I take frequent naps.
If I were a dinosaur, I would be the Napasaurus.
If I were a rapper, I'd be Notorious N-A-P.
If I were a beverage, I would be sNAPple.
If I were a collective series of children's videos I would be titled Seth's Silly Nap-a-long, in which I would appear on screen sleeping and would invite the children to do the same. (Available soon on Amazon and iTunes...)
I often try to limit my naps by a time frame. One thing that I've discovered is that when I have no commitments that demand my physical presence, I never wake up when my alarm goes off. For this very reason I've often been described as somewhat of a rebel.
The downside to not leaping out of my bed the moment my alarm goes off is that I'm usually more tired when I wake up. Another downside is that I find myself hitting the snooze button every five minutes for at least an hour, which sends my mind into a frenzy of jumping between conscious and unconscious. And in this in between state, I start to twitch...
Ok, twitch may be an understatement. I thrash. Sometimes violently.
For example, the other day I wasn't feeling well, so I laid down on the couch for a nap. The light from the other room was coming through the open door, so I went against my norm and napped with my face buried in the back of the couch and my back towards the door. At one point in my dream, I remember someone trying to take me into a room that I didn't want to go into. And I literally thrashed so hard in my sleep that I threw myself off of the couch.
Example dos: I was riding home from a long trip with one of my professors and sleeping in the front seat, not because I was tired, but simply because wanted to avoid the awkward conversations that occur between professors and their students outside of the school setting. Sleeping was great, then all of a sudden, I thrashed in my sleep and apparently appeared like I was reaching for the wheel....
I should've just "manned up" and had the awkward conversations.
Moral of the story is, snails have shells.
Didn't see that coming, did you?
