Jet Lag... not cool!

My friend Bismarck told me he's waiting on my post about jet lag, and well it's not very interesting but here it goes. Before this trip, never had I ever suffered from jet lag. I don't know why, but last year when I was here it didn't happen. And I remember when I went to Hawaii back in high school, I also didn't suffer from it. But this time... oh boy have I felt it! Whoever knows me well, they know I can sleep like a bear. When I sleep, I don't just sleep, I hibernate! Not kidding! I don't know if it's me getting older and becoming a responsible adult or whatnot, but sometimes I just don't hibernate like I used to. lol

Anyway, the day before my flight to France, I stayed up packing and packing and packing some more. Basically I only got two hours of sleep because then I woke up early to go for my last 8 mile walk/run with my friends at Rickenbacker. 

The way I saw it, the lack of sleep the night before meant I would pass the fuck out on the plane. So on this 8.5 hour flight, I slept about 7-7.5 hours. Good job in my opinion! When I arrived in France it was 8:30am and I felt very well rested. At some point I got tired... perhaps around 5pm (France time), my family said I could take a nap, but no... I wanted to stay awake and get used to a normal schedule. I did go to sleep early, around 9:30pm.

That night I woke up at 2am, and then forced myself to sleep. I woke up again around 5am, and then finally at 6:30am when my alarm went off. After I dropped Lucas off at school and I came back home and finished unpacking. I got a little tired, so I allowed myself to take a little 30-45 min nap. But no! I was so tired or jet-lagged... I don't know, but that 45 min nap turned into 2.5 hr nap! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to fall asleep at a reasonable time that night, but seeing as my body is crazy when it comes to sleep, I did manage to fall asleep at 10pm that night. The next night, I once again would wake up at a crazy time, only this time it took a lot of effort to make myself go to sleep, and then when I did go to sleep I woke up at 5:30am from a terrible nightmare. It was one of those terrible ones that I woke up crying from it. Not cool. I didn't force myself to go to sleep at that point. I just stayed awake since I was going to wake up in an hour anyway. 

When there's any down time, I do get a bit tired, but I immediately force myself to do something so that it can go away. I did a little bit of research and according to Wikipedia:

"The condition of jet lag may last several days until one is fully adjusted to the new time zone, and a recovery rate of one day per time zone crossed is a suggested guideline."

So this means 6 days for me. Sounds about right. I'm coming in at day 5-6 and my sleep is getting better. I went to sleep around midnight last night, and woke up on my own at 9am. So yay! 

There ya go Bismarck. My boring post about jet lag for ya. ;)