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60 Shower Thoughts That'll Definitely Have You Standing In One Place Thinking About Them All Day

Do you ever have moments where a totally random thought crosses your mind while you're taking a long shower, and then you spend an embarrassingly long amount of time thinking about that thought all day?

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Well surprisingly, there's an entire community on Reddit called r/ShowerThoughts that is filled with tons and tons of these random thoughts that leave us with our jaws on the floor and ready to overthink!

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So, here are 60 random realizations that people have come to that'll leave you pondering all day:

1."The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in Earth's history."

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2."A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you."

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3."As an identical triplet, you are simultaneously one of the rarest and most common people on the planet."

Harris, Hubert and Hamish from "Brave"

4."Making a typo in an online argument is the equivalent of [your] voice cracking in a verbal argument."

Metamight123

5."Once we have self-driving cars, wipers will no longer be essential, because the car doesn't need a clean windshield to drive. Only humans do."

u/telumv

6."Kids will never understand the poignant self-satisfaction of slamming a phone down on the cradle to hang up on someone and end an angry conversation."

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u/NachoStamps

7."There could be a viral video of you doing something random with millions of views, and you have no idea because you haven't seen it."

u/P0RKYM0LE

8."Gen Z might have been the last generation to know what it’s like to get up early in the morning to catch your favorite cartoons on TV."

u/herbstohnewind

9."Someone out there vividly remembers something you said, which you have completely forgotten."

u/beanstalkandthejack

10."When you walk into a 7-eleven you wouldn’t think it’s an 18 billion-dollar company."

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11."When we switch to electric vehicles everything is going to become quieter."

"I wonder how our ecosystems will be affected with less noise pollution?"

u/AVengefulChicken

12."Adult life is hard, but at least we don't have to do P.E. anymore."

u/youcantseeshawn30

13."It won't be long before people use 'the 20s, the 30s, the 40s' to describe the 2020s, the 2030s, and the 2040s."

u/PlankLengthisNull

14."If 24-hour clocks started at 23:59 and counted down till 00:01, people might try getting more done."

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u/Conanbrain

15."We advocate not judging a book by its cover, but also glorify 'love at first sight.'"

u/spiritofmen

16."At some point in life, there was a stranger who got disappointed by how your voice sounded when you started talking."

u/Lovheim

17."Chances are high you are not anyone's best friend."

u/knasup

18."Biscuits and gravy are weird because it’s like 'Here’s some really wet flour poured over some really dry flour.'"

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19."All adults were children but not all children will become adults."

u/sepientr34

20."It’s likely that over 99% of trees that you look at will be still here when you’re dead."

u/Dashover

21."The most attractive people you will ever see are often random passersby in public -- who you will never see again, not celebrities you can follow on social media."

u/TheAnachroneer

22."The posted speed limit is the legally accepted maximum limit, but the socially accepted minimum limit."

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23."We’re closer to the year The Jetsons took place (2062) than the year The Jetsons first aired (1962)."

u/FictionVent

24."Most people aren't scared of being alone in the dark — they're scared of not being alone in the dark."

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25."One day your parents put you down and never picked you up again."

u/schneida_04

26."An everything bagel is proof that you can seemingly have it all and still have a hole inside you."

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27."We go to work by cars each day taking the same route but almost never encounter the same cars along the way."

u/mishagelka

28."If heaven exists it’s probably going back and doing your life over, but fixing all your mistakes."

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29."The ten years between 25 and 35 are far shorter than the four years between 14 and 18."

u/BandaidPuppet

30."The fact that bodies decompose and rot after they die just shows how much our bodies do to keep us alive from contaminates."

u/itzphantomzz5461

31."Painkillers are the "Mute Notifications" option for the body."

u/EndTimeEchoes

32."Humans are afraid of being bitten by spiders even though they have more teeth. Spiders are afraid of being stepped on by humans even though they have more legs."

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33."Hearing 'I love you' hits different than 'I love you too.'"

u/riphitter

34."We really don't appreciate the fact that email is free."

u/An_aussie_in_ct

35."There are sidewalks in the Cars movies but they are all cars."

u/K-pop-Unicorn

36."4 a.m. is the hour where you’re either up really late or really early."

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u/WaterBottleManWithHi

37."Elementary schoolers who have no control over their transportation are punished more for being late than college students who own cars."

u/Mutant_Llama1

38."There’s a good chance that your calculator history is more embarrassing than your browser history."

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39."Being 'on your phone all day' went from sounding very sociable to very unsociable within the span of a decade."

u/DrAwkward404

40."Finding an eggshell in an Egg McMuffin is both annoying and reassuring."

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41."Pressing the ‘lock’ button on your car key fob multiple times is the grown-up version of saving your game twice."

u/Joba_Fett

42."If you're still pretty young, chances are you still haven't met the majority of people who will attend your funeral."

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43."Death is a paradox. It makes everything meaningless while it also gives meaning to everything."

u/target999

44."The richest person on Earth is technically also the richest person in the universe, since our definition of rich is owning a lot of Earth money, and there's no way for Extra-Terrestrial life to obtain it."

u/SamTheGang

45."Jello isn’t technically boneless."

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46."Most people would find licking the inside of a pipe disgusting but wouldn't think twice about drinking water coming from that same pipe."

u/taybul

47."Whenever you eat canned pieces of fruit, you are more than likely sharing one whole fruit with someone hundreds of miles away."

u/SinisterLemons

48."Headaches make you realize how much you take not having one for granted."

u/Sgoody614

49."Extra fries in your bag is going to become a thing of the past once fast-food workers are 100% replaced by robots."

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50."Maybe midlife crises aren't really crises at all, the person has just reached a point in their life when they can do what they want and don't care what anyone else thinks. The people who are upset by it are just mad that their opinion doesn't matter."

u/BJtheRV

51."In the Cars universe, a movie about humans would probably be a horror movie. Slender creatures made out of flesh and bone riding the lifeless carcasses of cars for their convenience."

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52."You probably know more Latin, a dead language, than you do Mandarin, the most common native tongue."

u/iGotEDfromAComercial

53."You never really know how much fun you're having until you look back at that same moment years later."

u/imhereforgoodstories

54."If Apple had kept its 1976 logo, it wouldn't have to change its logo during pride month."

Men Admiring an Apple IIc Computer

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55."Academic grades are strange in that while you’re in school they are the most heavily weighted indicator of your potential but they are never considered important after your first job post-school."

u/villis85

56."A rating of 2 stars is worse than a rating of 1 star because you know whoever rated it actually tried and tested it and they're not a troll or blind hater."

u/FeelThePower999

57."Your belly button is just your old mouth."

u/Ryskill

58."A successful marriage ends with watching the other person die."

Carl and Ellie getting married in "Up" and then Carl sitting in his chair alone after Ellie dies
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59."The brain not only named itself, but it also recognized that it named itself and was surprised when it realized that."

u/gopackdavis2

60.And finally, "Accidentally liking someone's post while snooping through their profile is the digital equivalent of stepping on a twig while sneaking through the forest."

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u/DragonBrigade

Yeah, it's safe to say that my brain is utterly fried after reading all these. So, I need to close my computer for a bit and go take a nap.

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Note: Some responses have been edited for clarity.

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