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Showerthoughts

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If you press on your nose and your genitals at the same time your body takes a screenshot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

For me it's different, it's when I sneeze and fart at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Mine just took a shot that landed on my screen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why do I want to try this?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I already have plenty of pictures of Shrek.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's hard to screenshot dreams because you are in your dreams and have very low conscious control over your real body.

But you can start the screen recording before you goto sleep so that it'll be recorded automatically. You can extract frames. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd actually love that. Last night I dreamed I was playing something akin to X-Wing Alliance with my dad's Thrustmaster joystick and actually feeling the g-force of all the movement. The fucking alarm clock went off while I was trying to land inside a Star Destroyer (which had an entire brick interior decor for dream reasons) after bombing its turrets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sounds like a dream!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Or Save Replay 🔴 of cool shit that just happens in real life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That would be so cool. I often dream about taking pictures of wonderful landscapes, but the phone has always some kind of problem that prevent me to do so. Sometimes I also have the explicit thought of "damn, too bad I'm in a dream and it won't save to my phone anyway".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's weird that your brain always avoids the thing. Same with going to the toilet in dreams. I wonder what trains your brain to avoid the thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You can once they release recall for humans

Keep in mind it will be ad supported

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Wow! I dreamt about Brawndo??

You sure did 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Your screenshot will be free but there will be an embedded watermark unless you pay for a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

So much so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This would be a great Monkey's Paw post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Granted. You can now screenshot your dreams.

They get deleted at the end too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get nightmares almost every day so i think i’m good. I don’t wanna see that again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Talk to your doctor about prazosin. It's done wonders for me. I don't dream at all when I take it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn you made me remember last night's dream where I handed someone three bags, one of them contained dirt, one nutella, and one poop. They were all indistinguishable visually and somehow not even via smell. And then I ran away. I don't know why I was so panicked that they would come after me but I woke up panicking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I still remember yesterday night's dream where I was being driven to the coast in Portugal, where Portugal was just a 1km wide strip. I have never been to Portugal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Now you have been, bro. Now you have been.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I had a pretty cool dream and remembered most of it right before I woke up. I wrote it down for my big Hollywood screen play...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't share that around the office. My last dream was of encasing my boss in lego.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes but I still think there should be a social network where you could voluntarily share these dream screenshots with other people.