Interesting and cool video Crystal. :)

It gives a whole different prospective of the word "bored", which typically is seen as something taboo. I often here people say "Only boring people get bored", like there's something wrong with it.

I'm pretty good at allowing myself to be bored, turning off external stimuli and just being still with nothing but my own thoughts. I find it refreshing and relaxing. Though I never thought of it as letting myself be bored, just letting myself be still. According to the video, it's basically the same thing.

When I was on Mackinaw Island a few summers ago, there was this small little garden area. In the center was a statue of a Native American and a couple animals at his side. The writing below said "Be Still". I loved just sitting there staring off into space, just being still. There are times when I forget to take that still/bored time, life gets pretty busy, then I remember that statue and how important it is that I take the time to be bored/still.

very good

I've come across something similar before, Probably in non vid form, a few years ago, as part of a debate about what mobiles are doing to us.

Have you watched any of his others? the one about the science of thinking.

I had to watch it twice. ( when I got bored later)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM

I definitely like to turn off and go to my own thoughts. Sometimes not interacting or doing is very therapeutic and leads to the depths of me. I create my best poetry when alone and undistracted.
Sadly, I never find enough alone time. Hence the desire to live rural and away from folks.

(I don't watch many videos on youtube, except old movies and music))
I'm never really bored.
I do meditate.

Even when I can't be physically active my mind is always thinking.
I have a very active imagination (always have).
When sleeping, my dreams are always very rich and full.

I'm a thinker. I used to over-think everything.
During idle time (dr office, standing in line, standing in ranks in the service, in a foxhole, a bunker, whatever) I am very aware of my surroundings and once I reach a certain point, I imagine science fiction and fantasy realms which give me a feeling of inner adventure.

Sometimes I'll work out the details to complex physics of worlds, space ships, situations, body styles of aliens, you name it.
In my younger, healthier days I would put my imagination to work on creative passionate sexual fantasies. I wasn't really deviant, more like romantic passionate.

I've always thought I have a book series in my head just waiting to get written. Problem is, I never stop adding to it. I go into way too much detail and get lost in the specific aspects of it.
If I'm thinking of an alien planet, I have to imagine everything about it before I can move on to the next part of the story. From its gravity to its sunshine, to its weather to its microbes to its evolutionary history which lead to its current state. I even invent the language and the history of the sounds they make which lead to the language.

When I am thinking about scientific theory I've read, my mind has to play out every aspect of every possible permutation of the concept including exceptions.

Like I said, I'm never bored.

I remember reading once a theory that degenerative brain disease is caused by the mind being idle too much. The ole 'use it or lose it' idea. My dad was very imaginative and was never bored. He never lost his mind as he aged. He was sharp as a tack till the day he died.
I possess an incredible memory. Very detailed and accurate. Dad was the same way, sis is the same way. Not eidetic memory but pretty close. I believe this is why I test out at such a high IQ.

I also read a lot. I started reading my dad's library at age 7. He had the entire Tarzan series. I remember how those books smelled, asking dad questions, looking up words I didn't understand.
I used to read encyclopedias and dictionaries. I read my school text books, all the pertinent work manuals, even the federal register as it pertained to my job functions. Now, I read everything I can find on the internet which interests me. Quite a wide range of subjects.

My body doesn't allow me to do much of the physical stuff I used to do but my mind is strong and my imagination is wide.
To me, the concept of boredom is non-existent.

Do you ever go out in nature to just sit or walk or 'be'?

Are you ever bored?

Never.
I cannot imagine.
Life is so short, there is so much to learn, books to be read,
connections to be made, the need for peace..

Certainly but my mind is alive.
I once sat on the stoop looking at the cars in the parking lot.
The first car I noticed (Volvo) had wipers on the headlights.
I laughed for an hour about how the other cars were jealous of that car and some really let themselves go while others got all beefed up or pretty to compensate.
Its was pretty entertaining to me.


I would go for walks in the woods and imagine squirrel super-highways in the trees. I even imagined the conversations the trees had about all that scampering.
Again, pretty entertaining to me.

I've never just 'vegged out'. I might be sitting motionless with a blank stare on me but inside my head is a whirlwind of activity.
It was way worse when I was in depression because my whirlwind was a negative one which pushed me to depths I never want to experience again.
I actively choose not to go down that hole anymore.

Emptiness, to me, is the path to depression.