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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.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- 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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This isn't a great metaphor. We don't get energy from sleeping, and we probably only reduce our energy expenditure slightly during sleep compared to being awake. Sleep is our maintenance routine, especially for our brain. It's used for cleaning waste products out of our brain, processing information from the day, creating and solidifying memories, consolidating learning we did, training for future fine motor tasks, and practicing for possible future events. It's also important for healing and maintaining our immune system in many complex ways. Really we get two hours of fucking around/work time for each hour of self repair/maintenance we do. In the short term you can put off, reduce, or even skip maintenance, but we need to do it eventually or we die, or at least live much shorter lives.
Our charge to activity ratio can be mutch higher. You could easily chug a 3000 Calorie meal shake in 5-10 minutes, leaving the rest of your day for other stuff. That's a ratio of around 144-288 activity/charge time.