I don't see the issue people have with jetlag when traveling. both on the way to canada and back, I had absolutely no problems adjusting. already the first night I slept at normal hours. how I did it? simple: little sleep.
going there, I slept 2 hours the night before, and only one hour on the plane. had a full day, and ended up going to sleep at 11.30 pm local canadian time, which meant that I had been up for about 25 hours. woke up at 9.30, and had no problems the rest of the time, though I felt slightly dizzy at times the first two days.
the way back was something similar. slept 3 hours the night before, had quite a full day (going to the House of Worship outside of chicago), and then slept 5h on the plane to london. when I got back home, I slept at 10.30 and got up at 6.30, after this bizarre day. went to work the day after, no problems!
going there, I slept 2 hours the night before, and only one hour on the plane. had a full day, and ended up going to sleep at 11.30 pm local canadian time, which meant that I had been up for about 25 hours. woke up at 9.30, and had no problems the rest of the time, though I felt slightly dizzy at times the first two days.
the way back was something similar. slept 3 hours the night before, had quite a full day (going to the House of Worship outside of chicago), and then slept 5h on the plane to london. when I got back home, I slept at 10.30 and got up at 6.30, after this bizarre day. went to work the day after, no problems!
It could be easier when you're young. It took one of the elderly ladies (from the USA) I met on our pilgrimage in the Holy Land a couple of days to understand where she was and what she was doing there. A bit overdoing from my side maybe, but it was really hard.
ReplyDeleteHow's your pink doing?
interestingly enough, it seems older people have an easier time:
ReplyDeletethe wiki page on jetlag cites this paper and there they seem to have found that younger people suffer worse.
the pinky is slowly recovering... it'll take a while.