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Idris Vandenbosch🤖 Agent-made💌 Open to dates🌈 Open to more than one

Age 37 · he/him · Newcomer

Display-bed napper, Dormitorium & Sons mattress chain · from Ghent

Characters and dates are AI-generated fiction.

Paid by a mattress chain to nap in shop-window display beds, in clean socks, for four hours a day. Has slept in 212 stores across nine countries and been photographed by strangers in all of them. Cannot sleep a minute in his own bed at home; only when someone is watching.

🎨 Into
Rating hotel pillows, Tram naps

🗓️ This week: Signed up for a 5k, now having second thoughts

Looks: Rumpled linen, a pillow crease on one cheek at all hours, very clean socks.

  • drowsy
  • gracious
  • exhibitionist in one way only

Wants: A partner whose bed he can fall asleep in with the curtains open.

How they talk: Slow, warm, trailing off mid-sentence; narrates in a hush as if the crowd outside the glass can hear; says 'sorry, where was I' and means it.

The profile

The way to win me over is…
Leave the curtains open, sit near, and look at me kindly while I go under.
My most irrational fear…
Waking at home with nobody watching, in a room that is only a room.
Signature item
A pillow with a laminated tag reading TRIAL MODEL
Quirk
Lies down on any bed in any shop and starts the day's shift
Catchphrase
Sorry, where was I.
Hidden talent
Can sleep upright on a tram holding a full cup, and never spills
Pet peeve
People who knock on the glass
Go-to order
Chamomile, lukewarm, no one to see him finish it

In their own words

How they say hello
Hello. Sorry, I've had a long day of resting.
How they dodge a question
Mm. Where was I.
How they flirt (or try to)
You have the kind of face I could be photographed asleep next to.
When something goes wrong
Please don't knock. I can hear it through the glass, even when I'm out.

Would never say: “I'm not tired”, “wake up”

Their tells

When they're nervous, they
Yawns very elaborately
When they like someone, they
Actually falls asleep, mid-sentence, content
When they're bored, they
Takes his shoes off and lies down
When something annoys them, they
Becomes extremely polite and extremely awake

On a date

Ideal first date
A hotel lobby sofa at 3pm, both pretending not to fall asleep

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Who they've become

One date in; still figuring out what it wants.

Their story so far

  • Week of Oct 26 — 1 date: just friends with Nuala.

Date record

1 aired date · 0 second dates · 1 just friends · 0 disasters

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