You need to free your mind, but you also need to cull the results like so many Danish mink. You would probably not enjoy it solo, but you’d miss it if it wasn’t there. Then it’s time for Step Two, the rigorous, humourless sifting through the results.Īn onion is the bass player of food. Step One is the wild experimentation, the free jazz, the vomit pass where there are no bad ideas. This forum is a great example of the two-step process to surprising creativity. Your future self is talking shit about you The crowd may love a good pun, but the moderators don’t. The spiders that live in Buckingham Palace now are probably the descendants of the spiders that lived there during Victorian times - it's a whole parallel royal family but with spiders
And no, it can’t be a thought about showers. It can’t be a question, a joke, a piece of advice, a protip, or a play on words. It kinda makes sense that the target audience for fidget spinners lost interest in them so quicklyĪ shower thought accepted to this forum cannot be common, unoriginal, or personal. If people had two arms on the same side, we would wear F-shirts.Īccording to r/showerthoughts, it’s “a miniature epiphany that makes the mundane more interesting.” But it’s what a shower thought isn’t that really defines the genre. You need to clear the mental beach so the brainwaves can crash into it. More generally, it’s shorthand for a conceptual connection that can only occur when a combination of routine activity and white noise lets your conscious, list-making brain take five. What precisely is a shower thought? It’s a thought that occurs in the shower, of course. Pavlov probably thought about feeding his dogs every time someone rang a bell. Think of Michelangelo working for the Pope, of Hitchcock in the studio system, of Keith Jarrett playing his best concert on a dodgy piano, and of the many rules the 21 million members of the Shower Thoughts community on Reddit have to follow.
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