other days I’m just allowing my body to slowly wake up. Would love to see scientific studies on snooze button use. A good study would also show the likelihood of each group feeling tired later in the day.
I’m so addicted to the snooze button. Sad!!
In another video you said that the cycles are between 75 to 90 minutes. Which one of you is right?
When you wake up at 2 AM in the morning and you’re ready to go to work but you don’t have to go to work until 6 AM do you try to get back to bed or you stay up?
What if I’m in the middle of a sleep cycle when my alarm goes off in the first place?
Yes agree - I now 54321 as soon as the alarm goes off :)
Anyone else kinda hate the fact that we have to schedule the way we wake up for “maximum productivity”?
Like I’m just tryna live my life, smh
Well i, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'd 5 times this morning. but I didn't go back to sleep. AND I am on day 2 of my 5-second journal. I just need to set my coffee so it starts brewing at 4:50am
Hey Mel, you are my favorite mentor, .i do believe is better to avoid snooze of course , but i think sometimes your theory doesn't work because if you wake in the middle of a deep sleep cycle hour you will feel exhausted and it happen to me on days off to stay a little longer in bed and felt much better afterwards, so i completed my cycle that was interrupted , what do you say about this???
I feel like to give up everything please help Mell
What about when you wake up to go to the bathroom, then go back to sleep?
OK, Totally get it, but how should you deal with days off, is the suggestion to still use the alarm clock to get up as per working days ?
Me realising when I snooze from 9 to 10, wake up around 10 and start feeling like the work is finally going good after 2 pm.. 4 hours later. Shit
She's like what is so hard to understand about this?
Could you aldo explain 20 minutes power nap?
So when I hit the alarm for the first time, how is it guaranteed that I am not in the middle of a sleep cycle too?
I'm guessing the productive solution is to go to bed earlier by however much time one delays getting up...
So you’re telling me…don’t hit the snooze button unless I want sleep inertia! That explains my brain fogginess.
But sometimes I get tired and have to take a nap 30mn in order to study it's not 90 mn so I'm a in a sleep inertia when I woke up after 30mn ..what should I do please?