crazy ways to avoid jetlag

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i got up at 4:20 am! didn't plan to in advance (indeed didn't go to bed til near midnight), but there was a car alarm going off and i was like "hmm, if i get up this early every day i can get back to uk time before i leave and avoid jetlag". is this mentalism or genius? and what are your tips for avoiding jetlag?

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

My main one is NO NAPS once you arrive at your destination. US to UK flight times generally mirror a night of bad sleep as one tends to arrive in UK before 9am. Whatever you do, don't take a nap once you get back, and try to go to bed at a normal school-night time to ensure a proper wake-up next morning.

UK to US: same rules apply, because you fly from UK early afternoon and reach your destination at the 'same' time, seven or so hours later. Keep awake, but don't exert self too much and go to sleep at midnight or so.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Fists of toes. Though it means that later when you are fighting international terrorists (or actually common thieves (or actually "Exceptional thieves Mr McClane)) when they shoot out some glass your feet is going to hurts for a while.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

toe warmer: http://www.b3ta.com/board/564555

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

don't fly

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Command the sun.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 December 2002 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

according to my mother there is no such thing as jetlag. hah! this means that when you are traveling with her, you are NOT to enter the hotel room, jump on the bed and... sleep (like a sane person would do, I s'pose). I don't suffer from jetlag when arriving but when I come back home I feel extremely tired and sometimes even sick.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 16 December 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

a crazy way to avoid letlag: STAY HOME

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 16 December 2002 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

drink yr own urine. seriously, i read it somewhere!

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 16 December 2002 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I arrived in new york I had expresso before getting the subway into town, a couple of large cokes and a couple of pots of expresso when I go to where I was staying. A couple of big gins before going out. Stayed out till 5 ending up in a diner somewhere for soothing peppermint tea followed. Home bed up at about 9:30 for a normal day.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 16 December 2002 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Britain to the US produces manageable jet-lag: lots of coffee, lots of alcohol, bed at midnight, nice early morning. But the return journey is a killer. Landing at 7.30am, you feel like you've missed about two night's sleep, and I know of no remedy that can stop your next few days from being confused and tired and shitty. I am not drinking my own urine, though.

― Jason J, Monday, 16 December 2002 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

You have made a rod for your own back.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I found it far easier to do the US-UK direction than UK-US but nobody else seems to agree with me. I find having no caffeine whatsoever from the moment you set foot on the plane until you go to bed that night (and not taking any naps before you go to bed) helps.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 16 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i always find the US-UK journey the nightmare. i'm particularly dreading it this time as i have to catch a flight to france two days later which is going to involve getting up at 4:30am or so, and i've got two nights of heavy drinking lined up already. still, i'm young, my body'll cope...

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 16 December 2002 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

flying is like drugs (hahaha, yes, but not like that silly!) you just got to keep going when the comedown hits...or you land. last zear, coming back from new york, i landed at 7am and went straight to work, i didnt sleep on the flight, just kept rollnig after i landed.

side question...do clubbers have less of a prob with jet lag?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always just put off a night's sleep until it gets to an early but reasonable sleep time, say 10 or 11 at night, then I let myself sleep a bit extra, but again get up at a reasonablish time, mayeb 10am. After that, I'm okay.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

US-UK is far easier than UK-US, I think simply because the fight is at night and you can sleep a little (unless some boreish australian twat stands in the gangway in front of you the entire flight drinking an spouting CRAP the whole way from JFK to LHR). It just feels like a bad night's sleep rather than a 36 hour day.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I think UK to US is the easiest; the other way, you arrive in the morning & have to slog through a whole day, instead of only an afternoon! The key either way for me is just to force myself to stay awake until after dinner when I arrive, by drinking loads of coffee & staying far away from beds, comfy sofas, and anything you could lie down on.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

been up since 5 am CET and am up still at 11 pm pst (8 am cet next day) and PEOPLE I MAY HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER: water water water and stretches on the flight along with movies, then at home tacos and rum and weed. tip!

― jergïns, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

not crazy enough

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

the taco/rum/weed thing could get crazy

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, ideally

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

HAS AND CONTINUES TO BE

― jergïns, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

i could stay up forever or fall asleep in this chair. its kinda magic

― jergïns, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

i did the taco weed rum thing at a bachelor party after sleeping 3 hours after another night of partying and managed to make it till like 10 am before sleeping. Got up around 4pm and went to coney island and didn't get home till 5 am. Slept till 2ish. fine now

TACOS SUSTAIN U

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 06:16 (eighteen years ago)

Have you tried...

Vi4gra "could help with Jetlag"...

― StanM, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

yay html

― StanM, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

bloomps

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

alas no weed for me: pregnant and in japan in two days. *sigh* also, jetlag possibly worsened cause of ophelia refusing to sleep on plane and instead walk around and play with me.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

Man those urine people're so eager to get other people doing it, they'll say it cures cancer next (actually I think there are claims it reduces antioxidants or something)

― President Evil, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Lagging

Feels like I'm never going to go to sleep again

― calstars, Monday, 25 August 2014 23:07 (eleven years ago)

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