Epiphanap
Now I understand life, the universe, and everything
Wow. You ever have one of those naps where you wake up a totally different person?1 Well, I have, and I wanted to tell you about it.
It may or may not surprise you to learn that the guy who founded a daily napping Substack has a tendency to gaze at his navel from time to time. During a recent episode of this, I suddenly found my eyelids getting heavy — that’s right, I thought myself into exhaustion. I lay down to nap and could not tell you whether I lost consh or not — perhaps I was in a hypnotic state of some sort? — but when I woke up, everything just made sense. I had to tell the fellas immediately.
Without taking you through all of my personal shit,2 I’ll say that I woke up understanding the universe just a bit more than I did before I lay down and closed my eyes. My “a ha” moment took me somewhere near the intersection of existential dread and exceptionalism, of thinking about the life I’ve chosen and how I want to be remembered after I slip into the sweet eternal nap.
I’m not sure I’d call overthinking a napping cheat code, but it sure did the trick here — and after my epiphanap, I woke up and was one with everything. Babies don’t sleep this well.
Not in the Fight Club sense, of course.
I pay someone good money to listen to that once a week. His name is Tyler, and he’s my bartender.