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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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People also report seeing aliens while dreaming, meditating and under the influence of hallucinogens.

So there are aliens, just maybe not in the direction that is popularly assumed.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incidence of alien sighting and abduction stories have high correlation with the airing of movies featuring those themes. Notice that aliens only ever look like how a film depicted it first?

There are aliens, 100%. Statistically there must be, if only .000001% of planets could support life, that’d still be millions of planets in the universe that have it.

But…. none of them have ever visited earth. Space is too big of a place, it’s too empty, and life on earth is too young.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago

You rather missed my point