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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I saw UFO a couple years ago, and I have no idea what the fuck did I actually see. I'm still so baffled I always want to share this story:
I was walking my dog way past midnight, and saw some lights move steadily, hovering over the nearby highway I was walking towards, and thought, ah, a helicopter, how weird for one to fly so low and close to the road. Only after it had moved out of my sight (there was forest both sides and the path I was on was going under the highway) I suddenly realized it couldn't have been a helicopter; there was no sound and at that distance it would have been LOUD. I saw nothing when I got to a higher place where I could see the highway in both directions. There were no other people around or even cars driving by, since it was so late.
I checked all flights in the area for that night, since maybe I had seen something fly far away and mistook it to be closer? But I found nothing, no planes or helicopters had been in the air in couple hours at that time. It was way too big to be some commercial type of drone that were around then (about a small helicopter sized), and a military drone sounds just unlikely considering the time and place (Finland, no military bases or border anywhere close, and we weren't in the NATO yet either). It couldn't have been a truck or something since it was clearly floating and a bit too high for that, and from that position and distance I would have heard the road rumble under the tires too.
I don't think I was hallucinating, since that vision was so clear and lasted long enough for me to look away a few times, and I don't have a history of visual hallucinations or anything. Too bad I didn't film it, but I really didn't realize something was weird until it was too late!
Non-military drone?
It was just too big for that. If it was, it's not something that was commercially available here, but if someone had build something that size and flown it around, I couldn't have been the only witness in all these years!
There's one company I know that's been building unmanned airships here, so I've thought could it have been one of those. But I think their test flights weren't yet made in that year, and those are anyway too slow to disappear like that. And not things you'd fly at that place at that time either...