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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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Humans didn't evolve for everyone to have the sleep schedule, because that would have been an incredibly dangerous arrangement for the vast majority of our existence.
We stay up late when young, "normal" in middle aged, and asleep at 4pm but awake when the teens are just going to bed when elderly
Obviously there's variation, but almost no one keeps the same schedule their whole lives.
I think that a lot about how many couples I know have mild friction because one of them is an early riser and the other more of a night owl. It can be a bit annoying, but for most of human existence splitting the time you're awake and vigilant must have been quite an advantage.
People think 2,000 years is a long time, but evolutionary that was like, last Tuesday.
We're not built for modern society.
We say this as if modern society were imposed on us by aliens—but we built it ourselves with the freedom to adapt it to our existing biological needs.
We just really fucked it up.
There's been times me and husband pass in the night because we simply slept different schedules. It's annoying but eventually they realigned!
I'm loving this comment section lol this was just a silly idea and here's a really interesting conversation happening under it