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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.
It is so wierd how they inhabit planets they can live on. So wierd omg yes
Load More Replies...not really, you could inhabit a planet with different gravity if it provided close ratio of oxygen and water to earth. The gravity just determines things like how strong your bones are, or how far you can jump.
Load More Replies...And how every planet only has one biome - Desert Planet, Ice Planet etc. If all of them are in Goldilock zones they would have much more variety
At least Star Trek had planet classifications based on gravity/oxygen/etc and actually occasionally acknowledged differences. Though, Wars just shows planets people can survive on, that are”human(oid) normal”, so they don’t really need to branch off in to ones that are not. More nitty-gritty than they needed.
"This is an 'M'class planet, so there should be plenty of Roddenberries to eat."
Load More Replies...It's the Goldilocks principle. You would only spend billions terraforming a hospitable planet. A planet that had gravity like Earth and oxygen like Earth. In other words, a planet that's 'just right'.
But many weren't colonized planets, they are inhabited by life forms that evolved there, eventually discovered space travel, and joined one of the galactic orders. For this to make sense, we would have to assume intelligent life could only evolve under a specific range of conditions, one of those being gravity. Or assume that species from gravitational extremes just don't interact?
Load More Replies...If the planet is the home of humans, then this isn't convenient; it's planning.
Gravity has nothing to do with being habitable, how do you think our astronauts survive on the space station?
Load More Replies...I think this a lot when I watch my favorite sci-fi series Stargate. It’s convenient that it’s always light outside when they arrive on a planet, temperate weather, and everyone mysteriously speaks English.
Well, the english-, thing was explained by some translation-thingy, i'm pretty sure. And on Stargate Atlantis, they don't always enter during the day. Or even to dry land
Load More Replies...The Expanse is supposed to have very low-gravity environments but due to budget constraints they have a hard time selling that. Especially how all the people just look like normal earth-gravity people.
There's a pretty effective scene in one of the first episodes where the Earth police are torturing a Belter for information. The torture consists entirely of making him stand up. Earth's gravity does the rest.
Load More Replies...And that they all have breathable atmospheres when many of them have neither a valid photosynthesis paradigm in place, nor any kind of technological explanation.
I like how The Orville has characters from a planet of massively different gravity level.
And has just one ecosystem. Desert planets, ice planets, water planets, jungle planets, etc.
As convenient as the TARDIS translating every language to English, though at least there they gave you a reason :)
Hahaha.... Read all the books, seen all the movies-that is true! But in reality would be impossible, I'm sure
Yes, unbeknownst to them, the force is within them all.... Them suckers be heavy 😜
And oxygen levels... and stellar brightness... and absence of toxic gasses... and temperature range... even if you're fighting directly over molten lava! (This is why science-fiction fans regard it as "space fantasy," even though so many love it so much.)
Yeah Star Wars, where's the jumpy castle planet?! I would watch that
The planets we've "visited" via Star Wars.I don't know that the mostly humanoid species thus far shown would have much interest in going some place where the gravity would be too strong or too weak for such beings to move around effectively.
Or they only populate and inhabit planets that have a breathable atmosphere AND a gravity force that falls within a “habitable” range? 💁🏼♂️
Only the planets they Inhabit. Many plants are avoided because they cannot support life properly. Plus watching the story of established settlements...so one could assume they have made adjustments to living on planets with similar gravity either heavier or lighter...yes star wars nerd and proud of it.
It makes sense that it would be a tolerable enough force for complex life to develop.
It's infinite planets....we just see the few that have the same gravity! (Don't try to ruin Star Wars for me, lol)
That’s a common theme in most science fiction in front of the camera. Along with uniform climates and ever member of an alien species is in all respects exactly like the first one we ie all changlings are Odo
Not really. Space faring people would naturally look for a planet with suitable living conditions, and that includes one with the right level of gravity. Besides, Have you seen how far those Jedi can jump? They were clearly trained on a planet with a massive gravity.
Well, within plus-or-minus five percent, say. Maybe even more, if there were other attractions. Minerals, game, Ewoks....
It's a galaxy with space magic and the fact that life lives on the livable planets is what's "convenient?"
Gravity has nothing to do with being livable, why do people think life needs a set amount of gravity? Do y'all think our astronauts are slowly dying on the space station from lack of gravity?
Load More Replies...It's a galaxy with space magic and the fact that life lives on livable planets is what's "convenient?"
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..
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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