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Nurse Issues Warning For Anyone Who Sets Multiple Alarms To Wake Them Up In The Morning
A nurse has shared an important message for anyone who relies on multiple alarms to get out of bed each morning.
For plenty of people, especially night owls, busy parents, or anyone running low on sleep, setting several alarms can feel like the safest way to make sure they don’t oversleep.
While it may seem like an effective strategy for getting up on time, experts say the habit could actually be working against you.
Nurse Jordan Bruss recently went viral on TikTok after encouraging followers to rethink their morning alarm routine.
The video sparked concern among viewers, many of whom admitted they depend on repeated alarms to start the day.
One person commented: “If I could wake up with just one alarm, do you think I would use so many?”
Another wrote: “I can’t just ‘get up.’”
“Okay, well it’s either that or I don’t go to work,” added a third.
Nurse shares simple solution for alarm snoozers
In the viral video, Bruss offers straightforward advice for people who struggle to get out of bed in the morning.
Her message is simple, even if many people find it difficult to follow: “When that alarm goes off in the morning, get up!”
For those who regularly oversleep, she suggests placing an alarm clock or phone farther away from the bed so you have to physically get up to switch it off.
Sleep coach Beatrix Schmidt also recommends building a morning routine that gives you something positive to look forward to, whether that’s reading, listening to music, or another enjoyable activity, just not while staying under the covers.
“Why don’t you intentionally do something that actually brings some joy into your morning routine?” the sleep coach says.
Both experts stress that nobody should expect to feel fully alert the second they wake up. As Schmidt explains: “Remember, waking up is a transition, not a switch!”
Sleep coach reveals extreme alarm habit
Bruss isn’t the only expert encouraging people to ditch the snooze button.
Schmidt says she used to rely on two or three alarms herself while dealing with long-term insomnia.
Over time, she noticed the same behavior among many of her clients. One particularly extreme example involved someone setting ‘over 20 alarms, each five minutes apart.’
According to Schmidt, the habit can create problems during the final hours of sleep, leaving people feeling less refreshed when they eventually get out of bed.
What happens when your sleep gets interrupted
The main concern, Schmidt says, is sleep fragmentation.
According to Eight Sleep, sleep fragmentation refers to repeated short interruptions throughout the night that can result in excessive daytime tiredness.
“Having this fragmentation at the end can really affect how energized you feel in the morning,” Schmidt says.
She describes a familiar pattern: a person wakes up to the first alarm, presses snooze, and drifts back to sleep. The second alarm sounds, perhaps prompting them to turn on a light before dozing off once more. Then a final alarm eventually forces them out of bed.
Instead of getting restorative rest, the body repeatedly cycles between waking and sleeping.
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Experts issue warning about repeated morning alarms
Beyond disrupting sleep, repeatedly hitting snooze may have a wider impact on the body.
Bruss explains that multiple alarms can interrupt rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, an important sleep stage associated with several physical and mental processes.
According to Medical News Today, REM sleep is when the brain and body experience changes including rapid eye movements, increased heart rate, and elevated blood pressure.
Disturbing this stage of sleep can contribute to sleep inertia, the groggy, disoriented feeling many people experience after waking, along with increased daytime drowsiness, ongoing fatigue, mood changes, and higher cortisol levels, which WebMD describes as ‘your body’s main stress hormone.’
Bruss also notes that every alarm can trigger the body’s natural ‘fight or flight’ response.
That surge of adrenaline creates stress, and when it happens several times every morning, the effects may begin to accumulate.
According to the nurse, repeated alarm-related stress could potentially contribute to long-term stress, depression, cardiovascular issues, and even weight gain.
As Bruss puts it: “Don’t keep traumatizing yourself!”
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