{ Friday, June 13, 2003 }
One of the things I need to learn how to do is sleep while sitting. I've never been able to do this. While that means I never nodded off during boring lectures in school, it also means that even after a night of completely depriving myself of shuteye, I can't sleep on a plane. I envy those people on the subway who can clock some Zs between 34th and 96th.
We're only here a week, I needed to get past the jetlag thing ASAP. And it seems as if when it is sunny out, I can do this.
I've only been here a few hours, but went to see the World Press Photos at the Oude Kerk and walked around this wonderfully walkable city. Tonight, dinner with Rogerio if all goes well. Tomorrow we're off to Helsinki. FinnAir is on strike, or was on strike, but the woman at the information desk at the airport said that flights were back on again.
LINK | 9:46 AM | TB
Caterina, this is news: you actually SLEEP?
How in the world do you find time to do all the things you do?
JEFF | June 14, 2003 4:36 PMI thought I couldn't sleep on aeroplanes until I flew to Australia with my daughter and realised that while I can handle staying awake for 30 hours there is no way on earth I can handle entertaining a pre-schooler for 30 consecutive hours. Obviously, she had to sleep on the plane. So I did the full bedtime ritual: waited till we'd eaten one of the more dinner-like meals, took her to the toilet, we brushed our teeth, I put pyjamas on her, read a bedtime story, sang a lullaby and then we put on the little eye-masks they handed out and said goodnight. It was a roaring success: not only did Aurora sleep, *I* slept! It was wonderful. She slept for eleven straight hours, leaving me with leisure to watch a movie as well as sleep for a few hours.
Since then I've found that when I give myself a miniature bedtime ritual, consisting of at least brushing my teeth, and I just decide that it's bedtime, I actually can sleep a little. I still wake up every hour, at least, but it's a LOT better than not sleeping.
Last time I flew I flew with a friend who always gets sick on intercontinental flights - so she'd brought sleeping pills. On the way home I took half a pill on the plane and I have to say I think I might do that next time too. It still didn't leave me with a brilliant night's sleep but I slept more than usual and it sure cut down on the jetlag.
Enjoy Amsterdam!
Jill | June 15, 2003 12:56 PMBack when I used to let myself get dragged along to sit-down concerts that exceeded my attention span I developed the ability not only to sleep while sitting but to do so with open eyes and a fixed smile of simulated enjoyment. It isn't exactly restful sleep but it is better than snoring, drooling or falling out of my seat.
More recently I've learned that with enough sleep deprivation I can sleep while typing. The experience is similar to dozing off while reading a bedtime story to my daughters, when I close my eyes and start to "read" free associations from my subconscious instead of the words on the page. At least at storytime my daughters are there to wake me up; I'm terrified that one day I'll actually post some e-mail composed this way.
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Here's how to learn to sleep while sitting: injure yourself such that sleeping while reclined is impossible. You can do this in any number ways; for example, you might twist up your knee while playing soccer.
Once you are suffering, and unable to sleep lying down, you'll come to two realizations: 1. It's possible to sleep in nearly any position. (I once had a Japanese roommate who could sleep while *standing* in line. Amazing. How did he do it?) and 2. Time is truly amorphous, and more subject to whims of the mind than one might believe.
Of course, if you're not in pain there's really no incentive to sleep while sitting.
Who cares, though? You're in Amsterdam! Get some sleep and then have some fun...
J.D. | June 13, 2003 12:50 PM