The Feeling of Boredom

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I don't think I ever really experience the feeling of being bored. I'm not really sure that I ever have. Sometimes, I feel restless, but that's different to me. To me, restless is a feeling that i get when I can think of something that I'd like to do, but circumstances, and/or opportunities aren't allowing for it to happen at that time. For me, there's always something that I can find to do to occupy my time that's entertaining.

How about the rest of you? Do any of you ever feel bored?

You're very lucky. For the last few years, I have struggled a great deal with boredom... too much time on my hands at school... I wouldn't allow myself to do the stupid things I used to do to relieve boredom (like video games), so I just wallowed around trying to figure out something to do with my life. I've finally come up with some ideas (music, philosophy), so I am less bored now... but consider yourself lucky that you are never bored, because boredom can be a hellish experience and can contribute greatly to depression, anxiety, and all sorts of other lovely mental difficulties.

I used to feel mentally restless most of the time but lately not as much. It just sort of wore off along with the will to do anything productive.

When I feel bored, I sleep. Passes time.

ButchCoolidge, just wondering...how can you be bored when you live in the vincinity of New York City...the city that never sleeps?

Well, I can completely relate with you. In my entire life maybe I felt bored a few hours.
And my life hasn't been that eventfull. The thing is, something is always occupying my
mind; there's always something which keeps me busy (in my head that is).

well..i must got always someting to do

Yeah, I can relate. I love long car/plane rides as long as I have an Ipod or a radio. I can go into my mind and make up stories and think about things pretty easily, so I'm mentally occupied. I do get bored sometimes, when it's just been hours of doing nothing, like a really long class or something, but in general I don't get bored. I find things like documentaries and taking tests interesting, so things like that don't bore me as they do most people.

For me, being restless is the same as being bored. It happens most often when I'm between obsessions.

I've pretty much been active mentally all the time... no boredom.

I even had a teacher in high school comment that I would never be bored... guess I was always participating in class or off doing my own thing rather than slumped at my desk drooling down the side of my face

Sometimes I wish I COULD find nothing to do!
That way I could meditate or at least see what it's like for once.

There was an article on this very topic in my last copy of Scientific American: Mind...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bor ... o-live-for

I do get bored sometimes but it usually results from getting tired or being forced to do something I'm not interested in.
Also, some of the stuff I do requires too much concentration and I get tired and need a break but can't find something else that's interesting and not exhausting to replace it.

I am always doing something to occupy my mind...but yet, I constantly feel bored.

Nothing I do seems to make me "un-bored". Heck...sometimes my obsessions can even get boring...but even so, I still do them. Even though I may enjoy something it doesn't necessarily mean that it takes away my boredom.

Boredom was forced to leave my life and was promptly replaced with perpetual activity.

I get bored when there's nothing to do. I start doing drum riffs, etc. The thing that really drives me batty is someone keeping me waiting, with nothing to do.

That's true, I never get bored the way other people seem to...A day with "nothing" to do is heaven, because then I have time to do everything I want with no distractions! The only time I am truly bored is in a class I don't care about, with no paper to write on, or sometime like that...when I am forced to be somewhere physically and mentally that I don't want to be...