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Landed at LHR this morning after 2 weeks in SE Asia, a 7hr time difference to here... tried to last out the day without a sleep, but crashed at 3pm for a hour or so, now sitting here at 6pm and damn I feel weird, it really does seem like it's 1am in the bloody morning!
Any tips for the jet lagged?
Yeah don't do Vegas jet lagged, get some sleep before venturing out, or you'll fall asleep in the middle of ceasars palace 😳
Beer.
Seriously, eat at normal (local) times and set your alarm to wake you up tomorrow (don't be tempted to try and lie in).
Lay off coffee and the like and try some gentle excercise.
if your just sitting around the house, you're ****ed cause its too easy to just fall asleep, you need a few days of being out or being down the pub or something to keep you awake until its normal bed time.
Too late now - but the latest theory is not to eat on the flight and perhaps for several hours before. The idea is to starve yourself to the point of real hunger. Us "rich westerners" never really get hungry because we eat regularly. Real hunger kicks something off in our bodies and gets our normal circadian cycles back into action.
Came back from NZ recently, ~25hr trip, landed early morning, stayed awake til about 7pm, crashed and slept for 12 hrs. Got up and went to work in the morning feeling fine. Barely slept on the two flights too.
Poor thing. Try working nights, its like 12 hour time difference, but in addition its light all night and dark all day.
Then try swapping back to normal in 24 hours; I do this 5 or 6 times a year.
Jetlag? Pah.
I got it in Canada last year. flight left Manchester in the morning, 8-9 hours in the air but still only 1pm when we arrived. Didn't manage to make it through to a normal time that evening. But ended up getting up at 5am local time.
Mrs_drummer never quite got into the local time zones the whole 2 weeks we were there.
Coming back should've been worse with an overnight flight but I managed to make it through to a normal time in the evening. Still felt strange for a couple of days though
I suffer from DSPS - I spend my life jet lagged, MTFU 🙂
DSPS, what's that then?
Get some melatonin. Synthetic sleep hormone. Works a treat for me and Mrs BigJohn (although she doesn't believe it - she thinks its just a coincidence that she hasn't got jet-lag).
Landed at 5 this morning from Hong Kong and not feeling too bad. I find it worse going the other way. Left there last night at midnight having been awake since 3 in the morning. I probably managed about 4 hours sleep on the plane another hour in the taxi home and then another hour once the kids had gone to school.