SIN-LAX flight : sleep strategy ?
 

Not sure if this has been asked before..
I'm going to fly to USA for the first time, and am wondering how should the sleeping strategy be during the flight, to minimize jetlag upon arrival.
SQ12 : SIN-NRT, 09:25-17:30 -> probably short nap during this flight ?
SQ12 : NRT-LAX, 19:15-13:25 -> when should be the right time to do the long sleep?
SQ1 : SFO-HKG, 01:00-06:35 -> seems to be whole 14-hours flight in darkness? should the long sleep be put towards the end of flight?
SQ1: HKG-SIN, 08:00-11:50 -> doesn't matter anymore, just a short flight anyway :)

Thanks in advance for the advice from you all..

I try to put myself in destination time ASAP during the trip. Doesn't always work, but that's my goal.

I'd try to sleep for as much of the trans-Pacific flights as possible.

For SQ12 I stay awake for the entire SIN-NRT sector and try and sleep after the dinner service is completed on NRT-LAX. This way I wake up 2hrs before arrival (roughly 10:30~11AM LAX time).

SQ1 SFO-HKG is a long flight, I try and stay awake for the first few hours and sleep until the pre-arrival meal for HKG. If I sleep to early on this sector and stay wide awake for HKG-SIN I end up tired in the early afternoon in Singapore.

Enjoy your trip!

SIN-LAX flight : sleep strategy ?
 

Use " no jet lag" tablets

Don't confuse getting enough sleep with getting over jet lag. Jet lag comes from the need to reset your body's clock after what will be, in your case, a 9-hour time change. Getting enough sleep helps your body recover from all sorts of stresses, so it's a good idea, but it doesn't deal with the jet lag issue directly.

I find that on trans-pacifics headed east bound, it's best to follow the first response in this thread. Try to reset your body clock to the destination as you fly. Try to sleep ASAP out of NRT and force yourself to be awake early morning time LAX on the HKG to LAX flight otherwise you may find sleep difficult the first night in the US.

This is what we do with us and the kids, but sometimes we are still up until 2am trying to sleep.

Or just press US$8.79 into a friendly FA's hands in return for a cup of water. You'll get the same quantity of No Jet Lag's purported ingredients -- that is, none -- and you won't be supporting quack medicine.

At the dilutions No Jet Lag lists, you'd have "...to consume 10^41 pills (a billion times the mass of the Earth)... to consume a single molecule of the original substance" (source).

+1

Wow. I've never even heard of this product, but this is still good to know in case anyone ever asks me about it.

^^ I might sleep 5 or 6 hours, watch a video for an hour or so then sleep some more.

Sleep SIN-NRT and nap NRT-LAX and than same in reverse. Sleep to HKG and nap to SIN. That is my technique.

Many if not most homeopathic remedies are so dilute that they are no more likely to contain a single molecule of their "ingredients" than any random drop of water is. They are placebos.

Thanks for all your suggestions...^
Seems that most are suggesting to sleep in the earlier part of NRT-LAX flight (and later part of SFO-HKG flight), which will be consistent with the idea of adjusting to the destination time zone immediately.