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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.

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Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do you know what's worse than stimulating your fear response? Stimulating your anger response. And millions of people choose do that daily in their interactions with social media.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

HOW DARE YOU 😉

[–] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

I'm afraid you've angered me, Sir!

[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I take offence to this. We duel at dawn! /s