this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
13 points (88.2% liked)

Showerthoughts

41104 readers
1181 users here now

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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

When you move your awareness from one thing to another. For example : from thoughts about lunch, to the feeling of your right hand, to the sound of traffic outside.

You perceive a change, right? Your whole perceived universe changes. Which would be science-fictionally amazing is it wasn't so common.

And if you hold your awareness on a thing for a while because you're really into it. A movie or a girl or a videogame. You obsessively focus on that for a while. You noticed how that affects you, your consciousness and such.

So those are common awareness-related phenomena that we can talk about. And meditation-related too. Huge and shockingly scifi if they weren't so common.

This is overlap between the perspectives of people who meditate and people who don't. And we can agree that these phenomena are a big deal.

So, how does that make you feel?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago