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Ham Equity posted:I'm leaving for Japan this Sunday at 13:30 Pacific time. I want to optimize my time there; we get in at 16:00 on Monday, and have a light day planned for the next day. Our flight basically leaves in the middle of the night Japan time, unfortunately. It is also the first day of daylight savings time. What should I do about sleep in the lead-up to this in order to normalize the time there? I was thinking about staying up until 9:00 or so Saturday morning, sleeping then, but I'm still gonna have to be up at 7:00-8:00ish on Sunday morning to make my flight, which probably defeats the purpose. Should I stay up all not Saturday night as well and plan on sleeping on the plane? Get as much sleep as possible. Staying up and trying to "switch to Japan time" early is not going to work and it will also put you in sleep deficit. Get in at 16:00, get to your hotel at 18:00, then the important thing is to stay awake until at least 9 or 10pm, no matter how tired you are when you get to your hotel. Depending on your sleep deficit / how well you slept on the plane, this will determine to a large extent how bad your next couple days are. Personally I always get exactly one day of jetlag regardless of the time zone switch (5 hour or 11 hour, same to me) but for my wife she gets messed up by anything more than like a 3 hour TZ change and is a wreck for days for a TZ change of more than 6 hours. I can sleep anywhere, any time though. She cannot sleep sitting up. You can also ask in the extremely active Japan thread on this subforum, they’ll probably suggest their own shamanic rituals for minimizing it.
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Also get a window seat and lean against the side of the plane; this is the only way I can get decent sleep on a flight in coach, unless the flight is mostly empty. Keep in mind window seats are usually much colder. Emergency exit row window seats are always absolutely arctic. Also if drugs are you thing then ambien can work, but it can also make you strip naked and go sleepwalk to find god, so maybe.. don’t take it for the first time on a flight unless you have a minder.
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