Originally Posted by WindowSeat123
(Post 24450928)
Obviously, but you are ignoring my point. I'm not talking about such short distances. :rolleyes:
I'm talking about the time zones, you cross a lot more time zones when cross the date line than you don't. Therefore the date line does have a strong effect on jet lag that way. |
My worst experience was after a huge night out in Cancun and only an hour's sleep. I then took a flight without sleeping to Miami and then onto London. I landed at 6am and turned up at the office to show willing. Unfortunately the .... had just hit the fan and I ended up doing Excel modelling until 11pm.
The last few hours I had to change the resolution down on my monitor as my vision had gotten so bad that I wasn't able to read the numbers. |
Originally Posted by 747FC
(Post 24450236)
Direction of travel and the effect on jet lag has been well-studied, and due to the natural shift in daily sleep cycle that we all experience, traveling toward the East produces the most pronounced jet lag. A well-researched area, but here are three cites:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbo...tation/jet-lag http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpt...ue-and-jet-lag http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...58f_story.html One exception to note is that I always feel terrible after going to Brazil. It's far, but not in terms of time zones, but for some reason it'll take me a few days to recover..... and I promise it's not just too many caipirinha's when I'm in Rio! |
My first trip to Europe many years ago as a college student visiting family, I made the mistake of going directly to bed after landing in the morning. Slept until 3 p.m. and never got back on track. For the next two weeks I was up all night and sleeping most of the day and very cranky.
Second worst experience was my second trip to Singapore. I landed on a Friday and thought I'd given myself enough time to acclimate before beginning 4 consecutive days of training presentations on Sunday. I did okay for the first two days, but it really hit me on Tuesday. I remember standing up in front of the room, swaying back and forth, and my participants laughing at me saying, "You're jet-lagged!" |
Mine was the return leg of an Antarctic expedition. We flew USH-SSA-DUS-LHR-BAH, and it might have taken me over a week to fully recover from the jet lag.
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I don't travel longhaul alot.
My worst experience would have to be this summer in the United States. I headed to Florida for five weeks and adjusted to their time zone. While the five hour time difference isn't alot the flight messed it up for me. Flight left at 11pm and arrived at 10am, however, it was more like 5am for me. I didn't get any sleep because I don't sleep on planes and even if I did sleep it would've only been for 3 hours. Then when I got home I slept all day so I messed it up even more. It was daylight 1 hour into the flight. After that I did try and sleep but my brain refused to switch off before 5am in the morning. Eventually I just gave up and stayed upto 3am everynight watching sitcoms.. I did get it fixed but it took me three weeks. I don't know how people adjust to 10 hours of eastbound jetlag nevermind 5. I always read people online telling you to goto bed at a normal time but they seem to forget that you will not be tired at the "normal time". I will be booking the day flight with Aer Lingus this summer. |
Originally Posted by lhrsfo
(Post 24445671)
The adage that it takes one day for each hour of time change is absolutely my experience. The trouble is that most of my 8-hour time change trips are for only six days so I'm out for basically two weeks.
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Originally Posted by pilotalan
(Post 24448528)
From Denver to Moscow in the summer. 10hr time change.
There was light until about midnight, then started getting light again at 2am. It was never dark enough, long enough, for my body to figure out what was going on, just had to gut through it. |
Originally Posted by LTBoston
(Post 24452599)
My first trip to Europe many years ago as a college student visiting family, I made the mistake of going directly to bed after landing in the morning. Slept until 3 p.m. and never got back on track. For the next two weeks I was up all night and sleeping most of the day and very cranky.
Second worst experience was my second trip to Singapore. I landed on a Friday and thought I'd given myself enough time to acclimate before beginning 4 consecutive days of training presentations on Sunday. I did okay for the first two days, but it really hit me on Tuesday. I remember standing up in front of the room, swaying back and forth, and my participants laughing at me saying, "You're jet-lagged!" |
SIN-LHR-DEN last July and I caught something nasty on the plane. Jet lagged for week+ and in and out of the hospital for 3 days.
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Back in 2008 when two trips ran back to back.
- Thursday, flew a redeye PHX-CLT - Friday, flew CLT-DTW, went out to Ann Arbor to see my brother - Saturday, flew DTW-BWI, drove to DC, saw an Orioles game, drove back to Baltimore - Sunday, flew BWI-DTW, then DTW-ORD-DEN-PHX - Monday, flew PHX-CLE for a work trip When I woke up in Cleveland that Tuesday morning I felt dead. It was one of the hardest days I've ever had to get through. I had planned the visit to my brother and our pop down to DC for the game before I knew about the work trip. In retrospect I should have just flown to Cleveland from Detroit. |
A long weekend NYC - HKG (cash in AA miles for one econ seat, companion flies free on Cathay Pacific) -- we were up at something like 5AM, drank all of the in-room coffee before the breakfast room opened, and were nodding off at early dinners.
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Thankfully, I am fairly immune to jetlag, as I only require one night's sleep to fully adjust. I can also sleep anywhere, regardless of noise levels, which helps immensely.
Unfortunately, my wife, with whom I frequently travel on longer trips, is affected by time changes as little as 5 or 6 hours for several days. |
Originally Posted by brendog
(Post 24491204)
Thankfully, I am fairly immune to jetlag, as I only require one night's sleep to fully adjust. I can also sleep anywhere, regardless of noise levels, which helps immensely.
Unfortunately, my wife, with whom I frequently travel on longer trips, is affected by time changes as little as 5 or 6 hours for several days. You're very lucky, and rare, if you can really adjust that quickly. :) |
I have little problem with 8-10 hours going to Europe/Middle East, and no problem going to HKG, but coming back to YVR seemed to take a long time to recover from, maybe 10 days or so. I was shocked, although I had read about this problem.
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