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People Are Sharing Their Best Shower Thoughts, And Here Are 30 Of The Most Impressive Ones (New Pics)
You're in the shower, the running water sounds like a rainy static, and you're all soaped up. Suddenly, a brilliant thought flashes in your head. Whether it's the perfect comeback in an argument you lost the other day or a solution to a vexing work problem, the insight is there and you need to write it down before it goes down the drain.
And I have a suggestion on where to do it. A subreddit called r/ShowerThoughts. This online community unites over 20 million people who share and discuss their profound eureka gems, and has archived quite the collection since its creation in October 2011. Continue scrolling to check out some of the most popular posts on the subreddit, and fire up Bored Panda's earlier shower thoughts lists here and here to get more everyday philosophical answers.
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"The content on r/ShowerThoughts is quite diverse," /u/IranianGenius, of the subreddit's moderators, told Bored Panda. "The shower thoughts that get more recognition tend to be more unique, yet indicative of the human experience. They are often topical."
The moderator believes that r/ShowerThoughts has become so big because many people are introverts, or have an otherwise introverted side that tends to let the mind wander. "I think the interrelatedness between our realities allows our thoughts to often be similar and merge, and that helps with the popularity of the subreddit."
Interestingly, there haven't been a lot of experiments on why we get such random insights. However, WIRED presented one theory, describing a mental state that could provoke them: the default mode network.
"You become less aware of your environment and more aware of your internal thoughts,” said John Kounios, a psychologist who studies creativity and distraction at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
These activities are physically or mentally demanding, but only on a mild level. They also need to be familiar or comfortable enough that a person stays engaged but doesn't get bored, and last long enough to allow an uninterrupted stream of thought.
Kounios said that our brains typically catalog things by their context: windows are parts of buildings, the stars belong in the night sky, and so on. Ideas will always mingle to some degree, but when we’re focused on a specific task our thinking tends to be linear.
Post-apocaliptic movie. You are sitting by your shortwave radio. It's been three months since the world collapsed. You are alone in a strange land. Static in your radio non-stop. You are about to turn it off whrn you hear "Is anybody out there?!". Music intensifies as your heartbeat does.
To explain this process, the psychologist likes to use this example: imagine that you have a stack of bricks in your yard and you walk by them every day. You hardly give them a second thought, right? And if asked, you'd describe them as a building material. However, one day in the shower, something makes you think of your neighbor's walnut tree, and all the nuts that have been falling in your yard. They probably are very tasty. Boom, you realize that you can smash those nuts open using the bricks in your yard.
The bricks may not be the best nutcrackers in your house, but this example perfectly illustrates how the default mode network frees the things in your brain from external associations.
I'm a historian. What bothers me it the pick-&-choose attitude of those who say that they want to 'go back to simpler times.' Go back? Sure, but you can't pick-&-choose what you want to experience. Like...MAGA hat wearers. Sure, let's go back to the 1940s or so. Bring back segregation, lack of educational options, polio, lack of our current high tech, functional illiteracy among 25% of adults, hating Russians instead of liking them... *smh* I've fielded these illusions for years. -Dr M
Or as my mom use to say, 'he/she was a fool when they were younger, now they're just an old fool.
I’m still uncomfortable with the fact that since we have a daughter, my parents know my husband and I have had sex at least once.
Looks like I'm not a real adult lol. Dinner tonight was cheesy toasties and the dishes are still in the sink.
Sadly, nowadays the tik tok generation already has kids... that do tik toks
Thank you, Keanu Reeves, for raising elevator shaft awareness with Speed and The Matrix.
Oh definitely, my Dad has been disappointing me since he got married to a mail order bride.
My vet has a candle at the front desk. When the candle is lit, it means a family is saying goodbye to their pet. People In the waiting area are then asked to keep their voices down out of respect to that family.
Oh yes, I absolutely LOVE Christmas shopping and then watching people open the gifts. I put a lot of time and care in the gifts I buy and make.
Wagner was introduced to me by Bugs Bunny, not my grandfather, the Lutheran minister...
I think it was Caller ID that did that. If I don’t recognize the name or number of the person calling, I let it go to voicemail.
No, because over time a lot of content will also disappear because of websites that are closed down, flushing of obsolete data, migrating to new standards and means of storage et cetera. Just think of all the data on tape reels, zip drives, floppy disks and 8mm film that have become inaccesable.
That and people who say "life isn't fair." Self fulfilling prophecies.
I was very proud that I used the same text book for my classes at the college for over 20 years. The bookstore, however, never liked me.
A lady bumped into me at a very crowded Trader Joe's (pre-pandemic) and she said a quick "sorry." I said, "No problem, we're all doing our best." She looked at me like I was crazy. LOL.
The cost of parking is astronomical. The average where I live costs approx $26 a day. It even costs money to park at most hospitals too.
I always imagined I would die being trampled by ponies 900' underground in a Victorian mining accident.
On the bright side, the human memory has a filter that makes you forget your worst days.
If I'm in a real hurry, I just use the men's toilets. I avert my head while I pass the urinals and the stalls are usually empty. And yes - some women stay incredibly long on the loo. Maybe something's not working right - I don't think they sit there because it's so comfy. Now I wonder... do people also measure the time a man stands at the urinal? Because bladder-stones and prostate-issues would slow the tinkled down some, right?
Almost all animals don't attack unless need to or provoked to. They may be animals ,who follow the law of jungle. They still follow rules, much better than us
Complex communication being "Your momma is a fat hoe" and "Have you seen this video of me wrecking my car while driving blindfolded."
Historian here: even with little information, filtering out the truth from confabulation is what we've always done... -Dr M
Not entirely true. Draco’s team all got the top of the-line-brooms, bought by his dad, but Ron still was able to hold his own with the middle-of-the-road Cleansweep. If Harry hadn’t have had talent, his Nimbus 2000 may just as well have been a string mop.
You know you're really getting advanced when you have to use the diamond button :) (second shift on TI models)
...especially if you take your leash-less dog with you, while in Central Park...
Or some would grow them as big as possible to prove how virile they are.
That's the proper way to look at it. It's not your reward for services rendered but it's a fee your employer pays to see you come in again to do some work.
And if they don't know how to distinguish a guy saying he was using sarcasm from that same guy giving some totally insane advice about ingesting light and disinfectants they can't even begin to understand US politics between 2016 and 2020.
It's like noticing draft/breeze for the first time or hoping it doesn't snow cos of the disruption it causes.
Tattoo needles aren't necessarily 'normal' in some traditional practice the needle is made of animal bone. Perhaps that's Aquaman's weakness.
But they only have their own lives as their reference for dream material.
Boomers haven't destroyed the housing markets. The banks and investors have destroyed the housing market.
Unless you live in a country that uses rubber bullets on people protesting.
Never noticed how people that really know their stuff tend to skip steps in their explanation because they think it's common knowledge and doesn't even need any explaining?
You Suck At Cooking is pretty close to this. Ondo, w**g-jangler, what else do you need?
That's quite profound. Some of the self-made variety certainly have, but the majority certainly have not.
...Unless you are like me, and my OCD requires all furniture against a wall, to allow large passage across the room, to avoid tripping...or visitors.
I mean, in most cases it's better described as barely controlled falling with lots of flapping, but chickens can fly.
Now playing: "Mad Max: Amazon" in which leftover characters from the "Purge" franchise fight for the control of warehouses....in 3-D!
Really? Since Batman refuses to kill super-villains, he’s directly responsible for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth... twelve-hundredth time psychos like the Joker commit multiple/mass-murder in a new super-villain plot before Batman inevitably catches and stops them. I’m fairly sure that makes up for whatever small-time murder cases he thwarts.
Tell that to milley boby brown . When I showed her 14yr old pic to people who didn't know her, they guessed her age between 35-45. And I have to say she doesn't look like a child not even 20s. Though I enjoy talent at such a young age. I m actually concerned for her .
Maybe because smoking is not allowed at a lot of high schools in Europe? At least not the one I went to.
U have to know as a general rule, celebrities aare not nice people.how to do you not realise it ? They are the best at pretending in the entire f*****g world. Everything they say or do, is highly scripted and analysed for today's trends and societal issue. I mean you have to be a psychopath and sociopath to actually make it in that world. Same is true for politicians and top businessman.
The interesting posts on there aren't worth it to wade through all the hate and sexism on there.
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The interesting posts on there aren't worth it to wade through all the hate and sexism on there.
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