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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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Art by smbc-comics

Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the outset there are good empirical and theoretical reasons for saying that a range of different types of sleep experience, some of which are distinct from dreaming, can occur in all stages of sleep.

Pubmed Articles

Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?

Sciencealert Article We Were Wrong About Consciousness Disappearing in Dreamless Sleep, Say Scientists

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the door looking thing with legs supposed to represent?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

a thumb with legs, arms, and a yellow eye

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me: Sleep, how I loathe those little slices of death.

Also me: watches 2 hours of unnarrated sleeper train travel videos on YouTube

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When people ask me what happens when you die, I say:

"Remember what it was like before you were born? Well it's a lot like that."

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