THIS is What Happens When You're Bored Out Of Your Mind

This is what happens when you are bored out of your mind. Whether you are at home or at work, all of us are guilty of searching on Google "what to do when your bored". We always avoid the feeling of boredom and try to come up with ways to avoid them. Especially nowadays as we are stuck at home most of the time because of quarantine. But in this video we are going to uncover what happens if we embrace it, what happens when we immerse ourselves in total monotony. In a study by Hebb from McGill University, he studied exactly that and the result is more terrifying than it initially seems.

[zyclonic]

There are actually people doing this for themselves. Sensory deprivation is a thing. IIrc the brain is beginning to produce a chemical named DMT (Yes the drug) after awhile which produce those hallucinations. Tibetan monks mediate, sometimes in caves and such to also experience it. Its really interresting

[James-sqsc]

I mean, I've never experienced complete deprivation before but I'm curious about how it affects different types of minds. For example, I've have very very long and very vivid daydreams since childhood and i can sit alone with no sound for hours and just let my mind go wherever. But, recently, I discovered some people can't even form pictures in their minds. Imagination varies from person to person and the thought of getting so bored I'd feel my mind begin to slip, never occurred to me.

[Razzgriz]

One of my old jobs was box making. Folding flaps, putting bubble wrap in it, and slapping the company logo sticker on the box. 4 hours a day, Monday-Friday. I was isolated for the most part, the storage area was pretty dark and I didn't really talk to anyone.
it took 4 months before I started to talk to the boxes and name then.
Luckily by then I was being moved to a different department

[BucketMask]

As someone who literally daydreams 80% of the day, I wonder what would happen to me in a sensory deprivation experiment. Would I last longer since I'm used to just sitting in my head while my body autopilots? Or would the hallucinations start even sooner and be more vivid since I already do this all the time?

[AckleyLiving]

I found it interesting that you mentioned truck drivers seeing animals that aren't there.

I've been a trucker for 8 years, and while I haven't hallucinated animals before, I have had many periods of monotony that I break up with various techniques. Worst of all, daydreaming.

I've watched full scenes from movies, from memory, while moving. To the extent that I find myself sometimes having to deliberately look back at the road because my eyes have unfocused.

My imagination is pretty strong too, and I'm even considering writing a fantasy novel, scenes from which I think of while driving. Sometimes it's so vivid that, again, I have to tell myself to focus on the road because I've spaced out so much.

[heyitsuhhh]

The closest I ever get to anything like this is when I'm just staring off into space and things will occasionally slowly warp and twist.

[soulbounddoll]

Man. I kind of want to experience this to just see what it's like.

[simmyzuckerberg]

No joke, this may just be the scariest video I've ever watched on YouTube in my life (and yes, that includes horror shorts and movie clips and creepy theories).
It probably freaks me out because of the amount of time I spend just in my head.
As someone who enjoys creating art and is influenced by ideas and themes, the human mind and what it can do to itself is probably one of the most disturbing concepts in existence.

[TimSlee]

This sounds like torture but I feel like I need to experience it at least once in my life. I suffer from chronic insomnia so it'd be interesting to see what could happen.

[actuallobster]

This is very very interesting... I had undiagnosed ADHD as a kid and when it was time to go to bed, I often wasn't tired and would have a ton of trouble falling asleep. If I was grounded (often lol), I wouldn't be allowed to have my little TV on for background noise, so I would be in an almost pitchblack room with no noise, 17 different thoughts, trying to fall asleep so I wasn't dead in the morning. I remember very vividly the "drifting" feeling and definitely having an image plaster in my brain and then feeling frustrated when I couldn't stop "seeing" the thing. I know adhd boredom is slightly different (not really sure how lol) but I wonder if anyone else has experienced similar

[infjelphabasupporter]

Same thing happened to me when I was a kid, younger than 6. I remember so well though. I was gifted and extremely aware, and for some reason seldom tired. I'd amuse myself by quickly reaching that state purposefully. Only difference is, I think because of the near nightly practice, I could interfere with the images and definitely change them. Bad thing is sometimes I felt the bugs I would hallucinate creeping over my skin, but eventually I learnt to get rid of them. My environment was completely still and dark, but even so I could sit up and move my arms and even move around the bed and stuff; I remember one time I hallucinated friendly, colorful monsters all around the furniture. I remember interacting with them. Also, sometimes the mirror on the wall would become like a window, and then I would see that the room had begun flying in the sky, and feel it too. Haven't done any of that for years though. I guess my mind is too busy as an adult; but I still have frequent lucid dreams (though they're an entirely different thing, I imagine they're connected on some level).

[Zubairthgrade]

The saying goes ' An idle mind is the devil's workshop '

[ziprowoxer]

That's why I like keeping myself busy in good things, rather than poor thinking and doing nothing.
(update 1/ 4 / 23) : 7 reasons to be busy
1. to experience a new culture
2. to make new friends
3. to create art, music, and other forms of self-expression.
4. to explore different cultures, traditions, and ways of life.
5. to make a positive impact on the environment and help protect the planet.
6. Learn new things and develop new skills.
7. to tell others your story in the hopes of helping them

[patrickbyrne]

I’ve had experiences similar to this due to depression. Laying in bed for hours wide awake, impossible to get up. Sometimes for multiple days in a row, just staring at the ceiling. I would drift in and out of sleep and each time my dreams became more and more vivid. Unlike regular dreams were you remember a set piece, interaction or general feeling these dreams were a continuation of the same narrative. A vibrant life in the mind with interims of a stale wakeful existence. When I was awake I had hallucinations, never quit so vivid as discussed here but the geometrical patterns resonated with me. The most striking was the auditory hallucinations and after a while of replaying a song in my head I would actually wonder if I was thinking of the song or actually listening to it.

I’m glad I’m more or less out of that cycle but I would be lying if I said I didn’t have some nostalgia for it. Not that I enjoyed it at the time. Enjoyment is the wrong word, there’s a part of me that… yearns for it. I would equate it to my favourite subgenre, sad man alone in space (ad astra, 2001: a space odessey) type of vibe. It was the closest I’ll ever get to experiencing something of a cosmic existence and all though it would be the prologue to a dark period of my life that I hope I am now past and in epilogue, I would for all the world and more have turned to flesh and bone and finally dust in that bed, locked in an anteroom between this world and the other, the subconscious and the conscious if it would have been sustainable or socially acceptable.

[r.davidsen]

This sounds exactly what happens when you have sleep paralysis, where the mind wakes up before the body. I've had it several times. I've hallucinated, seen demonic faces and shadow figures. I've heard a piano playing, which would have been impossible. I've felt the presence of someone else in the room every single time I've had it.

[pinfinity]

wow! i often deprive myself of sensory stimulations too ranging from 1-8 hours and most of the things the participant experienced is accurate! amazing video

[heinzbrandt]

3:40 I always thought that was normal. Whenever I close my eyes in the dark I see complex, but mirrored patterns of yellow, orange, red, purple, blue etc.

[AAAAAA-gfcz]

I think I experienced in quarantine to some extent I saw the world have some distortion around me, my thoughts where much louder, vivid and full it also felt like I was in some sort of dream the entire time. I also had all sorts of miscellaneous things like very small hallucinations and personally changes good to know that this sort of thing is normal with that type of sensory deprivation and not me just being weird

[suboptimal]

I have done sensory deprivation and had out of body experiences. It is a trip just like psychedelics. I have never had a “bad trip” from an out of body experience. I’ve never been scared. Just relaxed and experiencing what my mind is showing me.

[JJJacksonMusic]

This is the same as meditating and being alone in darkness for hours, called a darkness retreat. After meditating for months, I even started to be able to see these things every day/night when I meditated. Now, I can get there after about 15-20 mins of meditation. And it’s all been soothing and curious and exciting, not terrifying or creepy or anything bad like this video is describing. It’s important to remember we all have unique experiences, so don’t trust someone’s generalizations.