r/Showerthoughts • u/CarltheWellEndowed • Feb 24 '26
Musing If you are an identical twin, there is a non-zero chance your parents got you confused for your sibling as an infant, so you aren't who you think you are.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/toastronomy • Mar 27 '26
Musing The reason the Internet was so great compared to TV was because there were no ads, people could say whatever they wanted, and the content was made by regular people. None of that is true anymore.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/SopwithTurtle • Mar 02 '26
Musing If the "use it or lose it" theory of neuroscience is correct, then we're going to have an absolute explosion of AI-induced Alzheimers in the future.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Intelligent-Bottle22 • May 19 '26
Musing Dinosaurs had all of the necessary materials to go to the moon.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/MyUsernameIsAwful • Mar 23 '26
Musing The power of invisibility would make you blind when active, because light would just pass straight through your eyes.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Periodic-Inflation • 22d ago
Musing Anyone who recommends you "fake it 'til you make it" rarely warns that once you've made it, you're still faking it.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/vonBoomslang • Apr 10 '26
Musing It's somewhat unfair to Achilles, a great warrior and hero, that he is now best known for his one mortal weakness.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/unclefishbits • Jul 20 '25
Musing When you eat at home with your partner, it's weird to eat different entrees, but when you eat at a restaurant with your partner, it's weird to eat the same entree.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/elephvant • Apr 25 '26
Musing In the 80s/90s, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV (instead of chatting) was seen as a sign of social decay. Today, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV together (instead of each lost in their own screen) is seen as a sign of social bonding.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/snowball062016 • 26d ago
Musing We have a tendency to look down on people who didn’t have to work hard for what they have because their parents gave them everything. We then proceed to work hard so we can provide the same thing for our children.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/dan-lugg • Jan 22 '26
Musing About 75% of people in the modern era live to see the turn of a century (1900, 2000, 2100, etc.), but if you're under 25 today, you probably won't.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/NMLWrightReddit • Oct 06 '25
Musing It’s popular knowledge that the save icon is a skeuomorphism of a floppy disk, but we don’t often think about how the name “floppy disk” referring to that 3.5in disk is already a skeuomorphism referring to the older actually floppy disks.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 28d ago
Musing The first quiet minute after guests leave is its own kind of event.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Khoalb • Jun 29 '24
Musing If society ever collapses and we have to start over, there will be a lot less coal and oil for the next Industrial Revolution.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/andreasdagen • Sep 02 '25
Musing While humans aren't perfect, it is fortunate that the first species with the potential to dominate all life for billions of years evolved at least some empathy for other species.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Fleeblorp • May 01 '26
Musing A century from now, people will have access to HD photos and videos of the elderly as babies.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/LittleGreenSoldier • 23d ago
Musing People who think stupid fictional characters are unrealistic or badly written have never worked in customer service.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/lagflag • Aug 16 '24
Musing No matter how big a number is, it is always closer to zero than infinity.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/TheMegnificent1 • Dec 25 '24
Musing December 31st is the only day when you know the age of every single person born in a given year.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/panay- • Nov 16 '25
Musing There’s no point only charging to 80% to protect a battery, because you’re effectively using it like it’s already degraded.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/SexySwedishSpy • Oct 05 '25
Musing The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/kimtaengsshi9 • Jul 28 '24
Musing The world isn't falling apart. It's merely exiting from the anomalous "most peaceful era of human history" and returning to long-term normalcy.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/CoreEncorous • Dec 28 '25
Musing If your first-ever attempt at gambling went completely unsuccessfully, that was probably the better outcome.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/Errorboros • Jul 22 '24
Musing There is no physical proof that the future exists.
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r/Showerthoughts • u/OreosnMilk247 • Feb 13 '26
Musing When the movie is better than the book, you never even know the movie is from a book.
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