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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.

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Sleeping is the bridge between life and death. You pass out but still function because you're alive, alive enough to wake up from the sleep. But you're also half dead too, because you're in one solitary place of which to sleep in.

So technically speaking, everyone has died, you've experienced death, but one which you can wake up from at any given time. That is unless, you don't wake up anymore then you're definitely dead on a permanent basis.

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

For fucks sake Voyager needs a way to filter negative karma posts so I don’t have to read this freshman college quasi-philosophical bullshit

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago

The association of death and sleep has been around for quite some time.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

The people who wrote the Talmud thought that sleep was 1/60th of death.

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

But sleep is amazing. To me it's a partially interactive movie where you disassociate and live out different lives with other characters who are often an amalgamation of different folk you know, in weird semi-familiar settings both past and present. It's wild.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

There is something different on that plane but no, it's not death. Search 'astral body' and go from there. Or read the Tibetan Book of the Dead for a general breakdown of dying.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Is that why my dreams are so fucked up, I either experiencing heven or hell depending on the night.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if the downvotes are from people who are annoyed to be reminded of their mortality or personal haters, lol.

[–] Harkronis@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going to question it, I mean I did but I deleted the comment because that was only going to incite it more. Probably a mix of both.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

As a mod, I thank you sincerely for your judgement.