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re: Jet Lag Strategies
Posted on 2/20/23 at 1:00 pm to SaintsTiger
Posted on 2/20/23 at 1:00 pm to SaintsTiger
1. The biggest thing that screws most people up is having your flight land at the destination at the wrong time. For instance, when flying to Tokyo, I can select a flight that lands nearly in Tokyo (Haneda) at around 8AM. This means I have to force myself to stay awake until at least 6 or 7PM to have a chance at normalization. Chances are not great at pulling that off.
However, I can also book a direct flight that lands at Narita at about 3PM. Then, I take the bus to the hotel, about 90 minutes. By the time I've unpacked, grabbed "dinner" it's nearly 7PM. The first morning, I'll always wake up at 3 or 4AM, but I'm adjusted within 12-18 hours of landing.
2. Once you board, set your watch to destination time. The only time I allow myself to sleep (in coach, of course) until it's about 9AM at my destination. After that, I stay awake for the rest of the flight.
3. I use booze to sleep. Always been skeptical of pills, because I don't want to come to while I have no pants and I'm being frog-marched off the plane after my drugged behavior forces a diversion to Boise.
However, I can also book a direct flight that lands at Narita at about 3PM. Then, I take the bus to the hotel, about 90 minutes. By the time I've unpacked, grabbed "dinner" it's nearly 7PM. The first morning, I'll always wake up at 3 or 4AM, but I'm adjusted within 12-18 hours of landing.
2. Once you board, set your watch to destination time. The only time I allow myself to sleep (in coach, of course) until it's about 9AM at my destination. After that, I stay awake for the rest of the flight.
3. I use booze to sleep. Always been skeptical of pills, because I don't want to come to while I have no pants and I'm being frog-marched off the plane after my drugged behavior forces a diversion to Boise.
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Posted on 2/21/23 at 8:15 am to LemmyLives
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3. I use booze to sleep.
This is all fine and good until you overdo it and then have to sweat it out during the inevitable two hour customs wait.
Source: nervous flyer who's consumption is proportional to the length of the flight lol.
Posted on 2/24/23 at 10:30 am to LemmyLives
Following this as we have a couple of LONG flight trips for the 1st time this summer.
First is a European trip, which I'm not so worried about. It's basically leave US at night, fly to Zurich and get there in their morning 8 or so hours later, so I figure it's basically just sleep on the plane.
The ones I'm worried about are the ones for our trip "down under" later in the summer. We leave San Francisco at 11:10 their time (which will seem like 1:10 AM my [Louisiana] time) so I figure I will be ready to sleep right after take-off.
Problem is that's a 13+ hour flight, and after checking it, we will pretty much be in the dark the whole time. Even if I can get 8 or so hours of sleep in, I'll still wake up in the dark, with 5 or more hours to go before we arrive in Auckland, NZ at 7:00 AM their time. It will be really screwed up.
The trip back will be even weirder. We will leave Sydney Australia at 7:00 AM their time, which means I will have been up since probably 4:30 AM their time. As we fly northeast over the Pacific, the daylight will pass quickly; we'll hit sunset at about 3:00 PM Sydney time, and then we'll fly through the 'night' and will land in Los Angeles shortly before dawn there. The leg back to MSY will put us home at 1:00 in the afternoon THE SAME DATE WE LEFT at 7:00 AM in Sydney.
Freaky. Any tips?
First is a European trip, which I'm not so worried about. It's basically leave US at night, fly to Zurich and get there in their morning 8 or so hours later, so I figure it's basically just sleep on the plane.
The ones I'm worried about are the ones for our trip "down under" later in the summer. We leave San Francisco at 11:10 their time (which will seem like 1:10 AM my [Louisiana] time) so I figure I will be ready to sleep right after take-off.
Problem is that's a 13+ hour flight, and after checking it, we will pretty much be in the dark the whole time. Even if I can get 8 or so hours of sleep in, I'll still wake up in the dark, with 5 or more hours to go before we arrive in Auckland, NZ at 7:00 AM their time. It will be really screwed up.
The trip back will be even weirder. We will leave Sydney Australia at 7:00 AM their time, which means I will have been up since probably 4:30 AM their time. As we fly northeast over the Pacific, the daylight will pass quickly; we'll hit sunset at about 3:00 PM Sydney time, and then we'll fly through the 'night' and will land in Los Angeles shortly before dawn there. The leg back to MSY will put us home at 1:00 in the afternoon THE SAME DATE WE LEFT at 7:00 AM in Sydney.
Freaky. Any tips?
This post was edited on 2/24/23 at 10:31 am
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