One Week Going Strong
Posted in Commentary, Personal on 11/07/2008 01:05 pm by tchansen
photo by by gemsling
So, I’ve been back from southern China for a week now. A full week of falling asleep at 8 or 9 PM and waking at 2 or 3 AM, wide awake and ready to start the day.
Of course, I can’t actually start the day because I’ll wake the rest of the house so I creep down to my office and watch CNN. I pretend that I’ll work on my NaNoWriMo novel in just FIVE MORE MINUTES but I don’t, I just play Scramble or Hero Battle, read the comics and catch up on the events of the day.
This is my plea to my readers (both of you): Any solutions for adjusting your sleep schedule to something approaching normal? I’ve tried Melatonin, I’ve tried limiting my caffeine intake, and I’ve tried making myself stay up late. I haven’t tried any sleep aids, such as Ambien, as I don’t want to medicate if I don’t have to.
Please leave any remedies or techniques in the comments. Thanks!
11/07/2008 at 3:00 pm
that’s a bummer :-/ I adjust pretty quickly. I try hard to follow a sun schedule as much as possible, and I try to spend time outdoors to help reset myself.
11/10/2008 at 3:09 pm
Yeah, I usually adjust quickly too - this is my fourth time in a year going somewhere more than 10 hours offset from normal and I had no real problems adjusting the other three. This time though, the sun is down early and even a full spectrum light doesn’t help.
On the plus side, since it is now 10 days, it may be permanent so I’ll just plan on going to work out in the mornings at 4 AM instead of in the evening when I never go.