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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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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I think it would be an unusual occurrence, but not really "hard". Imagine a YouTuber who edits their own videos. If they live alone and spend an extended period of time editing their backlog, they might not talk at all and only hear recordings.
But that would have to go on for an extended period of time to work. You don’t forget your own voice in a week.
People who make videos and podcasts may wear headphones, but often they leave one ear open for reference. If you cover both ears, you end up talking so loudly that you can hear yourself, which isn’t really helping with the audio quality.
In order to fully isolate yourself from your own voice, you would have to always wear ANC headphones while talking. I guess that could be doable when making videos and podcasts. Another option is to isolate yourself from the world so you don’t even need to talk to anyone.
I'm talking about editing a backlog, like if you record hours upon hours of content, then spend weeks editing them. Think of those hour-long video essays with animations and stuff. If you live alone and stocked up on groceries, you could easily go quite a while without actually having to leave the house.
Again, a pretty specific scenario, but not exactly hard. Not even that farfetched for some niche video essay creator.
Ok, I can imagine that sort of thing has already happened. Pople do make absurdly long videos, so you could be looking at a month long editing taks. However, most people probably don’t isolate themselves from the rest of the world to that extent, but it is possible. Let’s say you have an autistic youtuber who can easily get lost in editing. They just focus on editing 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, talk to nobody, put the phone on flight mode etc. Yeah, I can imagine that. Besides, nowadays you also have self checkout machines at supermarkets, so you can also skip the eye contact thing entirely when restocking the pantry.
Under extreme circumstances like that, you should gradually forget what your own voice sounds like. Would it take, weeks, months or years? Who knows.
I feel like usually when I hear about some experiment that changes our perception, the time to adapt is typically about 2 weeks, but that number is almost entirely vibes-based.