Monday
Oct272008
JET LAG! Home from China.
Oct 27, 2008 at 6:06 AM 
15 hour direct flight from Hong Kong to Newark, NJ. I watched the "Love Guru" with Mike Meyers like a mental patient. I could not sleep tonight. Jet Lag is a bitch. You wake up, and you think your home is a hotel...
Jet lag, or desynchronosis, is a temporary condition that some people experience following air travel across several time zones in a short period of time. This causes the traveler's internal clock to be out of sync with the external environment. People experiencing jet lag have a difficult time maintaining their internal, routine sleep-wake pattern in their new location, because external stimuli, like sunshine and local timetables, dictate a different pattern.
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There's a way to remedy this - try wearing sunglasses when you get off of the plane - or during the plane ride. It often helps with jet lag.. I don't travel enough to try it.. but it seems like it could come in handy for ya.