#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep

I've thought about this quite deeply. It sounds a stupid thing to spend cognitive energy on thinking about, but why does the snooze button exist? I actually think it's quite profound. The snooze button existed because we are always as a first world society. Carrying some form of a sleep debt. Because the alarm goes off and your instant urge is

Let me sleep longer. And the snooze button, I think, is the perennial expression of the human frustration Of this thing called A chronic Lingering.

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