What exactly is boredom?

The Curse of Boredoms

Boredom is an evaluation of the current moment.  It makes us feel that this is the wrong time for anything we think of.  Commonly, it occurs that we feel like there is no value in trying to think up activities to do.  We might feel that nothing we can do will bring reward.  We sit in boredom when most of our normal needs have been met.  It often represents no desire to do work.  Also, that we feel our options are not rewarding in any way.  It may feel like we have no options – not enough to decide on any action.  Boredom is often not comfortable.   We have yearning for activities of viable options, but not in the mood to do much of anything.  We may see choices and reject all of them, seeing a reason to cancel them.  Again, it is common to want 100% reward – yet, this is unreasonable to expect out of any endeavor.   Boredom results from evaluation of the bang for your buck.  Of course, there are times when we have done a lot and there does not remain much to do.   We see in boredom our freedom to do more.   Free time is judged as very valuable in getting rewards.  Once we learn free time is an avenue for rewards, it is triggered to use it when we have it.  We generally have gotten rewards from our free time in the past, and want to cash in at any time free time occurs.  Again, sometimes this is unreasonable to expect