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Does flying to a different timezone incapacitate you or do you adjust in a few days? Does daylight savings time cause you problems or do you adjust like everyo

by rmah 13y ago

Does flying to a different timezone incapacitate you or do you adjust in a few days? Does daylight savings time cause you problems or do you adjust like everyone else? If you can adjust to those things, you can adjust your "normal" sleep cycle and you don't have this rare condition. The reason you have a hard time getting up "early" is that you go to sleep too late. Just go to sleep an hour earlier than "normal". Too hard? Impossible? If that's so, how do you do it every year when we go off DST?

jaggederest 13y ago
Well in my case, both of those things do really screw me over pretty hard. I have to allocate a couple days to reset my schedule on any timezone change or the 'spring forward'. That said, it's not about going to bed earlier, at least for me. You can't solve it that way. What you have to do is stay up later and later, and eventually loop over to a 'normal' time. This involves several days of non-traditional sleeping hours or extreme exhaustion.
- eridius 13y ago
  Looping over is precisely what I do any time I have to fly east (flying west is a lot easier). It's not fun, but it sure beats the alternative.
eridius 13y ago
What makes you qualified to pass judgement? For reference, according to http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/delayed-sleep-phase-syndrome.html http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/delayed-sleep-phas... these are the official criteria for diagnosing Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome: 1. Patient has chronic difficulty falling asleep at desired time to meet their daily schedules - work, school, etc. Typically patient reports inability to sleep before 2 to 6 am. 2. The patient reports having dealt with these symptoms for at least six months, mostly for multiple years. 3 When not required to maintain their schedule--i.e. weekends, holidays, etc.--patient sleeps without difficulty, and will awaken spontaneously after a sleep period of normal length.
quotefoundslash 13y ago
Now imagine being jetlagged every single day of your life, and then imagine you can't explain "I'm jetlagged". Ever.

by rmah 13y ago

jaggederest 13y ago

Well in my case, both of those things do really screw me over pretty hard. I have to allocate a couple days to reset my schedule on any timezone change or the 'spring forward'. That said, it's not about going to bed earlier, at least for me. You can't solve it that way. What you have to do is stay up later and later, and eventually loop over to a 'normal' time. This involves several days of non-traditional sleeping hours or extreme exhaustion.

eridius 13y ago
Looping over is precisely what I do any time I have to fly east (flying west is a lot easier). It's not fun, but it sure beats the alternative.

eridius 13y ago

What makes you qualified to pass judgement? For reference, according to http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/delayed-sleep-phase-syndrome.html http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/delayed-sleep-phas... these are the official criteria for diagnosing Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome: 1. Patient has chronic difficulty falling asleep at desired time to meet their daily schedules - work, school, etc. Typically patient reports inability to sleep before 2 to 6 am. 2. The patient reports having dealt with these symptoms for at least six months, mostly for multiple years. 3 When not required to maintain their schedule--i.e. weekends, holidays, etc.--patient sleeps without difficulty, and will awaken spontaneously after a sleep period of normal length.

quotefoundslash 13y ago

Now imagine being jetlagged every single day of your life, and then imagine you can't explain "I'm jetlagged". Ever.