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The average adult spends 131 days a year sulking, bored out of their mind. While boredom can allow our brain to recharge, research has found that too much of it can make a person more prone to poor mental health.
To help you avoid this and rescue your bored mind, we're bringing a whole list of hilariously random memes that are guaranteed to keep you entertained for a short while. To find them, all you have to do is scroll down!
While you're at it, make sure to check out a conversation with James Danckert, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, and Franki Bagdade, M.Ed., LMSW, special educator and mental health professional, who kindly agreed to tell us more about boredom.
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James Danckert, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, tells Bored Panda that when we get bored, the default mode network in our brain is activated, and the insula is downregulated.
"What this all means is that the bored brain is a disengaged brain. In our bodies, we get restless and agitated when we’re bored."
Danckert is an expert on the psychology of boredom. He leads the Danckert Lab at the University of Waterloo, where, together with his team, he works to understand the mechanisms and brain states that give rise to boredom and boredom proneness.
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tee-lena 7 months ago
I have a semi friend that lives across the street in the veterans apartment building. He copes with PTSD by walking dogs. All the dogs of the building it seems. I can never remember which dogs are his and which are loaners. So they ALL get greeted as if they are the best puppies there ever was! 😁🤗 the funny thing is every one, regardless of temperament, reacts as if I've got whip cream and they are such good babies. I love it but my friend gets frustrated that I can't remember. That part sucks but the rest of it I love
Franki Bagdade, M.Ed., LMSW, special educator and mental health professional, also knows a thing or two about boredom since she works with neurodiverse people, for whom boredom can become quite a challenge.
"Boredom can feel very similar to sadness or a general 'down' feeling. Sometimes my clients characterize it as feeling 'meh.' Therefore, it can be scary, and we may automatically strive to avoid it," she says.
However, giving in to boredom isn't always so bad, as some research suggests that it can help boost creativity. We sure get inventive when there's nothing to do and our brain desperately begs us for stimulation, don't we?
"There’s really no point in resisting boredom—it’s going to happen from time to time so it’s better to just learn to respond well to it, to find good outlets for action when you’re bored," notes Danckert.
Bagdade tells us that she likes to build up her tolerance to boredom by challenging herself. "Boredom can be challenging to sit with, especially if you have ADHD or are neurodivergent in any way. I like to build up my tolerance to boredom by challenging myself to do one thing at a time instead of my preferred multitasking norm."
However, too much of anything tends to be bad, and the same goes for boredom. "Those who experience chronic boredom have higher levels of depression and anxiety, struggle more with drug and alcohol use, tend to be lonely and exhibit problematic smartphone use (a kind of dependence on your phone and social media), among other things. In general, boredom proneness is not a good thing," explains Danckert.
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nut nibbler 7 months ago (edited)
Hate it when they change shift times and trying to go to bed when it is light.
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Kat 7 months ago
I wake up and have to pee an hour before my alarm every day and then can't go back to sleep
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Karl der Große 7 months ago
If I wake up too early and decide I need to get that last hour of sleep, I will always fall back asleep seconds before my alarm goes off.
Origami Chik3n 6 months ago
I feel the same way when i wake up on my own to find out it's 5 minutes before the alarm.
Lily Bernhardt-De Deus 6 months ago
I can’t sleep if I have an alarm set, I am up watching the clock.
"Sometimes, when we allow ourselves to slow down, our thoughts can become loud and overwhelming," Bagdade adds.
"The worries and struggles we have tried to push down deep will resurface and demand to be processed. Though this certainly isn't always a pleasant experience, it is often healthier in the long run to feel those feelings. Don't forget that you don't have to do it alone. It is always ok to reach out for help," she reassuringly says.
So to avoid boredom manifesting in poorer mental health, Danckert recommends taking control and doing activities that are meaningful to the person.
"This is entirely up to the individual. No one can tell you what to do when you’re bored, it has to come from you. When we’re bored, we’re not exercising our agency very well. To have someone else tell us what to do, would be to surrender our agency to the other person. Boredom wants you to take control, so whatever you do when you feel bored, it has to come from you—be your decision, be something you find meaningful," he explains.
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merlin 7 months ago (edited)
I had really bad eyes. Years of reading under covers with a flashlight cos it was lights out, no sound after 10pm growing up. Last year I gave myself the gift of laser eye surgery and I can't believe I waited so long. Anyone on the fence, 1 year on, I highly recommend it. I still can't believe how far I can see.
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Meanwhile, Bagdade shares, "When my brain feels bored, I decide what my goals are. Do I want to complete this task, which has my brain screaming? If so, I will pair a more stimulating activity with the task, such as listening to music while folding the laundry.
If my boredom shows my struggle to slow down and feel something I've been avoiding, I challenge myself to sit with that uncomfortable feeling for a moment. Sometimes I will write about it or reach out to a trusted loved one, friend, or even my own therapist and process the complex feelings out loud."
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StretcherBearer 7 months ago
Kinda thought she was pooping from the motel balcony while smoking but it doesn't look like Las Vegas in the background.
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Wild Cream 7 months ago
My bf lives in the city and I live in the middle of nowhere. Last time I visited him we were browsing foreign candy on Amazon and he said “wanna order it? It’ll be here by the time we wake up.” It was 10pm, I was like WHAT 😂 sure enough, when I got up at 7am it was in a box outside the door. City people have it so good.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
This is actually a way you can get a dehydrated kitty/a kitty with kidney failure to drink more water without resorting to subQ fluids! XD I used to gently wipe a bit of water on the front of my old gray girl's paws/legs and she would lick off the water. Never enough to actually wet/drench her in order to stress her out, but it definitely helped get a little more fluid into her! Cats have a naturally-low thirst drive (compared to, say, dogs) since they evolved from desert-dwelling animals who got most of their moisture needs from their prey. Now we feed them kibble, so they don't get nearly enough hydration from their food (if they only eat kibble.) Cats DO drink water, but if you have a kitty who has CRF/CKD, a little sneaky fur-dampening can be a way to get a little more fluid into them :)
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
Two of my kittens manage to spill their waterbowl no matter how I attempt to secure it. I sometimes walk into their room to feed them/play with them and then my socked foot just sinks into a wet patch on the carpet from the spilled waterbowl. This is 100% physically accurately the face I make XD
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Raymond Core 7 months ago
We used to say, "Smoke follows beauty" when it would drift in our direction.
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Howl's sleeping castle 7 months ago
My cat every night!! She comes later and sleeps with my husband. She needs me only to guard her while eating
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Wild Cream 7 months ago (edited)
Spooky story time: My friends and I went camping in the middle of absolute nowhere (or so we thought) last year. Deep, deep in the BC wild, we hiked for days through deep forest far from any road, almost 80km from the nearest tiny remote village. After hours of hiking near the ocean one day we found a small patch of beach to set up camp. And then……….we found one of these chairs (but with a bucket underneath) 20 feet away from us, behind a tree, about an hour after we set up our tents in the middle of nowhere 🥲 it was very unnerving to find - I was the one who first found it when I went to go pee behind a tree, and my blood ran cold when i saw it. There should not have been any other humans that far out there…….The bucket was empty and clean with a fresh, dry plastic bag, no water or debris in it, and the chair looked brand new besides the seat being slashed out. It had rained the previous night and morning, the entire surrounding area was soaked, but the chair and bucket and plastic bag were perfectly dry. We also found a dry empty cardboard box of bulk box cutters about 15 feet away, stuck in the branches of a soaking wet salmonberry bush, like someone had tossed them quickly and very recently. There should not have been anyone else in the middle of nowhere with us like that……..I have no idea how any other human could have gotten to that area so recently - it truly was a beach surrounded by dense BC virgin forest and there was no road for almost 40km behind us. No trails led there. We were making our own trails and following paper maps and compasses. Someone would have had to somehow spend days hiking there….and now be lurking somewhere nearby. But where? And living days away from other humans - why? Why else would the chair and bucket be dry and clean if someone wasn’t in that same area that same day? Did they see us coming? Why would they leave a creepy “toilet” setup like that? This area was so random and off the map - maybe it wasn’t as random as we thought? None of us slept that night. Thanks for reading if you got this far, it’s something that’s been haunting me since last summer.
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JB 7 months ago
I have a 64gb iPad, it just started telling me at 30Gb it might not have enough storage space to install the 3.5Gb update. Bıtch what? There’s literally 50% space left an’ you bıtichin about space left as if I’m gonna buy another iPad. Nope, not happening. Im gonna delete stuff I haven’t looked at in over a year. I’m gonna shift s**t I don’t care about into the cloud thingy. And then im gonna throw a tantrum that you sold me a thing with 64Gb of “storage” but now, you’re giving me grief because I used half. HALF! What the effing hell is wrong with you that you give me grief for only using 50% of the storage space you said was available? Next tablet is 100% going to be android. Fūck this, fūck you.
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Burgermeister Meisterburger 7 months ago
I am really really good at this. My overreacting face is Oscar worthy.
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Beak Hookage 7 months ago
You can afford an egg? Well excuse me but there's no need to flaunt your money at me like this, fancypants.
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Bill Swallow 7 months ago
Sure, if you insist on going with that style of nose rests, instead of the ones with the smoothly curved molded plastic!
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Catlady6000 7 months ago
And it takes you 10 minutes to scooch down the slide, while all the children stand there silently judging you
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
Sometimes when I let my Belgian Malinois out into his exercise pen in the backyard late at night and I hear a noise, I'm like "GET BACK INSIDE NOW!!!" and bring him in and slam the door and lock it XD He's 65 lbs of muscle and teeth and can parkour up an 8 foot fence, but I'm not risking my baby getting hurt! :O
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