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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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It makes sense that left and right is more abstract to our brains than up and down. As humans we're symmetrical from left to right: my right hand is a mirror image of my left. We're asymmetrical up and down: my feet are different from my head. We also have gravity which our whole lives points down. There's no equivalent to that in left vs right.
This is why when learning to write, kids constantly mix up their "b" and "d" and have problems remembering which way "3" should face. Our lizard brains don't really care for left vs. right.
Fun fact... Ancient Greek (and a lot of other early alphabet-based scripts) was often written both left and right. It was called boustrophedon, "as the ox plows."
Basically, write the letters left to write, get to the end of the line, next line goes right to left, etc. We're so used to symmetry that it is actually reasonably natural, to your point.