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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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What everyone else here said but also keep in mind it's not binary.
If you ask me to picture an Apple on a windowsill I can kind of do that. And then if you ask me to make it polka dot, I could kind of do that. In my mind's eye though it's like it's severely myopic. It's not fuzzy but the details are not there.
When I'm drawing things, the act of me putting the marks on the paper is where the object is formed. I generally don't have a solid concept in my head that's coming out on paper. I could definitely do the 2D outline of an apple, But if you want me to perspective skew it there's no way. I might be able to draw the 2D outline and then slowly modify that to make it look more 3D, But I've got to be making changes to something already on paper rather than having something come out that's just kind of the right direction.