Time Change

When I travel I rarely get a good night sleep and the daylight savings time compounded the issue. My plan was to go to bed at around 10:30 PM and wake up at 5:30 AM to go to the gym. However, 10:30 would have been 8:30 back home and actually 7:30 due to the time change. So I ended up going to bed at around midnight (there is always something interesting to read on internet). No problem I thought, change of plan, I would sleep more and go to the gym in the evening. There was a problem in fact, I woke up very early, and after failing to fall asleep again I decided to have a look at the watch (I dread checking the time and see it is only 2 AM or 3AM). It was 5 AM and I made the decision to get up and go to the gym. Adapt and act! However the hotel shuttle wasn’t there and I was told it would be available only after some 20 min. (first time this has happened to me, usually it is there or I don’t wait more than 10 min.), I didn’t feel like calling the cab (the hotel doesn’t have a proper gym) so went back to my room and this is a post (and the next one) of me not being able to sleep.

Some interesting articles:

Daylight Saving 2011: How Time Change Affects Our Health
Sleep Medicine. Springing forward is like flying from west to east — say from California to Washington, D.C. — while falling back is like flying from east to west. And as frequent flyers can attest, the eastbound change is much harder to acclimate to than the westbound for most.
It is so true.

Daylight Saving Time: Harvard Professor Explains The Health Risks Of ‘Springing Forward’

How Sleep Is Affected By Time Changes

Improve Focus At Work: 8 Ways To Stay On Track After Daylight Savings