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We all have our own shower routine some of us like jamming out and busting out our karaoke skills while others like to take the time to reflect - and judging by the subreddit thread shower thoughts, there is some profound thinking that goes on between suds.

According to the group, a shower idea is "a miniature epiphany that makes the mundane more interesting. Maybe it's all the head scrubbing that knocks out these interesting thoughts, but if you are searching for life's meaning, the answer may be underneath your shower head." Scroll down below to check out more of these soapy epiphanies, and don't forget to upvote these genius ideas!

While a lot of good and weird thoughts do come to us in the shower a 'shower thought' doesn't have to occur in the shower. The term has come to mean any idea you get while perform a mundane activity. Studies have shown that these epiphany moments usually occur in one of the 3 Bs - bathtub, bed or bus. Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation explains: "When we take time off from working on a problem, we change what we're doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates—distantly—to the problem that we had temporarily put aside.

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

    That's true. So, people, do not feel discouraged to speak that language you've been trying to learn recently! Practice makes perfect, once your skills get better, you're the one with the last laugh! *laughing in Spanish* ♥

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    A lot of funny shower thoughts are silly more than profound, but some famous discoveries have come between scrubs. In 1990 NASA scientists were trying to fix the lenses of the Hubble telescope while it was already in orbit. The engineer on the project Jim Crocker was taking a shower in a German hotel and noticed that the European-style shower was mounted on adjustable rods. That's when it hit him - Hubble's small mirrors could be extended into the telescope if they were mounted in a similar way on folding arms. You never know when clever ideas will hit!

    What is it about the shower that makes it the perfect environment to think? Our brain releases its best ideas when dopamine is triggered, which can occur during a warm shower. At the same time we are in a relaxed state and thus more likely to reflect inward. Lastly we are distracted. Activities like washing the dishes or washing ourselves are so automatic that it give our brain a break and allows our subconscious time to play in a more creative way.

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    kasa alex
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg this has really got me thinking now...has there been anytime where I've almost died but just had no idea?

    Pamela24
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a really interesting thought! :O I'm pretty sure one of mine would be when we were driving with my mum through the night both very tired. We were very very close to falling asleep behind the wheel and killing ourselves and others. I'm forever grateful that nothing happened and have been very strict since. It was by far the stupidest thing I've ever done.

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    Bob Beltcher
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I punctured a gas line in my house about a month ago with and electric drill. So that's #1.

    Reilly Beryll
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would die a second time. My little ghost heart could not handle it.

    Ovi Rio
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do u ever re consider a near death experience but u in paralel universe is dead in that particular event.

    Paige s
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    jeez there would be alot to chose from for me... i am a clumsy, unlucky person

    Bobbi Newell
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhhh, no thanks. I really don't need to see the motorcycle accident from a third-person angle! 😬

    Ryo Bakura
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    St. Peter: "Well you've lost the Showcase Showdown, but here's how you could have died!"

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

    Hmm. I already have that one time when I was in kindergarten and almost got hit by a car because I chased a butterfly across the street.

    Hobbit Girly
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1. Car jacks plugged into wrong things, car almost exploded 2. Choked on chicken bone as an infant (Don't ask me how I got one) 3. Extreme dehydration after being sick 4. Deer jumped in front of car 5. Ran over by bicycle

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

    But if you were going to heck, it would be presented like an annoying YouTube video: narrator with an annoying voice and laugh that keeps pointing out the obvious, loooong transitions, and bad quality videos.

    Christian Claydon
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One time I almost drowned. I was a kid and I wouldn't of died, someone would of saved me by then, but I was drowning. lol

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

    When I was a baby I nearly died twice by stopping breathing in my cot. My uncle who is a Catholic Priest came around after the second time and gave me a special blessing with Holy Water and told my mother that it would never happen again. It never did.

    Mica Fiverline
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me, two instances would have been following each other quite closely. Crashed my motorcycle (the crash looked worse than it was), but the bike narrowly avoided my head and when I wanted to light a cigarette after a stranger saved me because I was covered in gasoline... would have played torch^^

    Zoe's Mom
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can actually count the times and sadly, there are many. So I believe I'm here for a reason; haven't figured that out yet.

    Shirley Heyn
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the times I have almost died, I knew that I just had a "life/death experience" (and lived) . . . more then 5, but wondering if this is similar to a cat-with-9-lives prophesy in play?

    Pretty Pangolin
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the Final Destination series - you escape one death and run right into another one.

    Joyce Fler
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i had about 3 of these. 2 of which involved trucks with excellent breaks.

    Blue Cicada
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was an SNL skit in the 1980s. At the gates of heaven, the guy wanted to know the worst thing he's ever eaten. They refuse to tell him. They told him like the 33rd worst thing he'd ever eaten.

    Tony Moon
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think my list would be SO much longer. I'm not sure I could just pick the top 5, I can think of ten times that are all about the same (number 1)...

    rhyan lumilay
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This makes me think a lot now. The time when I go down the car and turn around to cross the street then see from my peripheral vision that a car was coming but I stops immediately. The time that an attempted robbery was made that I didn't know the guy that want me to change sit with him has a gun.

    Alexandra Smith
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Happened to me twice on one trip... fell out of the whitewater raft just before 100+ yards of gnarly rapids in Colorado then our bus went off the road and almost rolled on the way home

    m. b
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Make it 10 or the freakiest ones. I already count 5+ on the regular

    Martti Laurson
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most people probably would just see themselves dying the actual death. No near misses from before.

    Martha Meyer
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the most stupid thing I have read in quite a while. That person must never have been in a horrible almost-died situation or watched a loved one in it.

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    Luis Milian
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when being a parent you don't realize that watching your kid grow up, you are also growing up with them.

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    Martti Laurson
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not for their entertainment. They are just picking the court fool for the queen

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

    theres a fine line between condoning the bad and encouraging self esteem sometimes

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    Stevie B
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instead of just in the airport, if should be right next to security. That way, "here is your pile of stuff not allowed on the plane, but it all fits in the flat rate box, so we can mail it home for you for $29.95." USPSTSA employees.

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    Wanda Queen
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember catching my reflection in my daughters eye when she was little and thinking I looked awful, then realizing she thought I hung the moon, anyway. ;)

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

    We just looked at the street view of my husband's parent's house as we are getting ready to sell it after his parents both passed away and the picture has his dad sitting out on the porch like he used to like to do. It was a special surprise.

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