This one hurts.
, hoping for a few more minutes of precious sleep. But can this habit make you even more tired? That's the question POPSUGAR asked a sleep doctor., MD, a neurologist at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine and author of."By hitting snooze, you are reversing the process, and as a result, the brain doesn't know what to do, so you may feel sleepy and hungover longer into the day.
That's not to say that dozing off won't feel good in that moment — but remember that it's temporary."It feels good to fall back asleep because serotonin is released, but it's really not ideal," Dr. Barone told POPSUGAR. And that's true even if it's just for another five minutes."The amount you snooze doesn't matter that much — the principle of the brain not being an on-off switch is more important," he said.
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