The Dutch Eus van Someren sleep researcher holds workshops for jetlag injured.
Sleepless in the departure hall
TIME: Mr van Someren, you are sleep expert at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and now offer seminars in hotels for jet lag victims. What do you tell them?
Eus van Someren: First, the basics. Many people do not even know that there is something like an internal clock. The take down their fatigue after a long haul flight as a natural event. This much can be done to at least feel reasonably fit.
TIME: What? There is always, one should simply set up after the time on the ground and resist the temptation to sleep in broad daylight already.
Van Someren: I can not really say that a flat rate. My advice to the middle. If you are flying from Munich to New York, you need to make up a time difference of six hours. Let's say you come in at 19 clock, but actually it is a clock at night. If you are used to lie down at midnight, you should order in this case 21 or 22 clock to bed.
TIME: And if I think not so long?
Van Someren: Then you go outside. Let the sun sink in, then the internal clock is most likely to the circumstances. That can be solved with sleeping pills for sale by us. In the dark hotel room, the body may eventually no longer distinguish whether it is day or night.