Why is it that running water and showers etc. makes you need to pee even when there was no urge beforehand.
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People and animals who feels the urge to pee whenever they come across running water have had a smaller chance of poisoning themselves or their family because the urine gets carried away by the running water and it is therefore more likely for them to have healthy offspring then others.
If you always piss in the shower, then it is likely the shower is going to be a trigger for you to need to piss.
If you stopped peeing in the shower then you would probably also stop feeling the urge, people who take baths probably don’t feel the need for obvious reasons.
I don’t think this is a universal phenomenon as your question implies.
I wonder if it happens to people whose parents used the faucet to help with potty training, thereby ingraining it into their physiology?
It doesn’t seem to be an issue across the board, as some people don’t have that instinct.
It’s psychosomatic. Urinating in water means less chance of being detected by prey and predators, so our brains will give the urge to purge when it thinks it is at a prime location. We still retain many instincts from a more perilous existence, we just often don’t recognize them
Alot of it comes down to conditioning. We’re conditioned to pee in the toilet. That sound when we pee in the toilet is hard coded in our brain, so when we hear the sound of running water, or when we get in the shower our brains trigger this and make us want to pee even if there was no urge beforehand. It’s called the “Pavlovian Stimuli Response”
They would ring a bell everytime they fed the dogs. Eventually, when the bell was rang, the dogs would salivate all over the place, even though there was no food, and this would happen at any time during the day.
I’ve heard that is the warm water that relaxes all the muscles in your body leading you to pee.
I believe the reason why is. when the hot water comes on your body. it brings out steam. that steam just soothes and kind of seduces your body and your nervous system. your body was all tense and just stressed when the warm water comes on you. your nervous system is unwinding and it knows that this water warms and soothes you. all that urine you had in your body was stressed up tightly. your nervous system wants you to let go of anything bad or stress so you just urinate. that is the way i think of it. kinda like when u go in a pool or jacuzzi.
I fucked myself over pretty badly when I was a kid doing this. Every morning I would wake up and check the surf, of course – we all know the first thing you want to do when you wake up in the morning.
So without fail, every day I’d be up looking at the ocean as I’m pissing on a tree in the bush or whatever. For a good 3 or 4 years every time I saw the ocean I instantly had to pee
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