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.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
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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.
Yeah, if you tilt your head back and pretend you're shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you will actually taste salt.
I don't taste anything. Does it matter how hard I shake it?
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.
inner or outer?
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?
Alcohol, ridiculously large amounts of
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I thought it was because their snout blocks their vision when they try to look downwards at something?
the human *ears. we need both ears working together to determine the source of a sound.
teamwork makes the dream work, people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization
If someone wants to read an interesting (but complex) explanation of how it works
One blindspot is that the ear is not good at determining whether the sound comes directly in front or back of the head.
The area immediately before your hand is also really good at letting you know the time.
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.
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.
There are over 1 trillion nerve ending in your hand
Just kidding I made that up
"And the average human only utilizes 10% of those nerve endings"
Want to truly understand how good it is? Try getting a specific thing out of a pocket with a thick glove!
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.
Maybe you could apply different tapes or something to the keys to tell them apart.
As a single dude, I can tell You, that's not the only thing a human hand is good at.
Yeah, it's really good at holding onto...hey, doesn't that look like a giant--
Dick, take a look out of starboard, it looks like a huge...
Peter! Get your head in the game and quite staring at that enormous.....
Also locating needed nightstand items in the dark of night
I must have gotten a defective one, then. My hand sucks at that.
You can also scratch pretty much any part of your butt crack just by feel.
What's in my pocket?
We're also the absolute best at throwing.