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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Then picking the exact correct thing

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[–] RedditWanderer 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (5 children)

Your tongue is also super tactile. We spend most of our toddler years discovering this.

You can look at anything around you, anything, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it, even if you've never done it before. Taste, texture, residue etc.. it's quite freaky

Oh and my thighs are really good at imagining my phone just buzzed.

[–] hakunawazo 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, if you tilt your head back and pretend you're shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you will actually taste salt.

[–] ivanafterall 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't taste anything. Does it matter how hard I shake it?

[–] hakunawazo 6 points 16 hours ago

You have to close your eyes, open your mouth wide and put your tongue out for the desired effect. Maybe it helps if you have some bystanders who cheer you on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You can look at anything around you, anyrhing, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it. Taste, texture, residue etc.. it's quite freaky

my thighs

Thanks... My body doesn’t really need sleep anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago
[–] GreenKnight23 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can look at anything around you, anyrhing, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it

Siri, how do I unthink a thought?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alcohol, ridiculously large amounts of

[–] Today 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Weed is better for forgetting. Alcohol is better for not caring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to lick everything tonight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ivanafterall 1 points 16 hours ago

As long as you don't need a functional penis.

[–] Acamon 2 points 19 hours ago

Can confirm. Licked the outside of a subway cart once. Truly horrific.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

When I was an adolescent, I dreamt that I performed oral sex on a woman by putting my entire head inside of her vagina. Turns out that cunnilingus is nothing like my premonition, but I certainly had the texture figured out.

[–] ivanafterall 2 points 16 hours ago

There are 100% women who would be into that. I'm not saying they're common, but I may have met at least one of them.