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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: 1

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Just stared into a lemurs eyes for half a minute aparently (that felt like an hour) and it freaked me tf out. Since been staring into peoples eyes or animals eyes and its consistently weird and freaky no matter what. Also it feels like my conciousness is behind my eyes and maybe thats why they say eyes are the window to the soul.

Noone may ask what I took or how much

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facial expressions are a powerful form of communication. Faces (especially eyes) are so important to communication in the human brain that we see faces in places (pareidolia).

There is also a theory that we evolved to have the whites of our eyes visible so others can see where you're looking and react appropriately (especially in the case of danger).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any sources on that?

I'm not trying to call you out, I'm interested in reading more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sure. It's called the Cooperative Eye Hypothesis.

https://www.livescience.com/4299-eyes-alluring.html

Some researchers have called it into question fairly recently: https://phys.org/news/2021-06-cooperative-eye-hypothesis.html

I learned most of this in psychology classes years ago. There is also a Wikipedia article on the topic. I'm not an expert at all, but I find this stuff fascinating.