If you spend a good chunk of time snoozing alarms on your phone before getting up in the morning, you’re not alone. A new study looking at the sleep habits of smartphone users around the world shows that hitting the snooze button is a widespread phenomenon.
Thanks to smartphones, it’s easier to snooze than ever. But sleep experts caution that repeated snoozing, aka intermittent alarms, may not leave us more rested after all.
“Using the snooze button is a very common practice, but it’s not widely studied in the medical literature,” Rebecca Robbins, Ph.D., sleep scientist Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, tells TODAY.com.
A new study published on May 19 in Scientific Reports investigated snoozing behavior among a large global sample of adults. “We attempted to quantify…