I’ve been told jet lag after traveling east is worse than jet lag after traveling west. Given the distance I usually fly, jet lag is jet lag, and either way sucks equally.<\/p>\n
I’ve tended to reverse that conventional wisdom only because I’ve traveled to Hawaiʻi a few times without ever leaving Central time. That happened in 2008. It happened last year and this year as well, but after a few days, my clock aligns with Hawaiian time.<\/p>\n
This year is extraordinary since I stayed in Hawaiʻi for a record four weeks, which gave my body time to settle into the Hawaiian time zone.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I woke up at 8 a.m. I usually gain consciousness at around 6 a.m. — sometimes 5 a.m. if the neighbors clang around their bathroom — and don’t get out of bed till 7 a.m. But when I say I woke up at 8 a.m., I mean I gained consciousness at 8 a.m. I didn’t get out of bed till 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
That would be 4 a.m. HST, which is when I would gain consciousness to get ready for the 5 a.m. watch for my dad. It took a while to shake that routine after he died, but it wasn’t uncommon for me to get up for something at 4 a.m. HST.<\/p>\n
I didn’t go to bed till 3 a.m., or 11 p.m. HST.<\/p>\n
I got the jet lag bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n Now I see where the conventional wisdom is true. When your body thinks it’s midnight when it’s really 8 p.m., it’s easy just to sleep it off. But when you have to go bed at midnight, and your body insists there’s four hours of wakefulness to go, it’s a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n Tonight, I might actually be tired enough to turn in at 2 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been told jet lag after traveling east is worse than jet lag after traveling west. Given the distance I usually fly, jet lag is jet lag, and either way sucks equally. I’ve tended to reverse that conventional wisdom only because I’ve traveled to Hawaiʻi a few times without ever leaving Central time. That happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4Bkgj-post_11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}