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Re: Sometimes it's better to say nothing (Scripting News)

citizentools — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:46:07 -0000

The Argonne Labs anti-jet lag diet has always worked for me, going west to east (usually DC to Frankfurt):
http://www.anl.gov/Media_Ce...
I still wake up at 5am local time, but with thanks to Argonne, I can get back to sleep easily.

East to west has generally not been a problem, though I find that I'm more attuned to sunrise. I can usually sleep right through sunrise, but w/jet lag, it's more likely to wake me up.

Re: Sometimes it's better to say nothing (Scripting News)

kevinmarks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:14:51 -0000

The trick with jetlag is to realise that we naturally have 2 sleepy periods a day - one at night, and one midafternoon - siesta time. We also have 2 'forbidden zones' where we can't go to sleep at all (around an hour after we normally wake up, and around an hour before we go to bed). See http://homepage.mac.com/kev... for the diagram from Steve Strogatz's book Sync. Applying this to jetlag, if it's a long time change (US to Europe) you should swap the night sleeptime for siesta time. If it's a small one, an hour or two, going to bed early will work less well than waking up early to shift. Staying up a bit late is usually easier, as you can still fall asleep in the night-time zone.

Re: Sometimes it's better to say nothing (Scripting News)

JadedMan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:12:35 -0000

I follow your west-to-east regime, taking morning flights from the east coast. Usually, I lose some sleep the night before I fly, so I fall asleep as soon as I hit the hotel. I don't set an alarm, just let myself sleep as much as I need. So many people take a night flight, get maybe 3 or 4 hours sleep at best, and then stumble around in a haze the first day on the ground. Imagine all the bad business decisions made as a result.

Coming back, I tend to arrive pretty late, also, but only because I try to book afternoon departures. I hate needing to wake up in the middle of the night to go catch a morning flight from a European airport back to the U.S. Best bet is to avoid scheduling much of anything the first day home.

Re: Sometimes it's better to say nothing (Scripting News)

Mark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:10 -0000

Dave, you are a thought leader. A bunch of us are hoping you will blog about real-time search, and new hash tag features soon xx