Being bored is a ‘high arousal state’ physiologically. This is because when you’re bored your heart rate increases.
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The average male will become bored after 26 minutes of shopping. However, a study found that most women will not get bored until two hours later. Maybe next time you should just leave your boyfriend or husband at home.
The graffiti artist Banksy once painted a message at the London Zoo. He climbed into the penguin enclosure and wrote “We’re bored of fish.”
Individual people can experience time differently, too. You’ve probably noticed how time seems to speed up when you’re racing against a deadline or having fun, and how it tends to drag when you’re bored. This is because when you’re focused on something, like a big work project or a party, your brain pays less attention to how time passes. But when you’re bored, or your brain is less stimulated, you become more aware of the passing of time, making it feel slower. One study proposed that dopamine—the neurotransmitter and hormone that helps us feel happy—may be an additional culprit. It showed that increased dopamine production, which happens when you’re enjoying something, may slow down your body’s internal clock, making time feel like it’s flying by.