I Don't Care What Experts Say, Hitting The Snooze Button Is A Phenomenal Feeling
Maudib. Getty Images.I'm sure Mel Robbins has a ton of degrees with acronyms on her wall from schools that would only let me buy their t-shirts instead of attend them. I'm sure her PHD and MBA and IOU and FICA degrees are all real nice and she worked real hard for them. She paid a lot of money to go to those schools, read a lot of books without any pictures in them, and sacrificed many nights in the library instead of dancing in a circle with her gals at a bar or a sorority party. She deserves all the praise in the world for the knowledge she has compared to me. She can actually help people. I can tell you on command Richard Belding's brother was named Rod Belding and the 2008 Final Four featured all 1 seeds. She's much smarter that me … I get that. But this snooze button theory, while probably medically correct is a crock of horseshit.
I understand that hitting the snooze is a bad idea. I hear all the stuff she is saying. It's bad for your mental state. You aren't ever really asleep. Yada yada yada. I'll even admit what she says there where you wake up in a panic because you were asleep deeply for 9 minutes. I admit it, it's true.
What she doesn't sayin the clip is how glorious those 9 minutes are. How unbelievably great a feeling it is to wake up at 6:37 and hit snooze for the next alarm at 6:45. What she doesn't describe is how the pillow feels softer for those 8 minutes, the bed is softer (or harder if u like it like that like a weirdo), the blankets are warmer, and your troubles are all gone. From 6:37.01-6:44.59 you have no worries in the world. You just know you get 8 minutes more of uninterrupted rest. You get 8 minutes where not 1 thing is wrong. You are at total peace. It's literally magical. That extra time of sleep on the snooze is remarkable. I don't care what that lady says. I'll always be a snooze button guy and anyone with a brain should be.
While the snooze button sleep is great, there is one sleep that is a notch above that. It happens for only a certain period of your life but man when it did it was UNBEATABLE. I am talking about the sleep you get when you have to wake up early to do something and go back into bed right after it's done. This really only happened in HS and college for me. For instance, one time while home for the summer from college my dad had a car problem and needed a favor. I wasn't working yet and I said I would do it. We woke up at like 6am and I made the 10 minute ride to the ferry followed by the 10 minute ride back. It was a nice little ride, talked about stuff, listened to the radio, etc. The best part about it was the entire round trip I was DREAMING of crawling back into bed because I had nothing to do the rest of the morning. When I finally got back into that bed it was almost orgasmic.
The same applies with college when you had an 8am class and none the rest of the day, or one in the afternoon. That sleep was magical. Being able to get back into the bed is so awesome. Something is just different about being miserable while woken up early for a task you didn't want to do then getting back in the bed. Sometimes I still think about those sleeps and being able to do that, and I miss it. I miss it dearly.
I'm interested to see how these polls come out …
