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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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The Edge" Sounds like a cool attraction. There would be a lot of hotels with the view near it too.

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At the same time, you might make a decision that will take your life... and one day you will.

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what I came here to say. He just wants drugs, debauchery, and the detective.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, God rules Heaven and Hell. Many people believe otherwise, but it is not true.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought God was merciful? If God rules hell, doesn't that mean the opposite?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if he existed, his punishment queue would be incredibly full.... particularly with religious types.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Satan doesn't punish bad people. He influences good people to do bad so they'll go to hell with him.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If killing people is bad, why is Satan the bad guy if the god of the christian bibles killed many, many more?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean its all faith so believe whatever you wish.... What you believe is your truth because no one can prove otherwise.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If Satan suggest/temps you rob a bank you still don't have to rob the bank. Satan isn't bad for making the temptation available you were bad all along.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, it just means you're wasting your time thinking about supernatural entities that don't exist.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. It's the bad ones he takes in to make his army stronger. That's my thought

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

????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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm no expert, but because he also punishes good people.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or.. Satan could be trying to get people to face the weakest part of themselves so they can overcome it and become stronger..which would also be a positive action 🙂

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'VE SAID THAT FOR A LONG TIME, BUT NO ONE LISTENED TO ME

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, the comment section is interesting. But I agree with this shower thought.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'll be able to judge that first hand when you meet him. Let the hate commence.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... 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).

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Satan's the sadistic one even though God is the one that invented hell and tortures everyone for eternity?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You may also be the last person who saw someone before they went missing and you'd never know it.

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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!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, thanks for ruining my day. Before now I never had to think about that. :'(

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the light coming to us is eight minutes old already, it take some time for it to reach the earth.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By now my brain is questioning my existence and currently im only on the 15th one

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you see the moon every night it is visible you look at 50% of the surface, no surprise in that

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yeah. If i never searched up im bored during school, I never would have come across bored panda :)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What do we want? TIME TRAVEL! When do we want it? Doesn't matter.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone reply to this and post your time until two people post at the same time. 09:54

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same with Violet (ultraviolet light is invisible to the human eye) and JackJack (Jack of all trades).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, they go to sleep one day and wake up and think “what a nice sleep that was…WHAAAAAAAT the hell, I’m flying?”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What if there's a giant tortoise or a Greenland shark, one of those animals that lives for 300 years, and they're like 'man, I haven't seen that little bird for a while, he used to be everywhere'.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen a guy online saying his wife gets annoyed when he refers to her as his ex-girlfriend

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My deaf cat doesn't seem to mind, we didn't even realize she'd gone totally deaf for about 5 or 6 months, we just thought she was being annoyingly loud on purpose so we'd give her what she wants more quickly.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This actually happened near me, it was a candle factory and the carpark was covered in multi-coloured wax. Once the fire was out and the acrid burning smell had dissipated there was a really nice smell of wax in the air.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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