Recently my baby ball python (I've had him for 3 weeks) has been laying in his hide with his head sticking out in a loose S shape. (Photo here: https://imgur.com/a/QThovEM). He ate yesterday just fine, and that was his very first meal with me. He started doing the thing I'm describing about 2 or 3 days before his meal, so I sort of took it as that he was hungry. But now that I see he's still doing it even after his meal, I'm curious what he's doing. He does it like 24/7, sometimes sleeping. This is his hide on the cool side btw, he has an identical one on the warm end as well.