Truer words have never been spoken. That and planning out your day & thinking through problems in the shower.

If you delete social media, and leave your phone away from your person all day with notifications turned off, you can have these moments all the time it turns out.

Considering how much more productive these moments are for me than the bullshit I used to do on my phone and social media, it was an easy decision to make.

How do you simulate the warm water?

Oh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself.

Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes, walking places, etc can also give rise to them. Not having a device in your hand to constantly steal your attention really helps though.

Showers are generally considered to be relaxing separately from the “shower thoughts” phenomenon.

Couldn’t the relaxation be a factor in generating shower thoughts?

I suspect that essentially none of our non-ancestors were predated in a hot spring, unlike walking etc, so there may be an environmental cue driven induced relaxation that doesn’t exist for many other activities.

Yea, you relax, and then your brain produces random thoughts about things.

I suspect it's just about getting the space to relax, which is why I frequently have thoughts when staring at the wall, or taking a walk, or washing dishes, or doing any other myriad activities which are relatively easy on brain processing.

Solitude is extremely powerful.

I find pacing to be helpful. As long as there’s not a lot of poles to walk into accidentally. So while outside walks can be more focused you do get the odd head bang.

Play it on a speaker.

With a faucet my good friend!

Walking the dog is my go to for thinking through problems. The dog really loves the hard problems as they get a longer walk.

I never understood this. Is this why the cubicles are always full in the office? WTF I go in there take a dump and leave while the people on each side are just silent the whole time. I can think of much better places to think.

These days I'm just doomscrolling while doing that