When the alarm goes off in the morning, do you press the snooze button to sleep for another five minutes? A European study found that about 70% of people used to press the snooze button and delayed waking up for about 22 minutes on average.
Further experiments found that those who used the snooze function did not perform worse on cognitive tests after waking up, and were even slightly better in terms of reaction speed and attention span, and there was no significant increase in blood pressure and cortisol (the stress hormone) index, which means that being bedridden does not cause additional physiological stress.
