The Greatest Shower Thoughts Ever Thought

Mark Holmes
Updated July 24, 2020 230.1K votes 17.4K voters 2.5M views

The subreddit /r/Showerthoughts is full of brilliant, concise insights thought up in that great, steamy thinktank: the shower. We (most of us) bathe in quiet solitude, with neither friends nor social media to entertain us lest we get our devices wet and ruin them. Amidst all that lathering and rinsing, the mind wanders, and for the duration of each shower, anything is possible.

 What do you think about during your most vulnerable moments? Space travel? The strange ways we use language? How cats have whisker-eyebrows and nobody really talks about it? This list collects the best of the Shower Thoughts subreddit – with credit to their original thinkers – for you to enjoy, ponder, and rank. Vote up the ones that make you be like, "Yeah. Yep." 
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  • Most people can eat the same breakfast weeks in a row, without complaint. But the same dinner for weeks? Now, that's just insanity.
    1
    2,306 votes

    Most people can eat the same breakfast weeks in a row, without complaint. But the same dinner for weeks? Now, that's just insanity.

    /u/roessera
  • Everyone actually has 3 voices, the one in your head, the one you hear when you talk and the one that everyone else hears instead.
    2
    2,633 votes

    Everyone actually has 3 voices, the one in your head, the one you hear when you talk and the one that everyone else hears instead.

    /u/stillegal
  • I wonder how many times I've walked past or come into contact with a murderer.
    3
    3,359 votes

    I wonder how many times I've walked past or come into contact with a murderer.

    /u/KnibbHighFB
  • Saying "um" is the human equivalent to buffering.
    4
    3,709 votes

    Saying "um" is the human equivalent to buffering.

    /u/AnxietyAttack2013
  • Fish who are caught and released are like the aquatic equivalent of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
    5
    2,762 votes

    Fish who are caught and released are like the aquatic equivalent of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.

    /u/brandonberry
  • If the oldest person on earth is 116 years old, then 117 years ago, there was a completely different set of human beings on earth.
    6
    3,054 votes

    If the oldest person on earth is 116 years old, then 117 years ago, there was a completely different set of human beings on earth.

    /u/LordofSloths