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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
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[–] Discola@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think it is more than that, the shower is a proper refuge where external stimuli is severely limited. Sounds are limited by the running water, temperature is controlled by the water, visuals are limited, and no one is generally barging in.

When I was studying math at University I had a remarkable number of eureka moments in the shower where suddenly infinity made sense. Smart phones didn't really exist then but showers still held power as a great place to think

[–] SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

This dude literally understood infinity in the shower... Image

[–] TurretCorruption@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thats less of a eureka and more of an archimedes moment.

[–] kubijoe@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Psilocybin and a sensory deprivation tank is all you need to eureka yourself up all the way until infinity is the only think that makes sense at all.

Not financial advise.

[–] sykccc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Jokes on you I read r/showerthoughts in the shower

[–] Emanresu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Have to deeply self censor my comment...

guys.. you are scaring me. No faith for humanity if you guys cant put down your collar for even 10 minutes in the shower......

Zombies

[–] pixel_witch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Currently reading this in the shower...

[–] DrSanta@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One of those bags to keep your phone dry?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago

Most phones made now it seems are rated for being able to go underwater. I wouldn't go swimming with mine or anything, but it often gets wet and it's fine. The touchscreen doesn't really work when wet, because it thinks it's being touched all over. That's the only part that needs to stay dry to operate in the shower.

[–] mycoxadril@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s weird, I read and respond to texts and listen to audiobooks on my phones speaker in the shower all the time. There’s a ledge outside of the water spray so it’s easy to navigate. I mean texts can usually wait but the ability to continue my audiobook from my headphones to my phone speakers for showering is key.

[–] Platomus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It's 2 am right now and I was sleeping terrible. So I took my phone to the shower, not really to get clean, but just for comfort.

[–] dimlo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The shower is where I secretly watch porn in a house of 6 people. Let the water running and start beat my meat with hot water running at my beck.

[–] Drift@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We need a NoFap community on lemmy

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

No love for MoFap?

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Nofap is like a cult and the folks from that sub spread a lot of really stupid misinformation. Masturbation is healthy, safe, and a basic human need... but like everything it should be done in moderation. It reduces the change of prostate cancer, and keeps the pipes clean.

[–] Existential_prices@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use my phonein the shower all the time, I watch tv or read things online, who are these people just standing in the shower, not watching tv lol.

[–] IronDonkey@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, I can't even imagine wanting to bring my phone into the shower. "Just standing" there, alone with my thoughts, hot water relaxing muscles... Nothing needs me, I need nothing, the world is on hold until further notice. It's meditative: Everything ceases mattering, ceases even existing - to resume later, of course, but in the meantime, perfect, relaxed, complete solitude. It's perfect as it is. Music or videos or reading would ruin it. That's all outside stuff, the outside should not exist.

It never even occurred to me that people would bring phones into the shower to actually do things. Never even imagined that that was a thing. Learn something new every day.

[–] Existential_prices@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"Just standing" there, alone with my thoughts" yeah that's the reason I have my phone in with me, usually with whatever show I'm watching at the time, being alone with my thoughts isn't a good thing for me, I need something to focus on so I don't have a stream of consciousness filling up my head.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, that’s really interesting.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I bring mine in shower to play music.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Funnily enough I tend to have most of my "shower thoughts" while listening to music on the bus or train. In the shower I just try to relax and not really think about anything.

[–] Drift@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the shower rn shopping for boxers

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Man the future is crazy. Is it even ethical to resurrect a bioprinted copy of Mohammed Ali just for a chance to have sex with him in the shower?

Imagine being a bioprinted boxer from the 20th century, knowing without knowing how you know, that you’re in the distant future and that the moment you step out of the shower you’ll be painlessly destroyed, but not really caring because you have an irresistible urge for the person ogling you and you seem strangely obsessed with soaping them up.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, that’s really interesting.