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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:
It doesn't really vibe with the rest of the sub but idk what sub one would put this in.
Sorry I had to run and didn't get to wrap up my thought.
I don't really mind if a post isn't a perfect fit. I try to give the benefit of the doubt. If we had hundreds of really strong posts every day then I imagine I would be more strict. Lemmy is small so at least we can be friendly and supportive in decisions that aren't clear cut.
!goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
Ah ok that's a much better fit
Exist out of spite. The terrors persist, but so do I.
Thanks, idk if op needed this but I did
Ooh, I like this. Thanks!
I like this. Let's do it.
At this point I'm convinced that the terrors are persisting out of spite for me, personally.
Take a week. Avoid any social media, news, etc. as much as you possibly can. Try to get out in nature by going for short walks and just focus on doing things you enjoy (or try something new). Yes, the world keeps going - but you need to recharge your batteries, my friend. Take. A. Break.
This is the way.
You’re not alone.
I'm tired boss
Burnout.
A couple of years back I fell asleep at like 8 PM and slept through to 6:30 AM. Then I fell back asleep around 8 or 9 and slept until noon. When I woke up I didn't feel tired at all. This had been the first time I felt like that in I don't know how long
I was only awake for nine hours of yesterday and it was great.
I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.
Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.
It's also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I also think of overthrowing the oligarchy in the shower.
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible
Open at page one
I said, God, he stole the handle and,
The train it won't stop goin'
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
I've never heard this song, but it can be sung to the tune of Folsom prison
Just listen to the song and you’ll hear rock music’s best and worst flutist at the same time.
Same, fellow human, same.
This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.
The "mods" in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.
You're right! We should lock down every community to very strict rules in order to sanitize it and know exactly what we're getting! I want to come here for variations on "if bread bowl for soup, why not cabbage bowl for salad?" And an echo chamber with no new ideas instead of one-off non-repeat-offenders dropping the occasional off topic rule bending whatevers. Maybe we should rename this place too. Maybe read-it or something.
On the other hand, let's fill Technology with talk about bicycle repair and dishwasher purchases because they are technology and Food with motivational quotes from LinkedIn because they are food for thoughts and Movies with discussions about American politics because 👏🏻 everything 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 political ✊🏻 and then we can fill everything else with compilations of America's Funniest Home Videos and barely related bot generated AI slop because what kind of nazi fascist conformist rights do mods have to try to keep some order and its not a phase and you're not my real dad anyway.
I hear you. I do. I was taking a comically hard opposing stance to that comment but I'm really advocating for a little more tolerance for one-off posts. People who really gatekeep turn people off from posting (and we kind of suffer from a deficit of posts here on lemmy).
How does it break rule 1? Are you watching OP and reading their mind to know for sure they didn't think of this while in the shower?
Also this community is actively asking for more mods. They're saying they're not active enough to do it all.
A shower thought is not just any thought in a shower or a thought about showers. It's something slightly random and absurd and most often humorous to some degree. Quite often an observation of some sort. Something that typically happens when you zone out while having a shower.
I too have my best existential crisis while in the shower
We're all scared, it's the human condition. Why do you thinks I put on this tough guy facade? Now, beat it!
Hello darkness my old friend, I have come to speak with you again..
Wrong sub, but I agree with you wholeheartedly Every single word of it.
That's just the impending clinical depression creeping in.
Nah, I've had many depressive bouts (bi-polar). This is more like I've given up on the world post-Trump-2. I'm checked out to avoid the depression. One could argue this is still pre-depression, and I wouldn't argue back. But it's not yet depression. I note that you said creeping… I'm distinguishing between them.
Me too bruh
Omg twinsies except for the doing well and having a good life part.
I say find a hobby you can do and check out. Today I was flying my kite and tuned out
I love flying kites. I haven't done so in a long time. Thanks for reminding me.
My dream is to one day become that wise old person you climb a mountain top to visit and to have them bestow wisdom upon. You're not alone, friend. But, taking breaks, even if it's as short as watching a funny movie, reading a good book, or sitting in a park with some coffee or tea. Pouring out a cup as it's being filled , even it's a little bit, will stop it from overflowing.
It's all by design. I try to keep it only in my peripheral and I stay far away from Uber Socials.
Define doing well, and good life? How much free time do you have? How does your work/life balance stack up?
I was never one to analyze dreams but I thought it was comical a couple weeks ago I told someone I have repetitive dreams where I am just hanging out in an empty parking garage at night. Just grey cement, don't really know what floor it's on, not the bottom, not the top. Throwing a ball around with a couple people I don't know or can't even see. The ball rolls down the ramps when someone doesn't catch it and we spend most of our time running back down to fetch them. At no point in time am I ever trying to change what's going on, the conversations are just blurs of nothing worth noting. Yet I still don't want the dream to end and have to get up so I keep pushing it forward.
Not till they mentioned that interprets to feeling worried/ stressed, stuck, and unmotivated did I ever consider, well yeah... Of course that's what that means. I haven't had that dream since, but it was comical to take something I was blatantly ignoring and putting words to it.
Not saying any of it has real merit, just conversing
"I have a good life[...] The world is so terrible" screams "I engage with social media toxic to my mental health" to me but my context of your existence is 3 sentences so...
Take that as advice or criticism but the world has never been perfect and certainly will never be as close to perfect as the funnel of negativity online echo chambers and recommendation algos can be
If you have a good life, and you're fine with loads of your neighbors not having a good life, you're a psychopath.
I promise you, if you're American, there are people struggling to find their next meal less than a fifteen minute drive from your door.
The only social media that I use is Lemmy. True that I've self-selected news and politics (among other topics), so I see a lot of Trump2 bullshit. I no longer read the articles to protect my mental health. I read the headline and maybe skim the beginning before I move on.