Over her second - and last - coffee of the day, Claudia Müller has a chat with her colleagues. Often the working day begins on a congested road Image: picture-alliance/dpa She saves herself the bother of a confrontation with her superior and makes sure she's punctual. If she regularly came to work late, her boss would start to raise his eyebrow. Even though gas prices are soaring in Germany and everyone these days is well aware that car emissions are exacerbating climate change, Claudia Müller prefers driving to work in her Volkswagen to taking the bus or the train.Ĭlaudia Müller works in a service company. Keen to beat the worst of it, she leaves in a hurry. It takes Claudia 21 minutes to get to work, depending on how bad the traffic is. By now, Claudia's husband Thomas, her daughter, Anna, and the family's pet cat are up too. Until this ritual has been completed, the working day can't begin. Freshly showered, Claudia Müller sits down at the kitchen table to enjoy her first cup of coffee of the day. Image: Gina Sanders - Īfter 26 minutes in the bathroom, she's feeling a little perkier. In Germany on average the night ends at 6:18 a.m. She shrugs off her duvet and gets out of bed. She's hit the snooze button a few times to postpone the moment when she has to get up. Instead, let's give ourselves a break and just stay in bed.Claudia Müller has been asleep for seven hours and four minutes. So, it's about time that we stopped feeling guilty for snoozing, or believing that if we don't jump out of bed singing and dancing every day of the week that we're weak. There's no benefit to setting your alarm 30 minutes earlier than needed, just to ensure you can snooze for 30 minutes each morning.
Another top tip, only set your alarm to allow for one snooze. The trick is to use your snooze time to gently awaken yourself, rather than believing you're getting solid sleep. The extra 10 minutes you get by snoozing can actually help to gently awaken the mind, rather than jolt it back to wakefulness." We wake up feeling brighter, more prepared and ready for the day.ĭavid Dinges, chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, is all for the snooze button. By letting yourself drift back to the land of nod (even just for 10 minutes) we give ourselves a second chance. When an alarm startles us out of deep sleep it can leave you feeling disorientated, confused and not in the best mood. When we sleep, our bodies have a natural time they feel it's appropriate the wake (more often than not, our alarms get there first). However, after all the bad press the snooze button's been getting, people are finally waking up to the benefits of a bit of down time in the mornings can have. There is endless research and news articles encouraging us to ban that button, making us feel guiltier and guiltier about staying in bed. By resisting a snooze, we become more alert earlier in the day, feel better about ourselves and it's even proven that you can be more productive at work. Waking up feeling sluggish, snoozing and then eventually getting out of bed gives you a bad start to the day.
#Snooze button in german trial
Experts in the art of sleeping, we have to trial our bed linen so that means getting plenty of kip. is hitting the snooze button really that bad for us? Get up early, perhaps you can get a load of washing done, make a healthy lunch, even fit in a run or exercise class before 9am. We beat ourselves up constantly about making the most out of our days. We all have those mornings where we have an internal battle with ourselves.
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