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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.
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..
So we are monsters for killing animals to survive? What about the animals that kill for food? Or what about the animals that just kill for fun? I can't stand when people say how awful we are for eating and surviving! We definitely weren't meant to eat leaves that's for damn sure!
Load More Replies...queueing up animals, breaking up their families, shooting them in the head in front of their herd, shoving a big hook through them, and then using a large grinder to cut them in half and have their guts fall all over the floor, is nothing short of a horror movie at its most extreme. It's disgusting and barbaric.
We truly are, I watched a farmer cut the ears off corn stalks, the eyes out of potatoes....the horror! Both go well with a steak btw!
Load More Replies...I am vegetarian so don’t eat meat or fish…I sometimes think people are monsters for killing animals but would never force my opinion on anyone
You are the kind of vegetarian I have no issues with!! And I don't ask vegetarians, how they don't eat meat. It's just rude.
Load More Replies...Plenty of people already do think that, and even those of us who still eat meat on occasion know the methods used to raise and slaughter that meat very much make us monsters. It didn't used to be that egregious, but the rise of McDonalds and other fast food places has necessitated atrocious methods, and we all know that. Yet so many continue to passively support such practices because "nom nom nom" I"M SO BUSY "nom nom nom" IT'S SO CHEAP"
Actually with almost 7 Billion people on earth, that's what necessitates it actually. Not just fast food.. nice try though
Load More Replies...People who ave stopped eating meat already harbour this suspicion.....
We already have GMO, and not only crops. Everything that was cultivated or bred is a GMO or genetic modified organism. Dogs, all common crops, apples, bananas, etc. We have fed the world for most of humankind's history with GMO's.
Load More Replies...We still have to feed pets, zoo animals, etc. We cannot stop farming animals, even if it is just for other animals. Carnivores cannot be forced to be vegetarian.
Plus you'll have crazy lab-meat rights supporters trying to stop people eating it as well.
okay ur not wrong... that vegan teacher starting to protest against lab grown meat:
Load More Replies...The truth is, if we didn't need to eat all those animals, there would be a LOT fewer of them, and the realization that we no longer need them, followed by the process of getting rid of them, will be equally horrific. If we don't need herds of cows, there is no point in feeding them, and no farmer will feed an animal they can't profit off of...there aren't enough sanctuaries in the world for all those animals, and you can bet governments will step in. Not to mention, humans have devastating the predator populations of the world, so they will be unable to keep the prey populations in check...it is likely cullings will become increasingly necessary. We will be overrun with deer pretty quickly, otherwise.
Still gotta make pet food/zoo animal food. It can't just go away.
Load More Replies...While wearing their VR headsets to kill thousands of enemy soldiers in a videogame
We'll never completely go to eating fake meat, unless a nefarious world government punishes freedom. Those crying about over population of humans will see what real over population looks like if humans stop consuming animals. Not to mention the evil of forcing people to buy a maga corporation's product for what they can acquire for free. Sounds familiar come to think of it...
I've thought if this often. People will look back at meat eaters the way we look back at slave owners.
In modern era humanity has achieved some marvelous beautiful things but sadly we also achieved master level in mass murdering all kinds of living beings. If we will remembered as atrocious as we deserve, it would mean that our children learn how to live better. Let's hope..
As a Boomer, I know we will be considered monsters for so many reasons.
We ARE monsters not only for factory farming, but for killing the oceans by overfishing, destroying the rainforests for grazing cattle ( also so we can eat the cattle), by polluting the rivers to build, by destroying entire Ecosystems for profit and greed, by destroying the ice shelf and Antarctic because of our needs etc etc etc. IF generations from now there even ARE people they will not only wonder why we killed BILLIONS of land animals every single day, and TRILLIONS of marine species, but wonder why we could not see what we had… the rainforests, the oceans, the desserts, the attic, the forests, the shake, the elephants, thd tigers, the birds etc…. Humans are the literal plague of this planet.😕
Children of the future will ask their parents which role they played during the animal holocaust.
Lab grown meat would deprive cows,pigs, chickens and some other animals of life all together because we would have no need to breed them
There's a charming old story of a future with vat-grown meat. There's a new kind out that everyone is just crazy for... leading to a lawsuit involving an ancient word, "C A N N I B A L"...
I beg to differ. They may think of us who killed animals for food as uncivilized, not monsters. Do we think the Roman gladiators who killed animals and each other for entertainment as monsters? No we don't. They were uncivilized, not monsters. It will be the same things with our future generations. That being said, I still suspect a section of their society will still kill animals for food.
no, monsters. We are monsters. From your name I see you are Muslim, which I believe means you prefer Halaal meat which has been bled to death and manually killed. Please go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60g4fIbUR3E and watch it. If you do not think that is monstrous, there is something wrong with you.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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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