Is it hard to get to sleep the night after 1st jump

[zerojumps 0]

This question is for those who have done their first jump in the recent past.

It seems as if it would be very difficult to get to sleep on the night after your first jump; Do you keep running through the experience in your head and looking forward to the next? Are any chemical helpers needed to relax, or does the jump actually relax you? Hopefully I won't have to ask silly quesitons like this much longer.

-DJ
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[CanuckInUSA 0]

After a full day of jumping and packing (and maybe a little drinking afterwards), I'm usually pretty tired and have no trouble falling a sleep at night. But every once in a while I lay awake thinking about my jumps and this was definitely in full force when I was an AFF student.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[jlmiracle 7]

Granted my first jump was 7 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday.

Back then we were trained on rip cords so all night long I would wake up, jump up on the bed and ARCH, LOOK, REACH, PULL, CHECK 1000, 2000, etc.

IMO, its normal.

Judy

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

[dbagdrew 0]

I definitely remember having a hard time sleeping after my first jump, I kept playing it over and over through my head. And thats not ever exclusive to my first jump either, after a weekend of good jumping I sometimes lay awake thinking about them. Not so bad that I ever needed sleeping pills though.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain

[tosca 0]

The week before I started the course, I could wake up thinking about how it would feel like to jump!

After my first jumping day I was tired, felt very satisfied and had a great, relaxed sleep.

[payback462 0]

after my first jump i think i sat there for like a week just thinking about it ang giggleing like a friggin girl.
for me the trouble sleeping was the night before.

although now i dont have that problem because all those weeks on end of cold, windy days at the DZ have tuned me into a hardcore alcoholic

[Jethers203 0]

It wasn't so much after the first jump, but before the first jump for me.

My first jump was 4 years ago and I remember it like it was this morning. I couldn't sleep for shit the night before. I was so anxious to get out there and do it, I didn't sleep a bit.

After the jump was a bunch of sweet dreams!!!!!

John D-24352

[betzilla 56]

I was super tired the night after my first jump. I did a static-line, so I had to get up really early, and sit through a 6-hour class. I was too nervous to eat or drink anything, then the jump itself was physically and mentally exhausting. Then I made myself more tired ny talking nonstop about how cool it was for hours and hours afterwards.

So I slept like a baby the night after my first jump, and dreamed about the skydiving all night long.

[rendezvous 0]

Oh ! I sleep very well once I've jumped. It's when I haven't that I have problems.

[lawrocket 3]

I had more difficulty staying awake. The adrenaline rush took an awful lot out of me. I stayed at the DZ for a while whilst I recuperated enough to drive home.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[DivinDon 0]

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i think i sat there for like a week just thinking about it ang giggleing like a friggin girl

I did this also,but what was bad is I found myself doing it with no one else in the room. My wife thought I was laughing at the T.V. or the computer.What I like now is when I run into a whuffo I think about that first jump and refuse to tell them what it is like.I know they won't get it even if I did try to explain "how it feels"


Later Don

[Islandcool 0]

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seems as if it would be very difficult to get to sleep on the night after your first jump

Dude..I was so high on it I was ready to bust. I slept ok but the second my eyes opened I was right there again!

Ed

[jumpy 0]

I slept like a baby that night and still do after a few jumps in one day! Coming down from an adrenaline rush like that is damn tiring! It just takes more then one jump to have the same effect these days

[covey 0]

I did my FJC on a Fiday and stayed up most of the night. I had my dive flow written down and drove my wife crazy having here go over it with me. On Saturday I did levels 1 thru 3. I didn't realise how tired I was til I started driving home. My eyelids were real heavy on that trip. Needless to say there was no problem sleeping that night.

Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it. -Andre Gide

[Amazon 7]

I slept really good after my first jump.. in 1975. But they ran me to death in Jump School so I always slept like a brick.
Now, I can't even get a nap before I go to work on Sunday night if I jump on Sunday afternoon.

I might try to get a jump in on Sunday morning.... that big church in the sky

Amazon

[dbattman 0]

Sleeping after your firtst jump won't be a problem at all. It's waking up all night in a cold sweat trying to find the pud that's the problem.

[Viator 0]

Okay it seems my story is a little different. You see, I'm not (well... wasn't) a big fan of heights when I did my first jump. At the time, the apprehension as to what it was going to be like completely overtook any logical thinking, and by the time I got to the ground I could hardly remember any of the freefall. That was until that night when I lay in bed and closed my eyes and suddenly what I had just done totally dawned on me ..... I kid you not that I lay in bed and felt sick and dizzy at the thought of falling from that plane into nothingness.

Of course, it's a different story now, I love that feeling of leaving the plane, and drop off to sleep within minutes of hitting the pillow. Okay, the DZ bar helps with that a lot, but it's the same without ;)

[PhillyKev 0]

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I had more difficulty staying awake. The adrenaline rush took an awful lot out of me. I stayed at the DZ for a while whilst I recuperated enough to drive home.

I went with a bunch of people from work for my first tandem, 7 of us, (I was the only one to come back). We all said the same thing...got home, adrenaline wore off...crashed.

[jumpgod 0]

hehehe....this is normal. sometimes i go a month without a jump ($$) and i still have dreams that i'm belly in a 4-way or on some wicked sit/headdown night jump or something....for me, it's just a part of skydiving.

[nightjumps 1]

Recent past or past past, the feeling is the same for a lot of folks. I will remember the night between my first and second jump at Airborne School...

I laid there all night thinking, "What was I thinking about when I signed up for this?" After the finest training the world has to offer, I had these whole algorithms of what could go wrong going through my head.

That was around 1,200 jumps and 23 years ago. Stay away from the chemicals, Bro. Couple of beers and call it a night. It'll go away and you'll come to find that your most restful nights will be those after a good hard day of jumping.

[Magistr8 0]

I am a low time jumper myself for me I slept like a baby that night, and many subsequent nights after that.

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Hopefully I won't have to ask silly quesitons like this much longer.

Just this weekend at the dropzone, I was telling the more experiences guys how I felt like I didn't know anything about skydiving being so new when one of them said. " It's nothing new, we all had to go through it."

I have to confess that we were talking about buying beer when he said that, but the same thinking applies here. The more you ask the more you learn

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." Napoleon Bonaparte