Right now I have a horrible case of travelers insomnia. I've switched time zones and I can't sleep. Also I have trouble sleeping at other peoples houses or in beds that are not my own! This just adds to the problem. I am on here trying to get sleepy. Does this ever happen to you when you can't sleep cause you've changed time zones or you're in someone else's bed and not your own?

Yes it happened to me.



It was really bad when I got home this time.

I am pretty good...going west i wake usually for 1 night a bit early like 5-6am then i am ok. Going east i settle even faster.
I guess working away from home did me good

karmatornado said:

Oh lordy yes, I thought I was the only one...I also tend to get constipated and my ears stay clogged for days after a plane ride, yuck!

Hopefully Princey will make me forget about all of it this weekend.

for the first 2 weeks after I arrived in sweden I could only sleep every second night

Have you North Americans stopped calling it "jet lag"? I used that term when talking to a Canadian friend of mine and she didn't know what I meant.

Anyway, I'm pretty good at adapting these days. It's almost impossible to force yourself to sleep when your body doesn't want to, so the trick is to force yourself to stay awake until an appropriate time. That gets you onto the right clock pretty fast.

retina said:

Naw see jet lag lasts a few hours. Traveling insomia lasts days.

karmatornado said:

that is weird it's been 2 days and I am still jetlagged

karmatornado said:

That's not part of the definition according to Wikipedia. They seem to be pretty much the same thing, although jet lag includes more symptoms than just insomnia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag

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retina said:

Its cool, its just my own personal definition I guess. Fuck wikipedia, That site so much information with falacies in them! lol

babynoz said:

Let's NOT discuss travelers constipation....

karmatornado said:

Oh goodness yes, that happens to me all the time! I recently spent a month in North Carolina, and my sleep pattern was very much affected. It was good to get home so that I could sleep in my own bed.

babynoz said:

My ears stay clogged for a couple of hours after a plane ride; don't you just hate that? I have tried chewing gum, but that didn't seem to work too well. I keep having to yawn to get my ears to open back up again so that I can hear. It's awful.

Recently, when I was driving through the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia, my ears were popping. It must have been because of the higher elevation, but I have driven through that area before and have never noticed it.

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In the words of Tom Waits, "I don't go on the road a lot. It makes me grumpy...I'm an albino catfish. I like it in my tank."

In fact, I'm hoping to never have to leave my tank again.

I think I can do it!

shanti0608 said:

I know, right? Strange bathroom/food = lock up...

psychodelicide said:

My ears stay clogged for days no matter what I do. Very annoying. I didn't have any problems driving through the Virginia mountains though.

babynoz said:

It is bad when you are away for over 2 weeks....

shanti0608 said:

And the LAST thing you want to do is take a laxative,

Anxiety said:

I use this...

Ace said:

that's the, um...spirit...?

Yeah, just sleep when you need to. I was getting up at like 6.00am in South America and recently not until 10am back in Europe.

Anxiety said:

I used to drag my ass all over the place. Now, I'm like, What's up with that?

Ace said:

i guess i just have a predisposition for travel. i love it. when i go too long without leaving home, i think i get like jack nicholson in 'the shining', which is why i don't keep an axe in my apartment.

Anxiety said:

I used to love it up until about my early thirties. But, to quote Waits again, "I think that, if you haven't travelled, (your hometown) can feel like a trap. But, if you've seen the world, it doesn't feel that way at all."

Ace said:

well, i hope i age into that attitude, because it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than flying everywhere all the time.

Anxiety said:

Just get cable and everything'll be alright.

babynoz said:

Argh, that IS annoying.

yep