Contrary to the name, shower thoughts aren't exclusive to showers. From long walks to mowing the lawn, many everyday activities seem to have the right circumstances to allow the brain to have these little aha moments.
But they also happen to be situations where it's difficult to take notes — turns out that mechanical engagement is perfect for free association, but getting a pen and paper can take you out of the experience.
One TikTok user, however, seems to have beaten the system. He goes by the nickname Shower Thoughts Guy and constantly produces videos that allow him to keep this title. Continue scrolling and check out his best one-liners.
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There haven't been a lot of experiments on why we get random insights, but psychology does have one theory that describes a mental state that seems to foment these kinds of thoughts. It's called the default mode network.
"You become less aware of your environment and more aware of your internal thoughts," John Kounios, a psychologist who studies creativity and distraction at Drexel University in Philadelphia, told WIRED.
At the same time, you might make a decision that will take your life... and one day you will.
The common thing in these activities is they are physically or mentally active, but only mildly — they're also familiar or comfortable enough that we stay engaged but not bored, and last long enough to have an uninterrupted stream of thought.
Kounios explained that our brains typically catalog things by their context: Windows are parts of buildings, and the stars belong in the night sky. Ideas will always mingle to some degree, but when we’re focused on a specific task our thinking tends to be linear.
That Satan punishes sinners is an idea conflating Satan and Hades, as is Satan living in hell. If you're coming from a Christian perspective then...no he doesn't on either count, that isn't in the Bible. Satan is evil because he tempts people into doing wicked acts with loaded promises and lies, thus sending their soul to the eternal fire of hell. He doesn't live in hell, he doesn't sit on a throne and punish the wicked. Satan lies and manipulates to send the souls of others there in place of him.
The idea of Satan has changed so much over the years that it's not really clear what the guy actually is or does. In some of the early Hebrew accounts Satan was basically an angel that argued against you being a good person in afterlife court. Satan could have been a position or role that different angel lawyers took up or an actual person it's not clear. He seems to have merged with other angels over the century's to form our modern understanding of him.
Load More Replies...The idea that Satan rules Hell and punishes sinners is a late cultural one. In the Bible he tempts people through lies and will be punished in the end himself.
That's what I came here to say. He just wants drugs, debauchery, and the detective.
Load More Replies...No, God rules Heaven and Hell. Many people believe otherwise, but it is not true.
I thought God was merciful? If God rules hell, doesn't that mean the opposite?
Load More Replies...if he existed, his punishment queue would be incredibly full.... particularly with religious types.
Satan doesn't punish bad people. He influences good people to do bad so they'll go to hell with him.
If killing people is bad, why is Satan the bad guy if the god of the christian bibles killed many, many more?
Because God is the person who gave them their life, and he can take it away. He’s not bound by the same rules as us. On a different note, Satan is the bad guy because he tempts people and tries to make them turn away from God, the consequence of which is that they go to hell, whereas God offers us eternal life if we choose to accept it.
Load More Replies...Satan punishes bad people. God punishes everybody. But Satan is the bad guy?
Load More Replies...Satan doesn't rule in Hell, he is sent there in the future to be punished. God actually appoints a separate spirit (Abaddon) to be the ruler of Hell and gives that individual a crown and key. Abaddon is terrifying and has an army of horse sized locust-humanoid creatures with scorpion tails. I seriously couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted too, not imaginative enough.
He does not. He is not the prison's warden, he is just another inmate who bullies everyone else. Demons don't manage hell, they are there to be punished too.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10
One theory I have is that Satan isn't as bad as depicted. He used to be an angel until he went around trying to say he was more beautiful and better than God or Jesus and God didn't like that. That's it. He was sent to run Hell, I guess. But as a sort of psychopathic CEO.
I mean its all faith so believe whatever you wish.... What you believe is your truth because no one can prove otherwise.
“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?” ― Mark Twain
What? no. Who told you that? Satan makes you do evil, he's in no position of punishing. He is a prisoner in hell, not the king of it. Hell is domain of God, directed by the angel Abbadon.
Here's the weirdest thing... If god is truly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipotent, then Satan is simply a part of god, as are we all, and all things created...
I'm kind of wondering what the point of everyone commenting on here is. Each comment just another opinion sinking away in the ocean of opinions, having no effect on any of the other opinions. Just a room full of people shouting and no one listing or changing their minds. It's pointless.
Nah, it just means you're wasting your time thinking about supernatural entities that don't exist.
No. It's the bad ones he takes in to make his army stronger. That's my thought
????Satan doesn't punish bad people. Where did that idea come from. Throughout the Bible, Satan only persecutes God's people. And, contrary to popular belief, Satan is not the ruler over hell. He's going to burn in hell along with every other sinner who has rejected Jesus Christ the Son of God (Revelation 20). These "deep thoughts" should at least be informed.
I'm all for it!!! (But then we are all a mixture of good/bad traits - God says he is a jealous angry Being in the Bible - (that's not nice)
This is incredibly easy to answer. And the answer is yes he is, because literally every bad thing every single person has done that hes punishing , he literally influenced himself. He literally behind influencing all sin.
Satan isn't even in charge of hell. The bible says that hell was created for satan and his minions and one day they will be imprisoned in hell. When I watched Ghost Rider I laughed a lot because the plot line was hilarous
Sympathy for the Devil. Please read Goethe's Faust, Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and listen to Rolling Stones (or Guns n' Roses) and you will get it
You'll be able to judge that first hand when you meet him. Let the hate commence.
Luckily Satan doesn't exist. Only horrible, mean, greedy humans
Hell was made for satan and his angels to be punished. He will be bound in the lake of fire for eternity. He is not in charge of judgment. He will also be judged.
... Satan is not real. You can imagine anything and everything into him if you like to ... maybe he likes Bon Jovi, maybe he goes fishing, maybe he has a habit of not putting has hands above the cover, and maybe, he has to wear really, really thick glasses. Just imagine what you'd think Satan should be like, and pretend he is - that's by no means less legitimate than any of the satan imaginations that are around already. Also, I think he drives a Diesel with automatic transmission. And he does like seasalt chocolate (I not).
Satan's the sadistic one even though God is the one that invented hell and tortures everyone for eternity?
Load More Replies...What is evil anyway? Is there reason to the rhyme? Without evil there could be no good so it must be good to be evil sometimes
Kounios likes to explain it with a stack of bricks in your backyard. You walk by them every day with hardly a second thought, and if asked you'd describe them as a building material (maybe for that pizza oven you keep meaning to put together). But one day in the shower, you start thinking about your neighbor's walnut tree.
"Those nuts sure look tasty, and they’ve been falling in your yard."
You suddenly realize that you can smash those nuts open using the bricks in your backyard!
As far as Eureka moments go, using a brick as a nutcracker is pretty lame, but as an illustration of how the default mode network frees the things in your brain from external associations, it works wonderfully. As ideas become untethered, they are free to bump up against other ideas they've never had the chance to encounter, increasing the likelihood of a useful connection. And this guy seems to be aware of that!
Oh, thanks for ruining my day. Before now I never had to think about that. :'(
By now my brain is questioning my existence and currently im only on the 15th one
Oh yeah. If i never searched up im bored during school, I never would have come across bored panda :)
that would beat the pants off of any fireworks show you could imagine, though
Yep. That's the issue I have with Gremlins. "Never feed them after midnight", but there's no feeding window of time given....since, technically ever minute from 12:01 AM until it turns 12:00 AM again is after midnight.
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If you’re a parent to a young child, you won’t know when the day will happen, but there will be one day which is the last day you will ever pick your child up and hold them in your arms.
As a non-parent, this one freaks me out. When was the last time I was picked up? Why was I picked up? Why wasn't I picked up after that?
Load More Replies...When you're reading you're really just staring at a dead tree and vividly hallucinating. Also the dead tree is tattooed.
If ur reading on a device ur just staring at a bunch of pixels with different colors
Load More Replies...These are great! They remind me of the old SNL sketch "Deep Thoughts" By Jack Handey
my favorite: When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go and play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out Uncle Caveman was a bear. -Jack Handy
Load More Replies...Everyone alive today has a lineage that goes back to the dawn of life on Earth. Someone told me that once, I'm not qualified to say if it makes sense scientifically but makes sense logically.
We are made up of the matter that was part of the life that came before us. We breathe the same air the dinosaurs breathed. Going farther back, we are made from the materials that made our sun. We are star people. Humbling and awesome all at once.
Load More Replies...I’m pretty certain that tiktok needs to go away. At least from bored Panda.
You pass the anniversary of your death every year without knowing it.
Thanks, that was morbid. It's messing with my brain.
Load More Replies...If you decide not to have children, you are first one of your thousands of ancestors to have made that decision, and you will be the absolute end of a lineage of human beings that goes all the way back to the dawn of mankind.
I don't get the one abt Mr & Mrs incredible naming their son Dash before they knew his power
In the Pixar movie "The Incredibles", their son's superpower is speed (dash/dashing). Superpowers manifest when the child is a little older, not when they are born. So they named their kid "Dash" before they knew he could dash (move really fast).
Load More Replies...I often think how many you tube channels, instagrams or facebook profiles were owned by people who are now dead.
:( i was on fb recently and i saw somebody who had my dead uncles fb as friends
Load More Replies...Giving this post a thumbs up! Some of these were quite thought provoking. Great Bored Panda material.
You know your name is just a set of sounds to grab your attention or be referred to
What if nothing existed??? What if just…nothing…existed?!?!?! It makes me panic thinking about it 😰
If nothing existed them you wouldnt be able to panic
Load More Replies...You are a dark wizard, because you are animating a corpse with your mind and forcing it to do your bidding. It hasn't ceased its bodily functions yet but when you relinquish your presence it'll fall deader'n a doornail.
I think it's just a bit of fun, not deep philosophical musings on the nature of reality
Load More Replies...They aren't dumb, some of them are just a little obvious or not too logical.
Load More Replies...If you’re a parent to a young child, you won’t know when the day will happen, but there will be one day which is the last day you will ever pick your child up and hold them in your arms.
As a non-parent, this one freaks me out. When was the last time I was picked up? Why was I picked up? Why wasn't I picked up after that?
Load More Replies...When you're reading you're really just staring at a dead tree and vividly hallucinating. Also the dead tree is tattooed.
If ur reading on a device ur just staring at a bunch of pixels with different colors
Load More Replies...These are great! They remind me of the old SNL sketch "Deep Thoughts" By Jack Handey
my favorite: When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go and play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out Uncle Caveman was a bear. -Jack Handy
Load More Replies...Everyone alive today has a lineage that goes back to the dawn of life on Earth. Someone told me that once, I'm not qualified to say if it makes sense scientifically but makes sense logically.
We are made up of the matter that was part of the life that came before us. We breathe the same air the dinosaurs breathed. Going farther back, we are made from the materials that made our sun. We are star people. Humbling and awesome all at once.
Load More Replies...I’m pretty certain that tiktok needs to go away. At least from bored Panda.
You pass the anniversary of your death every year without knowing it.
Thanks, that was morbid. It's messing with my brain.
Load More Replies...If you decide not to have children, you are first one of your thousands of ancestors to have made that decision, and you will be the absolute end of a lineage of human beings that goes all the way back to the dawn of mankind.
I don't get the one abt Mr & Mrs incredible naming their son Dash before they knew his power
In the Pixar movie "The Incredibles", their son's superpower is speed (dash/dashing). Superpowers manifest when the child is a little older, not when they are born. So they named their kid "Dash" before they knew he could dash (move really fast).
Load More Replies...I often think how many you tube channels, instagrams or facebook profiles were owned by people who are now dead.
:( i was on fb recently and i saw somebody who had my dead uncles fb as friends
Load More Replies...Giving this post a thumbs up! Some of these were quite thought provoking. Great Bored Panda material.
You know your name is just a set of sounds to grab your attention or be referred to
What if nothing existed??? What if just…nothing…existed?!?!?! It makes me panic thinking about it 😰
If nothing existed them you wouldnt be able to panic
Load More Replies...You are a dark wizard, because you are animating a corpse with your mind and forcing it to do your bidding. It hasn't ceased its bodily functions yet but when you relinquish your presence it'll fall deader'n a doornail.
I think it's just a bit of fun, not deep philosophical musings on the nature of reality
Load More Replies...They aren't dumb, some of them are just a little obvious or not too logical.
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