For me it’s hot showers. I always imagine what it must have been like to live in Rome, in a mosaic tiles bathhouse, and experience this miracle of hot water on demand. (My fantasy glosses over the horrors of slavery that made it happen, lmao.) But I think about how for most of history, that experience was limited to the very wealthy, limited to spas, and so on. Showers are amazingly nice. Cold showers can also evoke this feeling, but those remind me more of standing under a waterfall, which is an equally lovely fantasy, but something available to humans since the beginning of the species, and so not fitting the question, I guess.
For me it’s hot showers. I always imagine what it must have been like to live in Rome, in a mosaic tiles bathhouse, and experience this miracle of hot water on demand. (My fantasy glosses over the horrors of slavery that made it happen, lmao.) But I think about how for most of history, that experience was limited to the very wealthy, limited to spas, and so on. Showers are amazingly nice. Cold showers can also evoke this feeling, but those remind me more of standing under a waterfall, which is an equally lovely fantasy, but something available to humans since the beginning of the species, and so not fitting the question, I guess.