This gets my "meditation" tag.
June 25, 2024
"No music, no streaming, no snacking, no sleep."
"'Raw-dogging' has become the buzziest travel trend of the summer, seeing stealth plane passengers forgo the modern comforts of flying to stare at either the in-flight map or nothing at all during lengthy trips."
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This gets my "stupid BS made up by a desperate journo" tag. The sooner AI replaces these people, the better.
Everything but the "no sleep."
I'm not a highly experienced traveler, but I read somewhere, and successfully tested, a cure for jet lag on long trips: sit quietly in your seat and spend the whole flight drifting in and out of sleep. I did that on my last trip to Europe (6 times zones) and it worked like a charm. My plane landed about 11 AM local time and I went out on the city for the day. I was ready for dinner at dinner time, for bed at bed time, and for breakfast at breakfast time. The 6 hours meant nothing.
I made a sextant out of a bubble level and protractor and did solar navigation when crossing the Pacific in a DC-6. Good to about 60 miles accuracy (cross-track), what with the autopilot dutch roll going on constantly.
Editors hate empty space more than nature does.
Back when international travel was a monthly occurrence for me, I would get through the 7 - 15 hour flights with a neck pillow and noise-cancelling over-the-ear headphones, and an iPod with a jacked-up 18 hour battery. And a lot of Bach. Sometimes, at the end of a hitch on the way home, I'd be asleep before the cabin door was closed.
Now "Raw-Dogging" videos see a sharp increase on YouTube. People love to watch them on flights, especially those into Raw-Dogging.
Unlike my wife, I normally just sleep during the flight or read. I'm not interested in "music" or watching a movie. when the airlines served better food I would also eat. Now, I usually turn down the offer of a coke or coffee and just get water. And ignore the food. No great loss.
I love all these convoluted - and marginally effective - formulas for sleeping on a Europe-bound plane.
Here's mine; it's easy. After the meal, and as close as I can (not all that close, unfortunately) to European sleep time: blindfold, earplugs, neck pillow, blanket, sleeping pill (Restoril - a mild sleeper with no hangover). Six hours later, I wake up, near landing time, refreshed, physiologically roughly on the European clock, and having avoided six hours of agonizing plane boredom.
You can have all the little squinty-eye tricks, Melatonin, etc - actual sleep is what works best.
Look at me! I rawdogged a 2 hour flight!
Person from the 1800's: I drove a wagon on the Oregon trail.
Life's getting too easy.
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." Hans Gruber
He should have rawdogged a flight or two.
I'm flying to Tampa tonight. It's only 1 and half hours. Not enough to do nothing at all. For nothing at all to mean really nothing it has to be over 2 hours of nothing.
Speaking of nothing
The king of nothing keeps getting attacked.
Blogger Jupiter said...
This gets my "stupid BS made up by a desperate journo" tag. The sooner AI replaces these people, the better.
I'm with Jupiter on this. An AI could scan social media and generate an article more substantial than this.
Experienced travelers try different methods to handle long flights until settling on a process that works best for them. Most don't follow travel trends.
I used noise-canceling headphones to listen to an audio book as I drifted in and out of sleep.
I'm supposed to fly to Europe in October, and dreading it. I can't sleep--I can't really even relax--in a tin can that is going 500mph at 35,000 feet.
I will take a book or two to read, and will probably see what music I can access, but mostly I'll just sit and watch the miles click off, and long for it to be over.
Heh. I have a family member who only looks at the in-flight map.
It's not a personal challenge though. Merely personal preference.
Once my son and I drove eleven hours and only realized at the very end that we hadn't listened to anything on the way.
I’ve had to raw-dog a couple of Southwest flights. On one full flight near the end of the mask-wearing phase of the pandemic, I had to take a middle seat, which upset the person in the window seat. She made caustic comments throughout the flight. I just grabbed ahold of the top of the tray table, so that my arms wouldn’t touch hers, and counted to 100 over and over until we reached our destination. It was an interesting mental experience, but not one for which I have any desire to set a new personal best.
@L.B.O.T.C.- "I just grabbed ahold of the top of the tray table, so that my arms wouldn’t touch hers, and counted to 100 over and over until we reached our destination..."
I certainly hope you were doing it out loud.
No.
Where does "stealth" enter into it?
All I need is the air that I breathe...
"Catatonic: a state in which someone is awake but does not seem to respond to other people and their environment." Ohhh...that.
More reporting on silly WPP again? To be honest about it this post reminds me of that old blog "Stuff That White People Like" circa the early 2010's. The NY Post is appropriate bc nobody cares more about affluenza issues than the NYC based media either. This is what they do? Really? Earning the proles contempt. Egging it on even. A hard rain is gonna fall.
Seinfeld covered this a long time ago.
I guess that I was a trend setter.
My favorite way to fly to Europe was take off at 10 pm, be asleep before the plane was airborne, and wake up over Ireland.
I often snore. Before the plane takes off, I tell my seatmates to feel free to elbow me hard if I snore aloud, because all I'll do is adjust my position and say, "Sorry, honey" without even waking up, just like I do at home.
“The anti-indulgence phenomenon has been loosely credited to Idris Elba’s character, Sam Nelson, on the Apple TV+ series ‘Hijacked.’”
That is incorrect. It is credited to Puddy on “Seinfeld”.
imTay:
My favorite way to fly to Europe was take off at 10 pm, be asleep before the plane was airborne, and wake up over Ireland.
When contracting, when I had to fly that was my modus as well.
Freeman Hunt:
Once my son and I drove eleven hours and only realized at the very end that we hadn't listened to anything on the way.
When I'm driving, there's no radio or conversation. Too many stupid drivers out there to get distracted.
Puddymaxxing
Jupiter said...
"This gets my "stupid BS made up by a desperate journo" tag. The sooner AI replaces these people, the better."
I wonder if Bezos is thinking the same thing about the Washington Post newsroom.
The only time I've done something similar was sitting in a hospital lobby for 3.5 hours waiting for an ER doc and did nothing except keep my eyes close and change positions slightly every 100 breaths.
I've never done this as a challenge nor for an entire flight, but for the last several years I have begun spending a lot of flight time just watching the flight tracker. It's very relaxing.
I never meditate per se but do spend a lot of time in my own head. It's very relaxing.
Sort of shocked this has not been posted yet.
Classic Seinfeld
Oops. It did get posted. Yancey. LOL
Wa St Blogger said...
“Look at me! I rawdogged a 2 hour flight!
Person from the 1800's: I drove a wagon on the Oregon trail.”
But have you died of disentary yet?
Yancy wins with the first Seinfeld reference.
At least Vegetable Lasagna had some in flight entertainment.
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