Snoozing your alarm is bad for your health, according to experts
As the mornings get darker and colder, the temptation to hit the snooze button on your alarm clock and stay in bed for an extra few minutes becomes more and more enticing. But, is it possible to train yourself to be better at waking up? Sleep experts have explained that constantly snoozing your alarm in the morning - creating a cycle of waking up and falling back to sleep - can impact your body and mind. They have offered some useful tips about how to overcome this habit. How does our body respond to constant snoozing? Not getting up when your alarm first sounds can really throw off your morning and disrupt your plan for a fresh start. "Allowing yourself to hit snooze (or setting multiple alarms) is a very bad idea because it gets your brain used to the fact that your alarm doesn't really mean you have to get up, but rather that it's time to go back to sleep again before the next alarm," explains Dr Lindsay Browning, psychologist and sleep expert at And So To Bed....