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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.
There's probably enough in one country. Each 'load' has hundreds of millions..
This is why jerking off should be illegal. It's murder...all those sperms going to waste. Pro lifers, make it happen
Load More Replies...Well, for both logistical and legal grounds it wouldn´t be easy (though the latter might be changed rather quickly). Many regions would probably become deserted, and after the original batches they´d have to wait for many years to get some new stuff. Of course it would be great for earth, loosing half of humanity in an instant and then gradually more over the next decades.
I am beginning to think that wouldn't be a bad thing. Almost all of mass shooting, wars, child molesting and bad politics are done by men. How many OLD, OLD men are making decisions in the supreme court and Senate?
For a generation or three, maybe, humanity's track record with finite resources isn't exactly "good"
I love all the women jumping in "oh how the world would be a better place" like yer sh*t don't stink. Aye we're the only ones with bad habits, bad attitudes and the inability to treat people well.
Absolutely not. Of course there are shitty women out there as individuals BUT men (as a group) are statistically over represented in areas of violence, rape, war etc etc. And our current power structures are built by men (patriarchy) that damage both women and men (not to the same extent though). With those structures women will always be oppressed. I don't think a majority of women wants to rule the world by themselves but we'd like to even out the play field and have equality and equity. For women AND men. This would be one option (not a real one of course) to "restart" the system. These questions are never about individual people.
Load More Replies...Genuine question. 1. Trans women as in MtF people. Would they be effected by this? Because how would men disappear. If it was men as in people who identify as men then why only them who disappear? What made them disappear? If not then is it biological? Is it a genetics thing? Lots of questions
Men, anyone who looks like a man, anyone who acts like a man, anyone who thinks like a man, anyone stupid enough to want to be a man. Every last one of them gone. Then we need to figure out how to weed out the Republicans from the remaining gene pool...
Load More Replies...Thinking abt the man who fathered over 15 babies via sperm donations but *forgot* to tell the mothers that he has Fragile X syndrome, that's a scary thought.
Maybe we could actually reach equality and equity that way (maybe the only way, sadly.) Even if the children that are born are half male those would be raised by women as a group and maybe have better odds to not fall into gender norms and we could hopefully get rid of sexism. Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying every woman is a saint and every man is the devil. Or that I think women should have more power than men (absolutely not). But we have been living under patriarchal structures so long, and men as a group are responsible for a lot of oppression. They are over represented regarding violence, rape, abuse of power etc and have a huge privilege in many ways. Like the male body is norm and therefore women's bodies are treated less, in healthcare and even during sex. So many levels. And so many especially men (but also women through internalized misogyny) want to keep it that way by not accepting feminism for example. So...
I think that's why it said the human race would continue. Because there would indeed be a new generation which would procreate.
Load More Replies...Sperm can be created in a lab, now, although it's also not strictly necessary to use them to have babies. Most people do prefer to do it the old-fashioned way.
there are probably enough in one sperm bank, there are hundreds of millions of viable sperm in one load
Probably not enough genetic diversity, though, for a long-term healthy population
There is a great New Zealand comedy series about this called Creamery.
That would make a great SciFi film. If all the men were eradicated from a freak virus and humanity had to survive from sperm banks. My idea. You big film companies come and have a chat.
There's enough sitting in a dried up sock in some kids room. you joking right 🤣
It sounds like the next wave of humanity will be extremely generous. Constantly broke and playing with themselves.
probably should leave that one in the bag. That's how the Amazon got started
False, cause remnant women would kill each other by who has a better hair.
Maybe for a little while, but it wouldn't last anywhere near as long as some would like
maybe, although those samples degrade over time, and their genetic material starts to break down. If men disappeared forever, then so would the human race. It also depends on what you mean by "men". In "Y: The Last Man", all biological males die off. That means male insects, mammals, fish, plants (yes many plants have gender). The food chain would be obliterated, and within a few years all complex life on Earth would be extinct. Even bisexual plants (which most plants are) still need pollinators. Potheads, cannabis plants for example are either male of female, for pollination to occur, you need both genders present nearby. Gingko is the same, as are some fruit trees.
I’d imagine genetic diversity would be the biggest issue as there are fewer donors than women, so there’d lots of repeats.
That is assuming every adult woman on Earth would (consent to being impregnated by random sperm, or that every adult woman on Earth is physically capable of being impregnated.
It would fail miserably... The world would be ran by women. No way they get along with each other.
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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