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Showerthoughts

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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:

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

I thought I was a little weird, but mostly normal for 40 years.

Turns out I'm only normal enough to fit in, but mostly weird.

[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I dont have the ability to burp. Didnt think it was that big of a deal until recently learning its a condition called R-CPD and is directly responsible for the stomach problems I've had all my life

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Huh, TIL there's a name for what I have. Although mine is intermittent.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You shouldn't self diagnose from a vague comment on the internet. Speak to a doctor.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The commenter he responded to is a doctor though…

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He’s a doctor of boxes not a medical doctor dumb dumb

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I have, they just kinda shrugged and said that's weird. Had cardiac workups and echos and everything done.

[–] SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's awesome that it's a diagnosed thing now. I didn't start burping until I was in my mid 20s. I'm not sure what changed but I can burp when I need to now. My first few years of drinking beer were rough when I wasn't able to burp.

[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I cant drink beer or I'll get so bloated that I have to force myself to vomit to get the gas out

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Goddamn. I’ve gone my whole life thinking that was just something I had to deal with. Now to figure out a way to get the treatment done, which is apparently a single shot for a lot of people.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another one! The gurgles are such an embarrassment.

[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

To make it worse I am also lactose intollerant

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it's not normal to wake up in the middle of night with palpatations and existential dread caused by an overload of caffeine/sugar/terrible world, then I don't know what normal is

[–] lath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Normal is all of that, but without waking up in the middle of it.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

yeah just let it ride

Because you spent all night telling yourself if you fake sleep eventually you'll actually fall asleep, but really you end up staring a hole through your eyelids. The fact that you can tell it's light in the room with your eyes closed seems like a design flaw

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I thought that was the problem, but it was just sleep apnea causing most of it. Try forcing yourself to sleep on your side, maybe look into a sleep study if you have the option.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have had the opposite impressions. Many people think what they happen to them is unique, until they start talking about it and many people around them is the same.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Growing up with the internet I have always felt the opposite. If you think or feel something, millions of others have too.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me finding out in my late 20s that I had ADHD and now figuring out I'm likely autistic too.

[–] Kidra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

When I was looking at a questionnaire about ADHD I showed out to my wife saying something like "man, they're really gearing these questions to diagnose everyone with ADHD, aren't they?" She read through the list and then, with the saddest expression I've ever seen on her face, looked at me and asked "you mean you've been struggling with all of this?"

Getting diagnosed was a formality after that.

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago

Yep. Remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.

[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turns out that being so nervous about any kind of change in your life to the point you get physically ill is NOT normal.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe not normal, but it's certainly a common issue.

It also happens to me.

[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You may have an anxiety disorder. I got therapy and meds and my life is so much better now.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not a "may". We are positive on this.

It's kind of chronic, I did the therapy and the meds but it came back eventually. Coping it is from now on.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why, every once in a while, one should drop in to see what condition their condition is in.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But where do you drop into? The condition doctor? The car mechanic?

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Yes, because the definition of normal is "within this many standard deviations from the average", and people consider themselves average until learning otherwise.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shin splints. I thought running just hurt, and we all had to put up with it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought shin splints were pretty universal. TIL.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah that level of pain is not normal.

Apparently sometimes they just go away, or so I found out when I took running back up ( middle aged), so that's something.

There might be treatments, too idk. Shin exercises help.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Compression sleeves around your calves help too.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Fair though, thank you for the information.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

More like, we expect others to let us know if something isn’t normal and if no one has so far, it assumed to be normal

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

The opposite is also true

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, my popping kidney cysts certainly didn't feel normal. But my doctor told me it wasn't unusual, and just to deal with it with some meds.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Regna@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We discovered I had some kidney cysts. Which isn’t unusual, fairly normal above a certain age apparently.

One had previously burst (during a time when I thought it was overexertion during ten days hiking a trail) and had left scarring. As I had had no complications (other than three days of constantly feeling like someone kept stabbing my back), it was considered normal and had resolved without any other complications than some scarring.

The other popped recently, and it felt like someone had stabbed me in my sleep, it jolted me awake, hurt like hell and then I had bloody urine with clots. Was scary, but once I went through ultrasound and cat-scans it was deemed as not all that unusual and not to worry. I am now on antibiotics and oxy, with a follow up visit later this week once my blood results come back.

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I stop hiccuping when I realize I'm doing it, and sneeze more than 3 times in a row. I feel like my hiccup and sneeze wires were crossed somewhere.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, the sneezialist

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Many never find out. And not always because they're actually the normal ones.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

I have several breathing problems with my nose and some inside bits. I always just thought breathing with your mouth was considerably easier, but people can't do it because it's not elegant.

Now I'm trying to get the surgery covered

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

You guys don't see 14 point, Times New Roman words in your mind when you're listening to someone speak?