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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:

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

One night my daughter asked me, "Where is dreamland?" I explained that it's a made-up place you think of while you're asleep, and how everyone has their own. Little kids take things so literally, when we talked about "going to dreamland" at bedtime she probably wondered if it was an actual place she went somehow - but where could it be? Great question.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I think I believed that for a time when I was a kid, that dreamland was a physical place people went to when sleeping

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 week ago (18 children)

We "go" to lots of things that aren't places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Let's not go off the rails.

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you do it after we go to lunch?

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I'm going to vomit.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, my stomach is going to town with all this regurgitation.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In English, ‘go to’ can be used as the future subjunctive tense of the verb being conjugated.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Sounds fancy. I hope it's not expensive to use.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Planning to go into detail, or was that it?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if you insist ;-)

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

I've got to go think about it for a second, and then I get to realize what it meant.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

I'm going to go to sleep.

Double going!

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

you don't go places when you sleep?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

As a stress sleepwalker, yes I do.

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

I wish I did, I don't dream so for me it's pretty much just skipping anywhere from 6 to 10 hours and suddenly it's the next morning.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In Spanish, they talk about hunger and thirst as if they are physical objects.

[–] teft@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think that's more that tener (to have) doesn't always mean a physical thing.

As an example in spanish they use tener for age. As in tengo 20 años literally is "I have 20 years" but it means "I am 20"

Or ten cuidado means "take care" or "be careful" but literally is more like "have care". Both phrases use tener in a nonphysical sense in the same way as in english we use "to have". Like to have compassion or to have doubts.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

but it works because abstract concepts are things an individual can own.

Like "Tengo quidado" is "i own the the abstract concept of care".

it could work in English, but it just sounds strange or poetic, like "i have hunger"

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[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

German too. Ich habe Hunger. Sie haben Durst.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Sie haben Durst

Durst

Heh, Fred Thirst

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[–] Schwim@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"It's time to achieve unconsciousness, kiddo."

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The void calls ceaselessly, child.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

If you have trouble going to sleep then try falling asleep instead.

[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Dutch “go” means to go do a thing as well and I use it English in a similar fashion. Never thought of it weird before

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Edit-preface: I am not a grammarian. I don’t know what the technical names for the different types of “to” are or if they are even recognized as distinct by experts in the field.

English is does indeed use “go” to mean “go do a thing”, but not with directional “to” (as in “go to the library”).

“Go run!”, “Go running”, “I’m going running”, and “I’m going to run” are all valid uses. (In that last case, the “to” is not a directional “to”, but is actually part of the infinitive verb “to run”, as in “I want to run”). However, you wouldn’t say “Go to run!” to tell someone to run.

"Go to run" could make sense with a causal “to” (“Go, in order that you might run”) but that separates “go” and “run” in to separate actions. Causal “to” is the “to” in “push to open” and “press F to pay respects” this is not the “to” in “go to sleep”

“Go to sleep” feels like it is in the directional sense, like "go to bed"

Edit: Now you’ve got me thinking. “Go to sleep” and “go to bed” are a little unusual . “Go to [location]“ without an article is usually reserved for proper nouns or pronouns (“Go to France”, “go to Curicó”, “go to Walmart”, “go to John“ “go to her”). When the location is a general noun, you usually use an article or a proper/pro-noun in the possessive form (“go to a restaurant”, “go to the party”, “go to Bob’s house”, “go to your room”). So what makes “bed” and “sleep” so special? The only other case I can think of at the moment is “go to ground” and that is different because it is an idiom, and the rule for idioms is “they mean what they mean”

Edit-edit: meals don’t use an article either: “to lunch”, “to dinner”, “to breakfast”.

Edit-edit-edit: AAAAAH! It applies to some other prepositions too: “in bed”, “at lunch”; but not “under the bed”. What is going on‽

Edit-edit-edit-edit: Causal “to” might be a use of the infinitive case?

Edit-edit-edit-edit-edit: “go to work” does not use an article either.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I'd rather leave a piss.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's what i say in the bathroom, like it's a team sport.
Goooo Poop! 🤾🏅

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

I wish it was. I wish it was...

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm going to go, to my bed, to sleep.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It's a state.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The word "go" has lots of meanings besides physically moving to a place. It also means to change state ("the milk went bad", "he'll go crazy when he finds out") and to indicate immediate future tense ("I'm going to read this book now"). Not to mention some other less relevant uses.

[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah I think it's going to make me go insane

[–] xep@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Sleep is my go to when I'm tired!

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'm 90% sure that it was originally in the form of "to go <there/place> and " and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing

[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] gilgameth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, summoned Cthulhu.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The Dreaming

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