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Nurse explains worrying reason you should never set multiple alarms to wake you up

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Published 15:42 30 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Nurse explains worrying reason you should never set multiple alarms to wake you up

It sounds like if you snooze, you actually do lose

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Tiktok/@jordan.bruss / Getty Stock Image

Topics: Sleep, Health, Lifestyle, Science

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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Dear reader, if you are like me then it probably takes more than one alarm to get you out of bed in the morning.

Alarm number one is more of a herald that it's time to hit the snooze button and spend 10 more minutes in bed, and perhaps another 10 after that if I'm feeling daring.

Deep down, you might suspect that this is not the best way to be getting a little bit more sleep considering you're trading at best a few more minutes of slumber for a second round of alarms to rudely awaken you.

Others might have a more structured morning routine with several alarms set and scheduled to guarantee you wake up and stay up.

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However, a nurse has warned that this really isn't a good idea and explained why you ought to avoid setting multiple alarms to rouse you from the land of nod.

"No, no. Don't hit the snooze button." (Getty Stock Photo)
"No, no. Don't hit the snooze button." (Getty Stock Photo)

TikToking nurse Jordan said it would impact your 'REM cycle' which is where your rapid eye movement occurs and you can get a deeper sleep where you start to dream and your body truly recovers.

She said: "If you're someone who sets multiple alarms I have bad news for you, don't come for me, just trying to help.

"Waking to multiple alarms every morning really disrupts your REM cycle frequently.

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"This actually causes sleep inertia, increased drowsiness, fatigue, mood swings and it also raises your cortisol levels.

"Every time your alarm goes off you're in that fight or flight response so waking up like that multiple times in the morning is very stressful.

It turns out having an alarm blaring at you several times a day isn't great, who knew? (Getty Stock Photo)
It turns out having an alarm blaring at you several times a day isn't great, who knew? (Getty Stock Photo)

"So when that alarm goes off in the morning get up! Don't keep traumatising yourself."

Judging by the comments in her video it seems as though lots of people enjoy the 'best feeling' of going back to sleep after that first alarm kicks in.

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Someone else said that had one for every 10 minute interval between 6am and 7:30am, while another said they 'sleep through the alarms and that's why I need several'.

They said you wouldn't get sleep inertia if you just 'don't wake up', which I suppose is rather true.

Another person said they had gone for a Sunrise alarm clock which gradually turns up the light to wake you up instead of blaring sound at you.

"The first day I woke up I literally woke up with a smile on my face," they said, which sounds like a rather more pleasant way of getting up in the morning.

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More shared their tips for getting out of bed in the morning, including having the alarm located somewhere you have to get up to switch it off.

Here's to a good night's sleep.

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