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Being forced to sleep at normal times is compared with {{w|jet lag}}: sleeplessness due to your body being synchronized to another time zone, named as such because jet aircraft made it possible for people to travel farther and faster, throwing their internal clocks out of sync with the place they're in far more than in the age of necessarily longer travel times in which the full clock-shift is smeared over days, weeks or even months. Here, Cueball needs to turn back his internal clock over five hours to sync with his family. | Being forced to sleep at normal times is compared with {{w|jet lag}}: sleeplessness due to your body being synchronized to another time zone, named as such because jet aircraft made it possible for people to travel farther and faster, throwing their internal clocks out of sync with the place they're in far more than in the age of necessarily longer travel times in which the full clock-shift is smeared over days, weeks or even months. Here, Cueball needs to turn back his internal clock over five hours to sync with his family. | ||
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+ | Naturally, {{w|Santa Claus}} sticks to his strange schedule of being simultaneously at houses with trees and chimneys on Christmas Eve. He is exempt from this lag. | ||
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