When our brains get overstimulated or understimulated, we feel bored. Boredom seems more painful than the heaviest fear. People do anything to escape the feeling. Nature also helps us.

Learn more about the recent social media trend “rawdogging” boredom, and if it could really help improve your attention span.

According to experts at Texas A&M, a recent study challenges the stigma around boredom. Research shows it can actually ...

Millennial parents of today’s generation of kids grew up in a unique, budding world of technology, which also coexisted during a time of pure, organically created boredom. It was a time when weekend ...

Experts say the sustenance parallel is apt: Boredom functions like pain or thirst, signaling us that something needs to change. But the theory that boredom spawns creativity turns out to have “pretty ...

For college students like me, feeling bored is a universal experience that most often strikes when we find ourselves reading arduously long articles for school. For you, maybe it’s a day with no ...

As the semester comes to a close, our schedules become busier and our days grow longer. Down time becomes scarce, and we find ourselves yearning for any morsel of relaxation we can get. In so many ...

It’s just four hours into a calm, lazy Saturday morning, and I feel a kid tugging at my sweats. “Mom, I’m bored.” Seriously? You haven’t been home for more than a few waking hours in the last week ...

Want to avoid boredom while watching YouTube and TikTok videos? Try to immerse yourself in them. Credit: Worawee Meepian / iStock / Getty Images Plus A new study on boredom prompts a question you ...

From ‘prescribed’ wellness to promoting boredom and silence, Sweden’s 2025 tourism campaigns reflected a country doubling ...