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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

When I'm in that state, I don't remember old dreams, I create new ones that blend in with what's happening around me. Like I see that I'm talking to a frog, but the frog is saying everything on the TV that's still playing.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If the frog starts singing the Ozempic song, do you punch it across the room?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

No. You lick those. Makes for some wild dreams!

[–] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

There's an Ozempic song?!

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I get that too right before I fall asleep! At least when I'm sleeping in public. My brain distorts and abstracts what's going on around me into a weird half dream. Then I fall asleep.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but the frog is saying everything on the TV that's still playing.

Woah, that sounds wild. My dreams aren't that trippy

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get to read much anymore, but I used to be reading books at basically all times. Many times I've fallen asleep, book in hand, and continued reading a book that - it would turn out - had nothing to do with the book I was holding.

Sometimes, I wouldn't even have to turn the pages. Instead, I would just continue reading the other side of the page in front of me.

On occasion the story was much more interesting than the one the book actually presented.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too bad you can't sleep write and publish that shit!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Definitely annoying if you like to journal that kind of stuff. I've thought about putting a notebook next to my bed

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah. One of my hobbies is making music and my brain always dreams up the biggest bangers when I'm half asleep. Unfortunately waking up and/or trying to input them into the PC makes them disappear almost instantly.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I start having pleasant auditory hallucinations. I’m also very susceptible to delta waves like white noise putting me to sleep. Might go together. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I thought it was when my eyes start drooping when I'm trying to get a couple of hours of gaming in before having to go to work the next morning

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

For me, it has been a decade of be tired, wake up later.

I've had maybe a dream a year which I actually remember, and they are always of being taunted and then myself attempting to save the taunter from doing something very foolish that will put them in great danger, and then they die gruesomely, and then I die horribly and jolt awake.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Last time on Your other life

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait, you remember your dreams?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do, for the first 5 minutes of being awake. But I come back to the same places over several nights, so those dreams must be stored in there somewhere (although I can't access those mempries while awake).

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Some do and some don't, it seems highly personal.