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Sometimes, when we are doing trivial things, like taking a shower, our minds begin an involuntary brainstorming session, and we come up with the most brilliant ideas and, at times, weirdest thoughts. These ideas, which are commonly called shower thoughts, allow us to look at things from a different perspective. And not only that, but you might also surprise yourself with the smarts you actually have!
Have you ever had a shower idea that dogs, who have been human companions for centuries, bring us sticks because we need them to build fires? Or that the best part of cucumber is the worst part of watermelon? If these bright ideas sound compelling to you, wait until you read the rest of them!
When it comes to weird things to think about, nothing can beat the subreddit Showerthoughts. Below, we’ve compiled some of the most interesting ideas shared by the users of this subreddit. If you have some interesting facts of your own, be sure to add them to our list!
If you find a shower thought you can relate to, make sure to upvote it. Also, don’t scroll too quickly to find out whether any of these random fun facts can be explained by science! And now, without further ado, let’s hop into some of the most random, interesting facts people have shared.
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#1
Shower Thoughts On Anxiety
Anxiety is like when video game combat music is playing but you can't find any enemies.
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#2
Shower Thoughts On Conspiracies
There should be a reality show where flat-earthers have to find the edge of the world.
#3
Shower Thoughts On Aging
They put music from the 50s and 60s in medicine commercials to appeal to the older generation... meaning sometime in the future, Despacito will be playing on a commercial for laxatives.
For your random fact of the day, here’s one: In a way, the user starryserenade is right. In a 2021 (2022) paper, Dr. Hyun-Woo Lee and his colleagues researched the effect of background music used in ads on consumers’ psychological and physiological responses. They found that music did affect users’ interest in the product, resulting in higher purchase rates.
#4
Weird But Cool Shower Thoughts
A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.
#5
Shower Thoughts On Parties
When we're young, we sneak out our house to go to parties. When we're old, we sneak out of parties to go home.
#6
Shower Thoughts On Big Brother
George Orwell predicted cameras watching us in our homes, but he didn't predict that we would buy and install them ourselves.
#7
Shower Thoughts On Vandalism
Smart phones are probably responsible for reducing graffiti in public toilets
#8
Shower Thoughts On The Future
Your future self is talking shit about you.
#9
Shower Thoughts On Running
If you run at 11pm you are a night person. If you run at 5am you are a morning person. If you run at 3am you are a suspicious person.
A fascinating yet weird thing to think about: Exercising in the morning can lead to better sleep at night. According to a 2014 paper, if you go for a run at 7 a.m., you’re likely to spend more time in deep sleep. Therefore, exercising late at night, like running at 11 p.m., can make it harder for the body to wind down and prepare for sleep, potentially leading to poorer overall sleep quality.
#10
Shower Thoughts On Hairstyles
At special occasions girls with curly hair straighten it and girls with straight hair curl it.
#11
Shower Thoughts On Staining
It's not fair that coffee stains your teeth brown, but milk doesn't stain them white.
#12
Shower Thoughts On Typos
Making a typo in an online argument is the equivalent of voice cracking in a verbal argument.
#13
Shower Thoughts On Witches And Cats
Witches have black cats because if they had white cats they would have white cat hair all over their clothes.
Cheryl Weldon 6 years ago
I have a cat that is black and white so it's prepared to ruin my wardrobe any time
#14
Shower Thoughts On Work Hours
We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
stellermatt 6 years ago
we used to nap instead of a solid 8 hours. this changed in the industrial revolution when work had to take place in daylight and be continuous. so we altered our living pattern and worked then slept.
#15
Shower Thoughts On Sun
It's weird to think that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.
A weird thing to think about: While the universe appears dark and empty to the naked eye, it’s not how it actually is. According to NASA, “space isn’t absolutely black.” In fact, there are millions upon millions of stars. Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone . And beyond that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies out there! The reason it appears black and empty is that our eyes lack the ability to zoom in like a telescope, making the vastness of space seem void.
#16
Shower Thoughts On Veggies
The best part of cucumber, tastes like the worst part of watermelon.
#17
Shower Thoughts On Scams
One of the biggest scams in life was your mom saying she won't get angry if you say the truth.
#18
Shower Thoughts On Furniture
Bean bags are just boneless sofas.
How to Think About Weird Things?
Have no luck generating weird thoughts on your own? Well, there is a book that will help you think unconventionally. How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn lays down the groundwork for critical thinking, guiding you through principles that can help you generate quirky thoughts regularly—no more relying solely on shower inspirations!
#19
Shower Thoughts On Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is basically Conspiracy Theories about yourself.
#20
Shower Thoughts On Sleep
8 hours of drinking is binge drinking, 8 hours of TV is binge watching, 8 hours of sleep is barely enough.
#21
Shower Thoughts On Dogs
Maybe dogs bring home sticks because that was bred into them over millennia of humans needing wood for fires.
#22
Shower Thoughts On Ultimate Animals
Ducks can swim, fly and walk on land. They have access to all terrains. They are the ultimate animal.
Pamela24 6 years ago
True. I was recently in Trakai, Lithuania (look it up - it's gorgeous) where there is a castle in the middle of a giant lake. It all belongs to the UNESCO, so it's properly protected, the water is crystal clear...I was looking at the ducks there and felt - yeah, if someone seems to be happy in this world it must be them (and my cat).
#23
Shower Thoughts On Adulthood
You know you've reached adulthood when your bed is in the middle of the wall instead of in the corner.
#24
Shower Thoughts On Brain
The brain may have named itself, but it also recognized that it named itself and was surprised when it realized that.
Lauren Blackburn 4 years ago
Do you know how much work it took for my brain to understand that😂😂
#25
Shower Thoughts On Anatomy
Your belly button is just your old mouth.
SykesDaMan 6 years ago
It's also your old nose (you receive oxygen and reject carbon dioxide through it) and the other orifice, too...
ThatJeremyKid 6 years ago
...and technically your mouth is just the top of your a**s... Mouth to butt is just one long, connected tube.
Polar_bear_lover 2 years ago
*vomits* *forgets about belly button fact for five minutes* *remembers fact* *vomits again*
Charlotte Bushe 4 years ago
Does that mean that babys knew all along bc they always put food inthere bellybutten??!!
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stellermatt 6 years ago
if you were born with your belly button already tied it used to be a sign that you would grow up to be a great warrior.
#26
Weird But Cool Shower Thoughts
Drinking water with a minty mouth is the cold version of spicy
#27
Shower Thoughts On Peer Pressure
Peer pressure as an adult is seeing your neighbor mow their lawn.
#28
Shower Thoughts On Missing Socks
Only one sock goes missing because if both disappeared, you wouldn’t notice.
#29
Shower Thoughts On Tickling
Given that tickling yourself does not work the same as someone else tickling you, we really lucked out with masturbation.
#30
Shower Thoughts On Eating Alone
Eating lunch alone as a kid is like torture, getting to eat lunch alone as an adult is a nice treat.
#31
Shower Thoughts On Falling Asleep
Its common for babies to fall asleep and wake up in different locations all the time, but as an adult the idea of that happening is terrifying.
#32
Shower Thoughts On Shoveling Snow
Anybody that questions why you are shoveling six inches of snow in the *middle* of a snowstorm hasn't shoveled twelve inches of snow at the end of a snowstorm.
#33
Shower Thoughts On Wisdom
Knowledge is knowing that you can carry all of the groceries in at once. Wisdom is making multiple trips so that by the time you are done, other family members have put away most of the groceries.
#34
Shower Thoughts On Graduation Ceremony
Watching a graduation ceremony is like sitting through a movie thats entirely end credits.
#35
Shower Thoughts On Dreams
There is nothing better than realizing, right after you wake up, that you won't have to face repercussions for the terrible choices you made in your dream.
boredkoala 6 years ago
And nothing worse than realizing that all that work you just did in your dream, you still have to do for real.
#36
Shower Thoughts On Roads
By law our cars have to be road worthy, but the roads don’t have to be car worthy.
#37
Shower Thoughts On Tongue Ability
Your tongue’s ability to detect hair is underrated.
Jilltdcatlady 6 years ago
And having the ability to identify what kind of hair it is, is a curse! Your cat, meh. Your dog, meh. Human hair, not yours, "get out of the way. I'm gonna vomit!!"
#38
Shower Thoughts On Snooping
Accidentally liking someone's post while snooping through their profile is the digital equivalent of stepping on a twig while sneaking through the forest.
Fiendhunter 6 years ago
Right.... if you're stalking said person through the forest, I guess ??
#39
Shower Thoughts On Parenting
25 years ago seeing a toddler use technology was seen as a stroke of genius, today it is largely met with thoughts of a lack of parenting.
Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
Here's one for you: People often use the word 'technology' to mean only electronic devices, when technology is all kinds of development done by humans.
#40
Shower Thoughts On The Voice In Your Head
Your voice in your head doesn't need to take a breath.
#41
Shower Thoughts On Clothes Size
An underrated perk of being an adult is you no longer outgrow your clothes.
#42
Shower Thoughts On 'Fetch'
Your dog thinks "fetch" is a game that the two of you made up, and he loves you for that.
#43
Shower Thoughts On Bookmarks
Using a dollar bill as a book mark is cheaper than buying a bookmark.
#44
Shower Thoughts On Questioning
Kids endlessly asking "why" are actually applying the socratic method and stimulate adults to think critically.
#45
Shower Thoughts On Body Abilities
The fact that our body knows the difference between a gas and a solid and which is safe to expel at any given time is greatly under-appreciated.
#46
Shower Thoughts On Thumbs
If the thumb is not a finger, then there is no middle finger.
#47
Shower Thoughts On Being Lazy
Peak productivity is when one is so lazy that they do all of their work in advance so as to avoid doing it later.
Cosmin Ionascu 6 years ago
This is something you have to do to make your future self stop talking s**t about you :))
#48
Shower Thoughts On Water
Water is a beverage whose flavor is its temperature.
#49
Shower Thoughts On Friends
As a kid, you are bullied by people who don't like you, and your friends are nice. Once you're older, you're bullied by your friends, and people who don't like you are nice.
Pamda Panda 6 years ago
I realized something like this when I was in college. I slipped on some ice and landed on my butt, and all my friends started laughing at me. Then I realized if I'd been alone, a stranger might have offered me a hand and asked if I was ok.
#50
Shower Thoughts On Sunlight
For the first 8 minutes of your life the sunlight around you is older than you are
#51
Shower Thoughts On Movies
The Wizard of Oz was many people's first exposure to a color film. Decades later, it's many people's first exposure to a black and white film.
#52
Shower Thoughts On World Records
If you won the award of the first man to break two world records, that would make it 3 awards, and you win the award of first man to break 3 records, now you have infinite awards.
Randy Dhuyvetter 6 years ago
I think the guinnes book has a record for 'most records broken'. I'm not sure if it counts for the total, but at least it stops this loop from happening
#53
Shower Thoughts On Arrows
Being shot with an arrow is basically being long-distance stabbed.
#54
Shower Thoughts On Socks
As an adult, being gifted a few pairs of socks isn't just being gifted a few pairs of socks, it's being gifted with not having to go to the store to purchase a few pairs of socks in the near future.
#56
Shower Thoughts On Cars
The average car in space is nicer than the average car on Earth
SykesDaMan 6 years ago
You mean human space car right? ... Oh, never mind... Forget what I just said! FORGET IT!!!
#57
Shower Thoughts On Getting Married
People that wait until they’re married to have sex only have sex with people in their family.
#58
Shower Thoughts On Your Reflection
The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue.
#59
Shower Thoughts On Internal Voice
Since your internal voice doesn’t have to breath, you can scream internally forever.
What do you think ?
WiggleJiggle the Emo Penguin 1 year ago
Going through a this post four years later is like going through a digital graveyard
Load More Replies... Foxyloxylou 5 years ago
what if your reflection is just some else on the other side of the mirror, trapped, and doomed to copy you for the rest of your life?
Nala Rose 4 years ago
What if you are the reflection and just don’t know it and the person who you think is your reflection is the real you and you are the one who is trapped in the mirror but just don’t know
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Lizzy Abbey (she/they) 2 years ago
I had a shower thought that in universities or labs there should be a shower but not a real shower it just seemed like you were in the shower and it sounded like a shower. i thought about this in the shower trying to think of a shower thought. Its was CRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZYY MAN
Asher mathisss 2 years ago
If you try to do good as an illegal drug mixer, but fail terribly, is that good or bad?
ISABELLE SULLIVAN 4 years ago
You know when people ask you if you would die for them and you say no. What if one day you do die for them so when you said no you lied and that was your consequence for lying.
dulcie kpopstan7 4 years ago
I've been disgusted and amazed and dont forget shocked but its quite interesting to think about
WiggleJiggle the Emo Penguin 1 year ago
Going through a this post four years later is like going through a digital graveyard
Load More Replies... Foxyloxylou 5 years ago
what if your reflection is just some else on the other side of the mirror, trapped, and doomed to copy you for the rest of your life?
Nala Rose 4 years ago
What if you are the reflection and just don’t know it and the person who you think is your reflection is the real you and you are the one who is trapped in the mirror but just don’t know
Load More Replies... Lizzy Abbey (she/they) 2 years ago
I had a shower thought that in universities or labs there should be a shower but not a real shower it just seemed like you were in the shower and it sounded like a shower. i thought about this in the shower trying to think of a shower thought. Its was CRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZYY MAN
Asher mathisss 2 years ago
If you try to do good as an illegal drug mixer, but fail terribly, is that good or bad?
ISABELLE SULLIVAN 4 years ago
You know when people ask you if you would die for them and you say no. What if one day you do die for them so when you said no you lied and that was your consequence for lying.
dulcie kpopstan7 4 years ago
I've been disgusted and amazed and dont forget shocked but its quite interesting to think about
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