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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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For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mean we have lots of words for varying degrees and styles of "nothing".

A chasm is the empty space between two chunks of the earths crust.

A void is just an empty space well... Void of all things.

An interval is just the time between two events. Technically it's nothing.

Still a good shower thought. There aren't a ton of words dedicated to the same phenomenon, but we have a handful.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty good number of them if you count things like intermission. Slit, slot, crack, aperture, interlude, gap, breach, etc. Others, too.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

When I said "handful" I more so meant in all of language yeah there are probably hundreds of words for the empty space between certain things, but in all of human language that's probably a pretty small number.

[–] Mitsu@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also just

“Space” as a place to go

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Good ol fashion space.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Well, well, well, indeed.