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After three days of this torture, you will feel like you too have just got off a 26-hour flight. | After three days of this torture, you will feel like you too have just got off a 26-hour flight. | ||
By day, [[proxy jetlag]] is rather like being [[Jonathan Harker]] in the early stages of {{br|Dracula}}. You creep around a deserted castle, shrouded in half-light with all the curtains drawn. If you should happen to turn on any lights, there will be a sudden, bloodless scream, a bundle of what you thought | By day, [[proxy jetlag]] is rather like being [[Jonathan Harker]] in the early stages of {{br|Dracula}}. You creep around a deserted castle, shrouded in half-light with all the curtains drawn. If you should happen to turn on any lights, there will be a sudden, bloodless scream, a bundle of what you thought were rags or discarded, unwashed laundry will animate and a pale (yet, strangely, tanned) zombie with dead eyes will wave woozily at you by way of mortal plea to return to a state of darkness. | ||
There is a view that Bram Stoker was inspired to write his Gothic masterpiece after experiencing [[proxy jetlag]] (then called “[[boatman’s delirium]]”). | There is a view that Bram Stoker was inspired to write his Gothic masterpiece after experiencing [[proxy jetlag]] (then called “[[boatman’s delirium]]”). | ||