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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.
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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.
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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
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.
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Todoroki Simp 3 years ago
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.
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Tabitha Martel 3 years ago
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.
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Very true. And caffeine is like the only drug that they encourage you to use at work.
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Maximilián Dráp 3 years ago
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."
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Juan Ghote 3 years ago
Like the monk that transcribed celebrate to celibate and now all priests are forever punished by essentially a typo... :-)
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John Topper 3 years ago
Man, a lot of coughing on this thread. Maybe I should wear a mask while I browse here.
iseefractals 3 years ago
Religion. Not even a contest. The fact that so many continue to believe it, doesn't change the fact that a growing number of people are opening their eyes to the lie.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
Nothing damages a society more than religion. Just the sex abuse and domestic violence alone is astronomical in "traditional" and "godly" families.
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Delph T 3 years ago
This comment section is just atrocious. Reminds me why I don't like boredpanda followers
Grammarly 3 years ago
Leave. Go on, if you don't like it, we won't miss you.
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VALTISHA PARKER 3 years ago
Get a good education, get a good job, get rich, get an easy life. So untrue! The truth is...Work smart, not hard. Be thankful and content to get more joy in life.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
But what if that lie is "We don't know what the most successful lie in history was because it is still being believed." ?
BenMaharaj 3 years ago
I love how people are listing things they don’t believe in when the statement says it’s about a lie that no one realizes is a lie because we all believe it. I personally am not sure there is such a lie. Humans tend to disagree and question everything, just not the same things. And good historians know that even primary resources came be wrong so there’s always that disclaimer.
Kate Schenk 3 years ago
Why does this bother you so much, cough, cough. I'm not bothering you so, cough, cough, get over it. Cough
censor 3 years ago
so are you just trying to be a conspiracist or do you think that 19 people did not get killed in uvalde?
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Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
How do you know Christianity was/is a lie... Christ definitely lived & it's a poetry powerful "lie" to have stayed around a couple thousand years.
European sparrow 3 years ago (edited)
Every single religion in the entire world. Great if you feel better believing it and be kinder to another person and feel comforted by it. That doesn't make it true.
Enzo Palermo 3 years ago
no, I'm cool with your religion as long as you don't shove it down my throat or up my a*s or try to use it as an excuse for closed minded bigotry. to think Christianity is false is just as sad as believing in it. believe what you want as long as you also believe fact. but I don't think it's sad to not believe in something for which there is no proof.
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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."
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René Studer 3 years ago (edited)
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.
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"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!
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donna peluda 3 years ago
So true, I went to the wolf park and they where much more "leggier" tall and thinner then I expected. Still beautiful animals..
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Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
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
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Juan Ghote 3 years ago
And now "manufactured" stone/granite causes silicosis that's killing installers...
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Juan Ghote 3 years ago
Your 9am may well be my 9pm - Time is relative to the person experiencing it.
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Party Poison 3 years ago
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!
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Black Pearl 3 years ago
I mean, getting stabbed with a sword is getting stabbed with a sword even if you only lose 1 HP
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Black Pearl 3 years ago
You have no idea how many times I've wished pokemon were real. It would be so cool. I also wish dragons were real.
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Scarlett 3 years ago
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.
Danielle Ocasio Fast 3 years ago
Using the swipe text feature on my phone is like typing in cursive 😄
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
I'm used to typing so I can't use the swipe feature without getting annoyed
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Monday 3 years ago
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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Mistiekim 3 years ago
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?
Izabela Wilson 3 years ago (edited)
The natural colour of your lips is the very same colour of your... Sensitive parts down below
Stardust she/her 3 years ago
And the skin on your lips and your b******e is the same.
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Sky Render 3 years ago
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.
Everything is fascinating. 3 years ago
Our brains are weird, those are just words, impossible to comprehend.
Load More Replies... Scarlett 3 years ago
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.
Danielle Ocasio Fast 3 years ago
Using the swipe text feature on my phone is like typing in cursive 😄
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
I'm used to typing so I can't use the swipe feature without getting annoyed
Load More Replies... Monday 3 years ago
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... Mistiekim 3 years ago
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?
Izabela Wilson 3 years ago (edited)
The natural colour of your lips is the very same colour of your... Sensitive parts down below
Stardust she/her 3 years ago
And the skin on your lips and your b******e is the same.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 3 years ago
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.
Everything is fascinating. 3 years ago
Our brains are weird, those are just words, impossible to comprehend.
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