Sleep dreams

From hub buster to jetlag buster

Anyone who has ever made the journey between Australia to Europe knows the feeling of either being unable to stay awake at three o’clock in the afternoon or staring at the bedroom wall at 300AM eyes wide open.

The 24 hours of flying, the up to 11 hours’ time difference and the dry cabin air present in those aluminium (or carbon composite) tubes at 38,000ft can all add up to a travel-weary body that thinks it is midnight even though the sun sits high in the sky shining brightly.