spend 10-100 hours gathering people together to continuously report how they feel in their bodies to each other and you will learn a lot of things. mostly you'll learn that everyone is suffering
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Are you counting boredom, sleepiness, hungry as suffering out of interest?
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tbh i think boredom is kinda fake and sleepiness is also often fake
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more wild speculation: when kids yawn in school it's not because they're "bored," it's because they both don't want to be there and can't leave and yawning is a symptom of that internal conflict ("emotional narcolepsy")
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to say it in more detail, i think often when people describe being bored what they mean is they're craving a distraction from some unpleasant thought / feeling; in that thread i QT'd the unpleasant thought / feeling is "i don't want to be here"
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When I say bored - I just mean "not stimulated", and I'm frustrated at being in that state (personally)
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yeah so my claim is that if not being stimulated is frustrating you might be interested in investigating whether it's because it brings up unpleasant thoughts / feelings you'd rather avoid
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my experience is that it usually has a lot of specific structure but it can take awhile to reveal itself
tasks i've been avoiding, people i feel guilty about hurting, things i feel ashamed of, etc. etc. etc. etc.
It's just that for me, I end up avoiding almost every task that doesn't feel "fun/interesting/exciting" which literally includes cooking - and it sounds small but it's actually a big problem. I end up not eating enough unless I burn a massive hole in my pocket 😰
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welp relatable
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