Everyone knows that the shower is where you make your most important life decisions. It’s just you, hot water, and some soap, but man does this combination get the wheels in your head turning.

What makes the shower such a place of creative enlightenment? It’s a place where the mind is free to wander and make some life-altering decisions. Everyone’s done their fair share of soul searching in the shower. It’s really a magical place.

Here’s the five thoughts you encounter while your scrub-a-dubbing.

1. The actual logistics of the shower.

This happens when you take your first step in. You think to yourself, “Good thing I’m in here. I stink and I needed this.” Then you run through whether you need to shave, and if you’re using the loofy or a washcloth.

2. Run through of your day and what's left to do.

OK, enough about the actual showering part. This stage depends on if you’re someone who starts off the day with a shower or ends it with one. Either way, you’re thinking about how your day is going to go, or how it already went. This is the ‘here and now,’ or short-term life thoughts. At this point, you’re scrubbing behind your ears.

3. Monumental decisions & life thoughts.

This is where any big decisions are made. If you have anything going on in your life that needs some thought, or maybe a tough decision that has to be made, this is when it happens. Keep lathering up that hair with some more suds if it needs some more thinking time.

4. Oh crap, I've been in here for awhile.

Rinsing the shampoo out of your hair, you realize “I should probably get out, I’m using up all of the hot water.”

5. Back to reality

The water shuts off, and you need to wrap yourself up in a towel. “Time to get on with the rest of this day (or night).”