why do we do that thing where we wake up early roll over for 30 seconds recheck the time and its been hours

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i never really understood how this worked because even when you have a dreamless sleep you still know you were sleeping

what i am talking about specifically is when you will wake up at say 2am get annoyed you only slept 3-4 hours roll over to go back to sleep but “cant” then recheck your phone 1-5 minutes later and its suddenly 6-7am the entire process only feeling like it was minutes with no memory of sleeping at all

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Answer 1

Also if you hit “snooze” on the alarm (give a 10 minute snooze) but it *feels like* it had beeped again 10 *seconds* later!