By @TobyChilliShow
Apr 19, 2021
Want to break your snooze button habit? Changing the sound of your alarm could be the fix. A
newstudy finds that lots of people deal with “sleep inertia” - or feeling groggy and not alert because they’re not ready to wake up yet – and simply swapping the sound you wake up to may help change that.
Researchers with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia suggest trading the buzzing or ringing of an alarm clock for something more melodic. They found waking up to your favorite song or anything with a catchy tune is more likely to help you feel well-rested and alert when it starts playing. Study participants tested it out by doing a game-like activity immediately after waking up to measure alertness and they had faster and more accurate responses after melodic alarm sounds than with classic alarm sounds.