What It Feels Like To Stay Up For 72 Hours

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What it feels like to… Stay Up For 72 Hours By: Saruha Yoganathan I was coming back from Sri Lanka to Canada this summer, and suffered from jet lag. During the plane ride, I didn’t even get 5 minutes of sleep. Plane rides are always calm and relaxing to me, but they’re never comfortable enough to fall asleep in. I envied the people who were able to sleep through the whole ride. The plane’s seats were very uncomfortable and I was airsick and didn’t eat anything almost the whole trip. I don’t think I’ve ever been that tired my whole life. My head was aching, I was frustrated, and I was feeling somewhat nauseous. Even when we stopped in London, England for transit, almost all the passengers were taking a nap, except for me; I was up on my laptop. I would have thought that it’d be much easier to fall asleep once I got back home in my own bed, but it wasn’t. I haven’t been on a long airplane ride in a long time, so I forgot what was so bad about jet lag. It was so frustrating, so I just gave up and watched TV and stayed up on the laptop that whole night. It was as if my mind was tired, but my body wasn’t or vice versa. At the end of the 72 hours, my eyes felt heavy, it become hard to walk, I was crabby, mean and impatient, my body was weak, and I got a fever, but this happens almost every time I travel for a long period of time although this time was the worst. All my sleeping and eating patterns were disrupted, leaving me eating at the oddest times of the day. But after those 72 miserable hours, I slept the whole week away. Every year when our family goes on our annual trip, I always suffer from jet lag the worst compared to my family, although I try and prepare for it a week before by getting used to sleeping and eating in another time zone, it never works

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