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30 Brilliant Shower Thoughts (New Pics)
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We all have our own shower routine some of us like jamming out and busting out our karaoke skills while others like to take the time to reflect - and judging by the subreddit thread shower thoughts, there is some profound thinking that goes on between suds.
According to the group, a shower idea is "a miniature epiphany that makes the mundane more interesting. Maybe it's all the head scrubbing that knocks out these interesting thoughts, but if you are searching for life's meaning, the answer may be underneath your shower head." Scroll down below to check out more of these soapy epiphanies, and don't forget to upvote these genius ideas!
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While a lot of good and weird thoughts do come to us in the shower a 'shower thought' doesn't have to occur in the shower. The term has come to mean any idea you get while perform a mundane activity. Studies have shown that these epiphany moments usually occur in one of the 3 Bs - bathtub, bed or bus. Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation explains: "When we take time off from working on a problem, we change what we're doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates—distantly—to the problem that we had temporarily put aside.
A lot of funny shower thoughts are silly more than profound, but some famous discoveries have come between scrubs. In 1990 NASA scientists were trying to fix the lenses of the Hubble telescope while it was already in orbit. The engineer on the project Jim Crocker was taking a shower in a German hotel and noticed that the European-style shower was mounted on adjustable rods. That's when it hit him - Hubble's small mirrors could be extended into the telescope if they were mounted in a similar way on folding arms. You never know when clever ideas will hit!
What is it about the shower that makes it the perfect environment to think? Our brain releases its best ideas when dopamine is triggered, which can occur during a warm shower. At the same time we are in a relaxed state and thus more likely to reflect inward. Lastly we are distracted. Activities like washing the dishes or washing ourselves are so automatic that it give our brain a break and allows our subconscious time to play in a more creative way.
when being a parent you don't realize that watching your kid grow up, you are also growing up with them.
In some ways the cavemen were smarter and other ways dumber. There survival rates where ridulously low. But they are the ones that came up with some of the most vital things we still use in modern times. We now rely on technology more to do things for us that we are becoming lazy. They started the beginning of our existence and we are destroying it.
The one about language really struck me, as I was chatting with my cashier at Wal Mart last week -- she was lamenting her English, although really it was quite good -- but as we were chatting she told me she was an accountant in her native country and has a degree in business management, but here (US) she is working at Wal Mart while she tries to improve her English. She was obviously intelligent and driven, she was definitely warm and friendly, and I can't help but wonder how many redneck idiots in my area treat her badly for her English when they go through her line. As much as I enjoyed talking to her, I really hope next time I'm in there I won't see her -- because I hope by then she'll be on to something where she gets the respect she deserves.
Must be truly frustrating to be highly educated in one country and finding yourself somewhere you initially struggle with the language.
And where I live, which is rural and not high educated, I'm sure she's looked down on by people with a quarter of her class and work ethic, just because her English is broken.
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Sadly this is so very often the case! I see it everywhere. Not least in my own family.
I work with a gentlemen from somewhere in Africa, and when he started most treated him like he was an idiot because his English wasn't that great. After getting to know him, he speaks 5 other languages and has one hell of a work ethic. I taught how to weld and other things, like the different slang, some good some bad lol, about our holidays, just the general things that us Americans do, plus I'd listen to any questions he'd have. Anyways, after about 5 years of working with him he started to get promoted, and know he is a supervisor that most respect. It gives me a good feeling know that once people realized who is was and not what they thought, they gave him a chance.
Next time if you see her, you should suggest to her to start an accounting business, and suggest she make her primary clientel people who speak her language. Or at least suggest she start offering to help people in her community with finances and/or taxes.
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Great list of thoughts. Enjoyed reading them : )
No they've cut these down! There's only 30 now. *shakes fist* damn you, bored panda gods!
Really! Why????
My shower thought today: I am 100% more motivated to wake up when there is leftover pizza in the fridge. It's better than an alarm clock.
true
Half of these aren't r/shower thoughts, theyre r/mindfuck
In paintball, you should be allowed to use a paintbrush as a knife.
why does bored panda always delte a huge part of the list after they upload it. Like there were 120+ before now it's only 30
Damn why did BP cut the article? It went from 154 to 30? Hmmph.
A copy paste of Minerva15's comment- For all of you wondering why the list was cut is because BP may have taken some of the submissions without the original posters consent, then they learned of this article and asked BP to remove their submission.
I was in the shower when I realized we do not see three dimensions... we see two. Shadows just make us aware that we exist in three dimensions.
If your eyes are shut in flash photos, you are literally faster than the speed of light.
The title said '154 Shower Thought...' but I only see #103. I feel like there's 51 shower-thoughts that are missing or lost...
It's down to 30 now, although they did change the tittle. A shame, but you can go to the actual sub reddit to read more of the responses if you like.
I always found it kind of gross that when swimming in a pool with other people you are likely to accidentally drink some of the pool water. This water has touched every body part of everyone in that pool. Even if you don't drink it, it still gets in your eyes, ears etc.
Dude, that's what chlorine is for...
That's right. Because dangerously overweight people have no idea that they are overweight without your commentary. And they don't deserve to feel beautiful by people who find overweight people attractive.
Kia Dragon what
For all of you wondering why the list was cut is because BP may have taken some of the submissions without the original posters consent, then they learned of this article and asked BP to remove their submission.
I should shower more often :(
These are great food for thought!
Oh, sweet. High thoughts.
You have a personal cashier? Thats pretty damn dope!
I heard that showering makes you creative because it ionizes the air. Don't know if there's real science behind it.
I liked some. I hated some because they're just very wrong (no actual knowing). I hate the thought that people should take long showers to have some ideas.
Where'd the rest (#31-#102) go? i was in the middle of reading em!
They're originally from Reddit, the original posters may not have felt comfortable of their comments being used for other purposes. I know this for a fact because Reddit often gets annoyed at Bored Panda for doing this.
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The one about language really struck me, as I was chatting with my cashier at Wal Mart last week -- she was lamenting her English, although really it was quite good -- but as we were chatting she told me she was an accountant in her native country and has a degree in business management, but here (US) she is working at Wal Mart while she tries to improve her English. She was obviously intelligent and driven, she was definitely warm and friendly, and I can't help but wonder how many redneck idiots in my area treat her badly for her English when they go through her line. As much as I enjoyed talking to her, I really hope next time I'm in there I won't see her -- because I hope by then she'll be on to something where she gets the respect she deserves.
Must be truly frustrating to be highly educated in one country and finding yourself somewhere you initially struggle with the language.
And where I live, which is rural and not high educated, I'm sure she's looked down on by people with a quarter of her class and work ethic, just because her English is broken.
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Sadly this is so very often the case! I see it everywhere. Not least in my own family.
I work with a gentlemen from somewhere in Africa, and when he started most treated him like he was an idiot because his English wasn't that great. After getting to know him, he speaks 5 other languages and has one hell of a work ethic. I taught how to weld and other things, like the different slang, some good some bad lol, about our holidays, just the general things that us Americans do, plus I'd listen to any questions he'd have. Anyways, after about 5 years of working with him he started to get promoted, and know he is a supervisor that most respect. It gives me a good feeling know that once people realized who is was and not what they thought, they gave him a chance.
Next time if you see her, you should suggest to her to start an accounting business, and suggest she make her primary clientel people who speak her language. Or at least suggest she start offering to help people in her community with finances and/or taxes.
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Great list of thoughts. Enjoyed reading them : )
No they've cut these down! There's only 30 now. *shakes fist* damn you, bored panda gods!
Really! Why????
My shower thought today: I am 100% more motivated to wake up when there is leftover pizza in the fridge. It's better than an alarm clock.
true
Half of these aren't r/shower thoughts, theyre r/mindfuck
In paintball, you should be allowed to use a paintbrush as a knife.
why does bored panda always delte a huge part of the list after they upload it. Like there were 120+ before now it's only 30
Damn why did BP cut the article? It went from 154 to 30? Hmmph.
A copy paste of Minerva15's comment- For all of you wondering why the list was cut is because BP may have taken some of the submissions without the original posters consent, then they learned of this article and asked BP to remove their submission.
I was in the shower when I realized we do not see three dimensions... we see two. Shadows just make us aware that we exist in three dimensions.
If your eyes are shut in flash photos, you are literally faster than the speed of light.
The title said '154 Shower Thought...' but I only see #103. I feel like there's 51 shower-thoughts that are missing or lost...
It's down to 30 now, although they did change the tittle. A shame, but you can go to the actual sub reddit to read more of the responses if you like.
I always found it kind of gross that when swimming in a pool with other people you are likely to accidentally drink some of the pool water. This water has touched every body part of everyone in that pool. Even if you don't drink it, it still gets in your eyes, ears etc.
Dude, that's what chlorine is for...
That's right. Because dangerously overweight people have no idea that they are overweight without your commentary. And they don't deserve to feel beautiful by people who find overweight people attractive.
Kia Dragon what
For all of you wondering why the list was cut is because BP may have taken some of the submissions without the original posters consent, then they learned of this article and asked BP to remove their submission.
I should shower more often :(
These are great food for thought!
Oh, sweet. High thoughts.
You have a personal cashier? Thats pretty damn dope!
I heard that showering makes you creative because it ionizes the air. Don't know if there's real science behind it.
I liked some. I hated some because they're just very wrong (no actual knowing). I hate the thought that people should take long showers to have some ideas.
Where'd the rest (#31-#102) go? i was in the middle of reading em!
They're originally from Reddit, the original posters may not have felt comfortable of their comments being used for other purposes. I know this for a fact because Reddit often gets annoyed at Bored Panda for doing this.
This comment has been deleted.