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35 Hilarious And Brilliant Realizations People Had In The Shower, As Shared By This Online Community (New Pics)
Let’s get one thing clear: the shower may be a great place to sing your heart out, but it’s even better to get those creative ideas flowing. Just think about it, you’re in an enclosed space with warm comforting water, and your mind is simply roaming where it wants to. Suddenly, you realize you’re doing much more than just mindlessly shampooing your hair — you’re allowing your brain to find brilliant fleeting thoughts you can’t wait to share with everyone else.
There’s one corner over on Reddit that eagerly waits for you to do so. Let us introduce you to the Shower Thoughts online group that serves as the perfect outlet to share those "miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar." With over 24 million members, it has archived quite the collection of unexpected, hilarious, and profound Aha! moments.
We have scoured the community and gathered some of the best gems of wisdom that might leave you pondering all day, so have a read through them right below. Upvote the ones that surprised you most and share your own earth-shattering ideas with us in the comments! After you’re done musing about this compilation, be sure to check out our earlier parts of this post right here, here, and here.
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The shower is one of the very few places where people can be alone with their thoughts. While it’s the perfect place to get some deep thinking done, the eureka effect occurs virtually anywhere we let our minds stay still. According to the moderators of the community, "'Showerthought' is a loose term that applies to the types of thoughts you might have while carrying out a routine task ... At their best, showerthoughts are universally relatable and find the amusing/interesting within the mundane." Whether it’s taking a long walk, meditating, or simply laying on the grass watching the clouds pass by, these are the calm moments that really rejuvenate the brain.
To learn more about how doing nothing can boost our creativity, we reached out to Nancy K. Napier, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Boise State University and author of Unfolding Curiosity: Wrinkles and Surprises from Business and Beyond. "Several authors, including one of my favorites — Pico Iyer — talk about the value of stillness, of silence, of doing nothing," she told Bored Panda.
They are both true, we just have many different freedoms.
According to the professor, even when we think we're doing nothing, our brains keep on buzzing. "I've begun strength training and have learned that you should do it one day and then 'rest' the next, to give your muscles time to readjust, recover, and revive," she said. But when it comes to exercising our minds, we bend over backward to get those brain cells going and often forget to give our thoughts a breather. "I feel that way when I 'do nothing' in my work or thinking — it gives my mind some time to readjust (to not pushing so hard), to recover (from hard work and thinking), and to revive (and play with something that may not have had a chance to pop up)," Napier explained.
When i was first reading it, i thought it said "when you ar wearing noise" and I was so confused
The professor suspects that if we let our minds rest during work hours, just as we have a "rest day" in exercise, we'll see benefits and perhaps generate new ideas fairly quickly. After all, nearly everyone knows how drained we feel after several hours of tiring consecutive work. Then, coming up with beautiful innovative ideas is far from an easy task. But if we pause regularly during the day and give our brains a little break from thinking, we might avoid hitting creative burnout.
"Years ago, I worked with a group of faculty members (five of us, very different fields, ways of thinking) to design a new academic program. We started with an empty whiteboard for every meeting. After a few false starts, we learned to trust that we would have some great ideas by the end of each meeting. By removing the expectation and pressure of being creative, we became dramatically more competent at finding ideas. We allowed 'nothing' to be our starting point and that freed us to generate some great (and many not-so-great) ideas," Napier added.
Yes!!! I explain this to people but they don't always believe me. Certain things I can google quite proficiently and other things I prefer my husband to search or a friend.
Depends on previous googles. If you are someone who searches for scientific knowledge regularly, the suggestions will tend to show that. For some people typing "Mercury" will give us the melting temp of the metal, for others it will give album titles.
Load More Replies...I read a book, decades ago, where a character specialising in getting online information and his skill is about knowing the 'right question to ask' This book was written before the internet was invented..
Do you remember the name of the book? It sounds interesting.
Load More Replies...Here let's help y'all. One of the most useful is "site". For example, if you do not want batchit crazy stuff on vaccines, add "Site:edu" at the end of your search. You end up getting only university results. Specifically from USA. If you want british university responses, use, "Site: ac.uk" etc. If you want a PRODUCT, search "site:.com" at the end. If you want an NGO, add "Site:.org" at the end. etc etc.
There's also the matter of looking at the links and deciding which ones to click - how to recognize propaganda or which ones are offering fake advice that is just a sales pitch for their product
you can use special characters to search (-,*,a tilde, etc) check out googleguide.com. they explain all of them.
Yes! My husband is appalling at google. He will spend 15 minutes searching for something that I can find in seconds. I dont know what he does wrong but he just sucks at it.
Mine's the same... though mine is dyslexic and he'll usually have some weird spelling combo going on.
Load More Replies...True. Challenge an information manager (AKA Librarian) to a google race. Prepare for humiliation
True. I always have to Google things for my mother because for some reason she can never find anything that I can find in a few seconds.
Some "Google" tricks - "put your search in quotes" and it will ONLY search for that - place a dash -before a word, and it will exclude that word from the search - use file:png for searching just .png files (does work with other types) - use site:sitename to search a specific site (do not include the http or www stuff) - use the keyword sitemap and then the website's name and you can usually see the directories of the public side of a site
Quite a lot of effective use of Google comes down to effective expressing of what it is you're looking for. "That thing about a color that came out in the late 90s" is going to give you a lot less useful results than "blue music video", for example.
Correct! I have an MLIS which is also a "Fancy Googling Degree" (I'm a librarian)
This can also be taken as: some people can Google vaccine and make a doctor's appointment, and other's Google vaccine and learn it's Satan's sperm and will kill us.
Google is getting frustrating though. They used to have symbols such as plus and minus to help narrow your search. Those do not work anymore. I still find things well, but I wish they go back to the reasonable way of doing things.
True. I really felt that when I would spend Saturday mornings googling the answers my dad hadn't filled in on the general knowledge crossword as a teen.
Information Technology. Computer repair is mainly this. Having an understanding of enough of the technology to be able to Google the repair that you need. I would say this is probably somewhere around 75% of my job.
Depends on how you phrase the question. Google is pretty good at figuring things out when l can't seem to correctly ask what l want to know.
Not necessarily. Sometimes it's just luck. I Googled where to find propane tanks and propane refills locally and looked at them all. Prices for tanks were over double what they were last year, so out of curiosity I googled to track the increase in price and found a new local source that was the cheapest by far, over 25% less than anyone.
It is a skill, many people don't take into consideration the need to examine a variety of sources & not just dismiss some b/c it's not what they wanted to hear. Good research requires taking & comparing information from all sides, old sources & new, etc. and weighing it all together using intelligence (to the best of their ability) & common sense to come to as close as an accurate conclusion one can get...except, not all have a good degree of either intelligence or common sense which is probably why bad info spreads like wildfire 🤔
Especially depending on what you know and how you go about searching for it.
My husband declared he hates Google News because it only shows him videos. Quit clicking on the little boxes with triangles on thumbnail images!!! Why does he not understand this? Also can't make him understand what the 3 little dots under thumbnail are for. "See less of this" But seriously: QUIT CLICKING ON TRIANGLES!!!
I can't figure out why my daughter can't find things on the internet that I find in seconds. She grew up with Google.
I believe anyone can find accurate results if they pay attention to the site names to which Google directs them. Maybe.
My friend John and I won an iInternet search competition 2 years in a row in high school. 2001 and 2002. Yeah I was a jock.
That's because most people just try to find an answer the real key to a successful Google search is knowing the correct question to ask
Depending on the internet connection: I was the only person in my Spanish class with a paperback dictionary instead of a smartphone, and I always beat everyone to the correct information. I can only assume it was because the wifi was slow at the college we went to...
Most people are looking for confirmation bias answers, not to be disproven.
I'm a google master! Other people not having the common sense to try a few different questions/search words when the first one didn't pan out really baffles me. I know non-skilled googlers exist. Not throwing shade at anyone. I just can't wrap my mind around how someone can be bad at using a search engine
Being a real good Googler is how I got nominated for my office’s unofficial IT position 😅😂
It also takes skill to recognize that the result you just pulled up to prove someone wrong really doesn't support your view 😉.
Very true. And caffeine is like the only drug that they encourage you to use at work.
it's because people tend to unite easier against something, than to unite for something
Unfortunately, the modern world makes it hard for our minds to wander into the wilderness of unrelated thoughts. We’re constantly bombarded by daunting headlines, interrupted by our ringing devices, and feeling the weight of our personal and professional responsibilities every second of the day. So even when we strive to be peaceful and at ease, we find it extremely difficult to do so. Luckily for us, Napier explained that increasing our creativity doesn’t require much effort.
"I have a brutal commute from my home to my office — in heavy traffic, it can be....nine minutes! I'm lucky, of course, but realized a few years ago that even that amount of time could help me 'do nothing' and become more creative," she said and added that simply driving in silence to a place she knows how to get to without thinking made a huge difference. "I generated ideas, I solved problems, I came up with new dinner meals… It's a very simple act that I've recommended to many people who have real commutes — 20 or 30 or 45 minutes."
Like the monk that transcribed celebrate to celibate and now all priests are forever punished by essentially a typo... :-)
However, turning off the audio book or radio can be challenging for many people, so she suggests starting with one day a week or in the evenings on the way home. "Now that we're working from home more, however, it seems harder to find that clear cut quiet or 'nothing time,'" Napier noted. "I've been trying (not fully successfully, I'll admit) to take 30 minutes after my morning work time to just lie down, go into that semi-sleep mode, and boom, good ideas seem to come then. Once again, by giving my brain a little 'downtime,' it continues to work but maybe goes at its own pace and then drops some creativity on its own time."
There are several animals I‘d prefer to be alive over some people.
Napier pointed out that to become better at doing nothing, we have to "find activities that don't require heavy thought and use that as a time to let your brain wander; or have a set routine or habit that builds in some snippets of downtime." The professor mentioned several pockets of time that allows her to be in a relaxed state, have a distracted mind and let her imaginations run free. For example, her commute, taking a shower and making a coffee or a tea are short periods of time when she doesn't have to think.
Moreover, she sets the alarm to work for 40 minutes and then stop for 10, using that as downtime. "Some people lie down on a yoga mat and just meditate or sleep; ironing (20 minutes); laundry folding (5-10 minutes). Then, there are the specific gifts of time I offer to myself — when I declare I'll take an hour in the day to look at the clouds or birds," she said and added that while this doesn't happen often enough, she continues to work on it.
"I suspect now, more than ever, we need the self-care of doing nothing now and then, and we need to make it something that happens regularly, not just when we're forced into it (when we get sick, injured)," Napier told us. So our advice for you today, dear readers, is to allow yourselves to be bored and witness how quickly you can come up with fascinating and deep musings. If you have any other ideas on how to get better at doing absolutely nothing, let us know about them in the comments!
So true, I went to the wolf park and they where much more "leggier" tall and thinner then I expected. Still beautiful animals..
Well yeah, there's a webcomic called "The Little Trashmaid" which works off this exact premise: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-little-trashmaid/list?title_no=300138&page=1
And now "manufactured" stone/granite causes silicosis that's killing installers...
Your 9am may well be my 9pm - Time is relative to the person experiencing it.
No single person should have more than (random high number!) 100 million dollars. Everything over that amount should go to contributing society not a single rich a*****e's penis shaped rocket flight!
I mean, getting stabbed with a sword is getting stabbed with a sword even if you only lose 1 HP
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I read a heck of a post on Tumblr a while back that’s haunted me. Have you ever looked at someone and wondered how they moaned during sex? Because I hadn’t before reading that post and now sometimes I do.
Using the swipe text feature on my phone is like typing in cursive 😄
I'm used to typing so I can't use the swipe feature without getting annoyed
Load More Replies...Normally...my brother received a stuffed bear as his first ever gift though, he was nameless for a good two hours after birth.
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The natural colour of your lips is the very same colour of your... Sensitive parts down below
And the skin on your lips and your b******e is the same.
Load More Replies...If you could count 1 atom per Planck time instant, it would still take over 2*10^42 (2 tredecillion) years to count every atom in the observable universe. That's about 144 nonillion times longer than the observable universe has existed.
Our brains are weird, those are just words, impossible to comprehend.
Load More Replies...I read a heck of a post on Tumblr a while back that’s haunted me. Have you ever looked at someone and wondered how they moaned during sex? Because I hadn’t before reading that post and now sometimes I do.
Using the swipe text feature on my phone is like typing in cursive 😄
I'm used to typing so I can't use the swipe feature without getting annoyed
Load More Replies...Normally...my brother received a stuffed bear as his first ever gift though, he was nameless for a good two hours after birth.
Load More Replies...Why do a lot of country songs include a line about a girl sliding right on over in the guy’s truck? There is no way a girl could do that in any modern truck. Also why are tattoos and piercings looked down on as not professional yet make-up and cosmetic surgery (like nose job, lips plumped, etc) is perfectly ok?
The natural colour of your lips is the very same colour of your... Sensitive parts down below
And the skin on your lips and your b******e is the same.
Load More Replies...If you could count 1 atom per Planck time instant, it would still take over 2*10^42 (2 tredecillion) years to count every atom in the observable universe. That's about 144 nonillion times longer than the observable universe has existed.
Our brains are weird, those are just words, impossible to comprehend.
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