[lamontcg]

I've skipped business trips to Europe and the East Coast before because jetlag is completely brutal for me.

And it takes all those tricks for me just to maintain a 24 hour sleep cycle. What I'd like to be able to do is what I did in college and shift my sleep schedule forward an hour or two every day. Instead I have a sleep mask, I start prepping for bed at least an hour early, I take melatonin, I make sure not to eat at night, and I lie down in bed with the sleep mask on for at least 20-30 minutes and listen to programs that help me to relax. Then it takes me 20-30 minutes after I really decide to go to sleep in order to go to sleep.

And right before bedtime is when I'm most alert. Even if I stay up all night, at about 9:30pm I won't be able to sleep.

What is really bad is when I'm seriously sleep depped and I get to sleep at say 7:30 or so, and I can easily wake up after 2-3 hours and then be stuck awake until >3am in the morning.

So I use every single trick in the book and then can just barely manage to stick to what the rest of society thinks is normal and its a constant fight.