![]() (Think: Your very hard-to-impress mother-in-law.) Luckily, there are a few expert-approved tricks that'll help you get on your conversation A-game. And sometimes those interactions are unavoidable. Then, of course, there's the flip side of that where as much as you want to warm up to someone and vice versa, every chat with them feels terribly stiff. ![]() The conversation just flows, everything feels easy, and before you know it, hours have passed by. Essentially, you need to let your mind wander so it can look inward to make connections and associations, and you cannot do that if you have an explicit task in mind.Meeting someone new that you're able to click with easily is so refreshing. Showers aren’t a mentally or physically taxing activity, and the warm water hitting you is the perfect way for your brain to recover from the deep fried state caused by our rise-and-grind lifestyles. Most research has concluded that creativity requires a positive mood, and it turns out that when we start to lather up, we really do wash away our worries as our brain releases dopamine. However, this still didn’t answer my question about creative shower thoughts. The part of their brain that controls executive function ( dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) was relaxed, and the part that helps us make associations and understand context and emotional response ( medial prefrontal cortex) was active. According to this Buffer article, one study tracked the regions of the brain that were active when rappers did freestyle, which we can all agree is a highly creative process. Obviously, this led me to do some research on why we have these fleeting moments of creative genius during a task as menial and mundane as showering. It’s like, why didn’t my brain do its job when it needed to?!! Some of my shower thoughts also include figuring out what a perfect response would have been to specific past conversations, or figuring out the answer to an exam question that I couldn’t solve during the exam itself. But to avoid tooting my own horn, we are going to say that this was probably just my high-functioning anxiety manifesting itself as ✨insights about the future.✨ I concluded that I’d probably have gotten prosecuted as part of the Salem Witch Trials if this had happened in the Middle Ages. Me predicting the failing grade was a source of much-needed comedic relief, as we were more fixated on my clairvoyance rather than the fact that we failed. Last winter, I texted my friend, “Bro, I have a weird feeling that once I get out of the shower (bc I’m texting you mid-shower) our o-chem grades will be out, we are both failing.” After drying my hair, I checked my phone to see a missed call from my friend and a text saying, “WHAT IN THE WITCHCRAFT, WE FAILED!!!!” In fact, this phenomenon has recently been coined as “shower thoughts” definitely check out the “showerthoughts” subreddit because our brains are really out here wildin’ in the shower).įor me, it’s impossible to not have some form of internal reflection while showering and if not internal reflection, then some weird gut feeling about the future. Don’t worry-you are not alone, because everyone seems to experience this. ![]() ![]() Have you ever been struck with a genius idea in the middle of showering? Or chanced upon a random, extremely satisfying insight? Or entered a deep train of thought about your own life? Your answer is probably “yes” for almost every shower you’ve taken, or at least for those hot, cozy, long showers. ![]()
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