jet lag

SLEPT FOR 3 HOURS TODAY, BAD NEWS, SO AWAKE RIGHT NOW

should i read enders game again?????

no

:(

i think i have neuromancer in my bag too. i just finished name of the rose.

im going to read enders game anyway and no one can stop me

stop him

youd never make it in battleschool s1ocki

Max, your situation reads uncannily like mine. Last night I slept only from 2 til 5. Tonight I slept from 9 til 12 and now I'm stuck in dreadful alertness again. Jet lag has nowt to do with it.

yeah im 9 hours away from where i usually live so jet lag has a lot to do with it for me. u_u

9?! Is America that wide or are you overseas?

im in florence

omg! i envy you a little.

uhhhhhhhhh

2nd day is the worst
how do people do this and go to meetings and events and make sense? i guess they get used to it and maybe all their cells are supercharged with high-altitude speediness

my cells i think they want to just ride horses or dog-sleds or bikes :/

When I get it when I arrive at a destination it's not easy, but coming home I don't mind the feeling at all.

I used to be a lot better at handling jet lag when I was living abroad, but right now I feel broken. The thing that gets me about jet lag, besides the debilitating fatigue, is that surreal dazy feeling. I also always get a little depressed the first day or so. Always have a vague feeling of despair.

I think I never notice this because in adulthood I have been vaguely full of despair and dazed all the time

I'm not used to being healthy and psychologically up-and-up so a half dozen time zones or so is a drop in the bucket

Life in perpetual jet lag would not be fun.

who said life was supposed to be fun? suck it up, wimp.

that's it, I'm taking a nap.

it makes seeing hard

and causes buzzing in ears

Jet lag is for wimps! All it takes is a little forward planning and fortitude. When I came back from Australia I landed in the morning, did a full day's work, celebrated my birthday in the evening, and was fine the next day.

we are all different

And special

and unique

sometimes plagued by insomnia

a vague sense of dread

so incredibly surly today guys

:/

is jet lag due to the altitude/pressure/speed/noise/etc or specifically due to the rapid time zone change? like if you fly from florida to brazil do you get jet lag?

i think it's a combination, plus other travel-related things like not eating what you usually eat, different sleep schedule, not exercising as much, different air, i don't know

i get bus lag and car lag too
usually i just deal; today not so well

"The condition is not linked to the length of flight, but to the transmeridian (i.e., east-west) distance traveled. Hence, a ten-hour flight between Frankfurt and Johannesburg (going south, staying roughly on the same meridian) is much less inducive of jet lag than a five-hour flight between New York and Los Angeles or vice versa. Also, the International Date Line should not be confused as contributing to jet lag, as the maximum possible disruption is plus or minus 12 hours. If the time difference between two locations is greater than 12 hours, subtract that number from 24. (For example, a 20 hour time difference equals 4 hours of jet lag). Layovers can complicate this simple arithmetic, however.

Jet lag can be especially difficult near the north and south poles, where there are extreme periods of daylight or darkness, depending on the time of year, which often causes insomnia or hypersomnia."

it's something to do with upsetting your regular day/night body clock, because shift workers are prone to forms of it too.

so i think it's only something measured by the time zone changing, rather than the journey of the flight. But riding a long flight straight south could have other exhaustive effects i guess.

'journey of the flight' idiot, i meant was 'duration of the flight'

Seeing the sun set twice in one day fucked me up to no end.

How did you manage that? Can't have been flying E->W, planes don't go faster than the earth turns...

Except for Concorde.

mind blown

I left Sydney on a Saturday afternoon, flying straight into the oncoming night. Crossed the dateline and landed in Los Angeles Saturday morning. Long delays and layovers had me flying back to Little Rock in the evening where I saw a Saturday sunset once again.

The worst part is the "going back in time" part and then suddenly going forward through the time zones once I was back in the USA.

Also, the different lengths of day between lateral hemispheres gets in my head a bit.

Cooool.

This thing will make you go mad:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1214/549270473_dd013101a8_o.jpg

haha
ohman
i was thinking about this actually on my flight b/c they didn't even have this option on the screen anymore

IT TOOK AN HOUR.... MAYBE A DAY...

I never look at that thing until I'm confident it's been at least a few hours.

what's up

i am in another dimension right now, and all i want is potato croquettes

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, February 16, 2004 11:22 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

hahahahha plus ça change. do i only think about potato croquettes when i'm jet lagged???

it's really hard ot force yourself to stay awake when you're watching five movies a day!!

ugh jet lag is awful. slept 1am-5am today. what the hell am i supposed to do

i think the second night is the worstest.

maybe i'll go see the french connection.

i have no idea where i was when i started this thread, only that i was in the exact same situation, being, up at 5am and annoyed about it and obsessing over potato croquettes.

FOR THE RECORD i didn't nap yesterday.

and that includes during the manoel de oliveira movie which was the most boring thing i have ever seen.

I've been getting over it for the past few days. Definitely something enervating.

i don't get why i'm up early! shouldn't that be like the opposite of what should be happening?

i hate jet lag

I went on a 5-day cruise over last New Year and the jet leg on return to the UK from the US was combined with the horrible feeling that the world was still gently rocking. This lasted several days. It was horrific.

wow that's ruff!

and heeeeeeeeeerrrrrre we go the other way. gonna make a bolognese to keep my mind off falling asleep

did +10 hours on saturday/sunday. six hours good sleep on the plane (so good i slept through two meals being served). no naps required for two days. bed around 11pm, woke around 7am. this is better than my usual schedule, which should have been a clue that something was up. aaaaaaaand wednesday I wake up at 4am local time with crushing headache. feels like a really bad hangover. fuuuuuuuuuuck.

weird. for me, if i get through the first day w/o a nap it's all (ahem) cake from there

wahahah it's 11 am and I want to go to bed wahahaha

that's my usual workday

Thought I was over it easy after my Saturday flight and Sunday rest -- then the headache from hell arrived on Monday...

back in jersey dyao?

yep yep

waking up with a splitting headache, how is it not awesome?

Means that I wake up on time for work for at least a few weeks.

heyyyy

I actually like being awake at night, you can read and listen to music quietly. The hard part is the afternoon when you pass out in front of clients :(

Stayed up 24 hours

Slept 3 hours

Ready for a whole new day

slept three hours Saturday night in NYC and welp hi

I compare jet lag offsets to semitones. Flying to Asia from DC and being 10-13 hours off is fine. Flying to Europe and being 5-7 hours off is brutal. 3 hours is trivia, which doesn't hold up the analogy, I guess.

had the worst jetlag of my life last week, after a 30 hour flight (including connections) from South India. bolt upright at 5am, at 2pm i would hit a wall of exhaustion and it took all my effort not to crash at work, then in bed by 7-8 pm. took 3 full days to shake it off

I can't believe you only took 3 days for that. how long were you over?

2 weeks

i may still have been jet lagged on Saturday, couldn't really tell. got back Tuesday late afternoon so really 4 days

I also somehow didn't get 'tlagged on the way there? that way we flew direct, 20 hours

that's my experience too, flying west across the pacific and having the time be basically the opposite of whatever time it is at home is like, whatever!

this is interesting tbh

not sure i dong prefer it to my normal state, in which i almost never feel that ive had enough sleep (nb this feeling would be 100% correct)

it genuinely feels like i fell into the back of the time/space couch tho, its not just a sleep thing. totally displaced. are there drugs i should try while my mind is this open?

because of the dong

It’s not easy but I try to get to sleep