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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Meditation is all about being alone with your thoughts. The pretense of clearing yourself of thought is inherently wrong and it's moreso clearing yourself of "busy" thought that makes you keep track of time too hard.
That means people who meditate are likely to induce earworms anyways as those are not "busy" thoughts so they're perfect for meditation
Yeah, my (limited) experience of mediation would suggest that they'd still have earworms, but they'd not get so frustrated by it, by being able to avoid spiraling down "guh, I hate that song, where did I hear it? How long has it been stuck in..."
No, you can actually clear your mind of thought.
source: lots of meditation
generally speaking, making statements like “X doesn’t exist” isn’t wise unless you’ve seen everything. Which nobody has.