You might remember our first Foundations post,1 where I defined a “flex” as a “nap that begins before noon (baller move).” We love flexes — ‘nuff said, amiright?2
Well, when I try to explain why a flex is such a baller move, I find myself at an uncharacteristic loss of words. However, I think some of the logic is reflected in the following exchange taken verbatim from the TAENR this morning:
While there are definitely times when we3 need a nap, I think it’s generally fair to say that most of us want (or at least wouldn’t mind) a nap just about all the time.4 So to knock out a nap so early in the day…well, it almost feels like showing off…conspicuous consumption applied to napping.
What happens when we extend this line of reasoning? If it’s a flex to nap before noon, what about when you nap even earlier in the day — say, before 10:30, as I did this morning after a bad night’s sleep? It looks like the consensus within the TAENR is that this is still just your run of the mill flex, that you don’t enter the realm of “superflex” until you’ve napped before 9am. Let me ponder…
We’ve all had our experiences with a superflex, as Hen intimates in the TAENR snippet above — hope he turns that into a post someday. I have more thoughts and questions, but we’ll have to address them another day, as I’ve just hit my allotted 250…
Going way back to January 2nd, the third TND post overall! Makes me wistful…
The royal “we.”
See earlier discussion by , who is as great a hang over Google Meet as he is with his writing, about corporate culture and how it pushes us all to and often beyond the point of exhaustion.
Of course this issue arises at the other end of the day as well. I often will fall asleep to a sound healing late at night, on the floor. Then I’ll wake up and get into bed to go back to sleep.
The same considerations apply: how much time must elapse between the end of my “nap” and getting into bed for my floor session to count as a nap vs just including it as part of my sleep?
What’s the role that intention plays here?
Are there certain activities that I might do between the floor and getting back into bed that give the floor session distance that it qualifies as a nap?
So many avenues for completely overthinking and analyzing this!
Haha I know I’ve written a post about napping and intention and loss of consh...if you read Foundations 3.5, I definitely link to the earlier piece where I talk about it. So much to consider, def make it a series -- that’s one of a number of solutions your brother and I have concocted to deal with the 250 word limit (also captions and footnotes not counting towards word count -- genius!).