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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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[–] 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.

[–] 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 (4 children)

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

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[–] [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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

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[–] seaQueue 60 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Here's another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can't really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they're looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.

[–] olafurp 1 points 12 hours ago

One blindspot is that the ear is not good at determining whether the sound comes directly in front or back of the head.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've heard that this is the reason dogs will tilt their head when looking curiously at something, as this lets them better differentiate sound positions vertically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was because their snout blocks their vision when they try to look downwards at something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

My cocker also does the head tilt, they do it every time someone talks about treats, food, scrithes, walks and the sort.

GSD does it like she knows what you said and reacts well, like a kid.

And crazy head tilts on hearing bread, walkies or chicken.

The tilts are usually when looking directly at the subject, could be auditory and visual both.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the human *ears. we need both ears working together to determine the source of a sound.

teamwork makes the dream work, people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization

If someone wants to read an interesting (but complex) explanation of how it works

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree, if my pocket is busy I need to take things out to tell the difference between them. Also, my hands can't tell the difference between my cards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I wonder if this is an acquired skill. I'm reminded of working on cars and having to build "touch sight" where you "see" things hidden behind an engine block or other obstruction by feel alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Too bad that my brain apparently still can't figure out the difference between they keys for my front door, shed and bike lock. Still requires 3 tries just like with USB sticks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Maybe you could apply different tapes or something to the keys to tell them apart.

[–] fujiwood 15 points 23 hours ago

The area immediately before your hand is also really good at letting you know the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There are over 1 trillion nerve ending in your hand

Just kidding I made that up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

"And the average human only utilizes 10% of those nerve endings"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

Want to truly understand how good it is? Try getting a specific thing out of a pocket with a thick glove!

[–] werefreeatlast 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You can also scratch pretty much any part of your butt crack just by feel.

[–] werefreeatlast 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] hOrni 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a single dude, I can tell You, that's not the only thing a human hand is good at.

[–] GreenKnight23 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's really good at holding onto...hey, doesn't that look like a giant--

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dick, take a look out of starboard, it looks like a huge...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Peter! Get your head in the game and quite staring at that enormous.....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

And human eyes are incredible at seeing things

[–] cheese_greater 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also locating needed nightstand items in the dark of night

[–] ceenote 16 points 1 day ago

I must have gotten a defective one, then. My hand sucks at that.

[–] someguy3 15 points 1 day ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Ohhhhhh, tricksy hobbitses. We hates them.

[–] proton_lynx 14 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Pocket sand

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[–] surewhynotlem 10 points 1 day ago

We're also the absolute best at throwing.

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