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Deep shower thoughts12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Research has shown that your brain builds bigger creative webs when you’re in a positive mood. It’s not clear how your brain decides which are the right connections, but it’s obvious that the farther your brain can roam, the better. Shower thoughts aren't always attached to a specific problem, but fixation forgetting still helps psychologists like Kounios understand those random cocktails of revelation. Eventually, it finds one-or several-that click together and rise up like Voltron into a solution. The problem gets removed from the mental ruts and mingles with other ideas you're carrying in your head. “If you take a break however, those thought patterns no longer dominate your thinking,” he said. Kounios says these are like ruts that your mental wheels get stuck in. Like Archimedes, when you are working on a problem your brain tends to fixate on one or a few different strategies. It's called the default mode network.Īrchimedes emerges enlightened from his bath. There haven't been a lot of experiments on why we get random insights, but psychology does have a theory that describes a mental state that seems to foment these kinds of thoughts. It turns out that aimless engagement in an activity is a great catalyst for free association, but introducing a pen and paper can sterilize the effort. They also happen to be activities where it's difficult to take notes. Long drives, short walks, even something like pulling weeds, all seem to have the right mix of monotony and engagement to trigger a revelation. We all get these kinds of thoughts, and they don't just happen in the shower. Maybe it's the answer to a vexing problem at work, the location of your lost USB drive, or perhaps it's just a random, inconsequential (yet totally satisfying) insight.īut, by the time you towel off, the idea already has spiraled away down the drain. You've just started to lather up and suddenly, you're hit with a flash of brilliance. The water sounds like a gentle, rainy static, and feels like a Plinko massage. When people think about traveling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present, but no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future.Īn even easier way to get the best sleep of your life? The Eight Sleep Pod 3.You're in the shower. A telephone makes sound travel faster than the speed of sound.ġ7. Most of the sky is actually below your feet.ġ6. Punishment for honesty is what makes us lie.ġ5. If you had $1 for every year the universe has existed (approximately 13.8 billion years), you wouldn’t even make the top 50 on the Forbes list.ġ4. Tapes has “A” and “B” sides so it only made sense to transition to “CDs.”ġ3. A single one has the potential to eliminate the carbon emissions of an entire human over the course of their lifetime.ġ2. Condoms are one of the most environmentally friendly things invented by man. Fitbits are just like Tamagotchis, except the stupid little creature you have to keep alive is yourself.ġ0. Technically almost every mirror you buy at a store is in used condition.ġ1. The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.ĩ. Your car keys have travelled further than your car.Ĩ. We were taught as kids to not get in strangers cars or meet strangers from the Internet, and now we literally summon strangers from the Internet and get in their cars.Ħ. When you drink alcohol, you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow.ħ. ![]() ‘Coffee flavored water’ doesn’t sound good but that’s what coffee is.ĥ. When you buy and eat half a chicken, you are secretly sharing a meal with a stranger.Ĥ. The purpose of a lock is to turn a door into a wall.Ģ. At age 30, you’ve spent a month having birthdays.ģ. Struggling to fall asleep? Distract yourself with these 17 deep thoughts and drift off to sleep.ġ. ![]()
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