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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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People can misremember their dreams after an event happens, people can be subconsciously expecting an event to happen, and so dream about it, and coincidences also exist.
Also people are idiots, or at least easily influenced. If you ask someone "you dreamt such and such, right?" They'll be more likely to agree with you than when you ask "What did you dream?"
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article-abstract/69/3/356/624373?login=false
Yes, Yes, and Yes. Hence why "prophetic dreams" were in quotes.
We do still have documented cases of people being spot on with no possible way of having the required information before hand. Which is not miraculous or supernatural in anyway, odds are it happens more often than people know because it isn't verified or remembered by the dreamer.