and unique
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes plagued by insomnia
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
a vague sense of dread
so incredibly surly today guys
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Will M., Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"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."
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ste, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'journey of the flight' idiot, i meant was 'duration of the flight'
― Ste, Thursday, 3 January 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Seeing the sun set twice in one day fucked me up to no end.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
How did you manage that? Can't have been flying E->W, planes don't go faster than the earth turns...
― ledge, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Except for Concorde.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
mind blown
― Super Cub, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Cooool.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
This thing will make you go mad:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1214/549270473_dd013101a8_o.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
haha ohman i was thinking about this actually on my flight b/c they didn't even have this option on the screen anymore
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 3 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
IT TOOK AN HOUR.... MAYBE A DAY...
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 January 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I never look at that thing until I'm confident it's been at least a few hours.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 3 January 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
what's up
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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???
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the second night is the worstest.
maybe i'll go see the french connection.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
FOR THE RECORD i didn't nap yesterday.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
and that includes during the manoel de oliveira movie which was the most boring thing i have ever seen.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been getting over it for the past few days. Definitely something enervating.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 July 2008 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't get why i'm up early! shouldn't that be like the opposite of what should be happening?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate jet lag
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― krakow, Sunday, 6 July 2008 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
wow that's ruff!
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
and heeeeeeeeeerrrrrre we go the other way. gonna make a bolognese to keep my mind off falling asleep
― s1ocki, Saturday, 19 July 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
weird. for me, if i get through the first day w/o a nap it's all (ahem) cake from there
― french fried (jeepski), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
wahahah it's 11 am and I want to go to bed wahahaha
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
that's my usual workday
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Thought I was over it easy after my Saturday flight and Sunday rest -- then the headache from hell arrived on Monday...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
back in jersey dyao?
― Aerosol, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yep yep
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
waking up with a splitting headache, how is it not awesome?
― dyao, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Means that I wake up on time for work for at least a few weeks.
― jellybean (back again) (Jill), Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
heyyyy
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
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 :(
― i hold the kwok and you hold the kee (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
Stayed up 24 hours
Slept 3 hours
Ready for a whole new day
― 龜, Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
slept three hours Saturday night in NYC and welp hi
― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 15 May 2017 00:11 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
I can't believe you only took 3 days for that. how long were you over?
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 15 May 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
2 weeks
― flopson, Monday, 15 May 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
i may still have been jet lagged on Saturday, couldn't really tell. got back Tuesday late afternoon so really 4 days
― flopson, Monday, 15 May 2017 01:29 (seven years ago) link
I also somehow didn't get 'tlagged on the way there? that way we flew direct, 20 hours
― flopson, Monday, 15 May 2017 01:30 (seven years ago) link
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!
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 15 May 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
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?
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
because of the dong
It’s not easy but I try to get to sleep
― calstars, Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link