The Effects of Boredom on the Brain

I suspect that some of the neurons that we access when we're being entertained can be like blown out by too much stimulation. And over time you become desensitized to stimulation, so you need more and more of it in order to get the same feeling. So maybe it's just that our brains are constantly in these excitatory states where they're being like, you know, overstimulated. Overstimulation makes it so that everything that we can do all this stuff we can do to avoid being bored seems less absorbing and less satisfying.