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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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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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This is basically a water version of the mouthbow, one of the earliest stringed instruments.
Your mouth does a lot of heavy lifting when singing or talking in terms of tone quality and pitch.
Learning how to shape and control your mouth, facial, and throat muscles are a large part of learning to sing well.
I'm not a trained vocalist, but I am a trained brass instrument player, and the principles are the same.
Although I recently realized that I've been treating singing as a musical instrument when I sing in the shower, and I have a ton of things I've learned on my own that I wish there was a community here to share it with. I've gone from being a meh singer to being able to sing 3, almost 4 octaves on key, and I've made progress being able to intentionally polyphonically sing.
#1 tip is practice singing as quietly as you can. Not a whisper, but like you turned your stereo down.
I'm not sure what research you have done, but you should find some. There are things that make your a better signer short term but will ruin your voice long term. I'm not really an expert in this so I'll just leave you with the warning to get some advice from someone who is trained if you haven't. (What you shared so far seems okay, but I don't know what else you are doing)
My suggestion is what will protect your voice in the long run.
Actually singing well loudly, and safely, requires you to move the air over your vocal cords very fast, which isn't something most people do intuitively.
But singing quietly with good tonal quality also requires a ton of fast moving air, and won't work without it. By making that muscle memory, you can then safely sing loudly.
Breath control is crucial to any wind instrument, voice included.
That's a shower experiment.
I want a video now...
Thats how a talkbox works in principle but with a tube you stick in your mouth thats connected to an amp/speaker
I'm not sure I'm understanding the principle, here. So presumably the shower is off, there's no moving water, and somehow the shower head is acting as a kind of resonating instrument..?
On another note, I've found that talking in to a spinning fan is fun, as it produces a sort of "Cylon Warrior" effect.
It is on ("max pressure", although "max" depends, don't get your face blasted off). Same shower head as on the current community banner, actually. Water particles bounce around and make stuff vibrate, while sound is just vibration. How it vibrates depends on shape of what it hits. Change mouth shape, different sound. Can't do some things like the French rolling R since that's not a mouth sound, however.
I guess I'll have to try it to find out. Seems like I'd almost start choking on the water trying to do that, but maybe it doesn't work that way.
The water hits the outside of your cheek if I'm understanding correctly
directly at the mouth
It won't choke you, same reason people and other animals can open their mouth underwater without drowning.
Funny how one can get competent in another language (I'm assuming OP is a native German-speaker communicating in English), and it can actually make communication *more* difficult at a certain stage of the learning process.
I am not German, although I would consider that as compliment. I was just looking for an instance that
- Works on both IPv4-only and more importantly IPv6-only networks (my ISP breaks stuff constantly)
- Doesn't block Tor so the Tor comrades can load my attachments
- Has a proper privacy policy (Germans are most afraid of the GDPR)
It just so happened that this one in Germany meets all 3 requirements. It not being in the US is a bonus. I was on lemmy.today previously.
Just to clarify, English isn't my native language either, but I am so online that I speak it better than my native and have to machine translate some terms back.
Ohhhh... hey, OP! 😅
I hope I didn't offend you with my comment. (oof, I guess I didn't, hopefully?)
It's just that I couldn't understand very well the logistics you described in terms of how to aim the shower nozzle towards one's mouth. As in-- from the front or from the side? Or in some other way...
Your English is certainly good IMO, but at a certain point, it's also common for a learned language to not be "up to scratch" in terms of certain precise communications. Again, I intend no insult or critique whatsoever.
For example, I can understand castellano & français, but I'm a complete mess trying to write or orate that way. If one of those is your native language, I'd be interested in hearing you describe the shower-head technique in your own language.
I hope this stock picture explains it enough
Oohhhhhh.....!!
(and btw, try talking in to a spinning fan sometime; it's fun!)
You should try it in your asshole.
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