Overwhelming Boredom

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Do you feel overwhelming boredom in the following situations?

(1) Classes
No matter how interesting a topic, a class about it automatically causes overwhelming boredom. I can't stand listening to the sound of person talking.

(2) Meetings (group)
No matter how interesting a topic, a meeting about it automatically causes overwhelming boredom. I can't stand listening to the sound of people talking.

(3) Conversations (one-on-one)
No matter how interesting a topic, a conversation about it automatically causes boredom, although not as overwhelming as caused by a meeting or class.

The boredom is horrible. During classes and meetings, I am so so so bored, and during conversations, I am so bored that I have to do lots of other things like staring at pens and pencils and erasers and sniffing whiteboard markers and pretending to wipe whiteboard erasers across my face to add stimulation to the boredom.

I can do things for a long time without feeling bored when I am doing things alone, but add other people, and the whole thing becomes overwhelmingly boring.

What are your thoughts on overwhelming boredom?

Hate to say it but it comes with the territory.

Sounds like you're not a very verbal person . I sometimes imagine my high school social studies teacher reading from a history book as a technique to make myself go to sleep. Classes are very boring 90% of the time, conversations and meetings on interesting subjects can be very intense, but I prefer having them online so I can type eloquently and fact check or reference/source material I talk about, sometimes in person people will not believe or be skeptical of you otherwise.

I know what you mean. I can relate. It's soooo horrible when it happens and I don't know what to do. I get physically and mentally tired. When that happens, I usually try to think about something totally irrelevant such as what to buy when I go to the supermarket. One thing I learned is that when you wait for time to pass, it feels so slow. So you need to occupy your mind with something.

Maybe you require more stimulating company?
Maybe go downtown or to another thing or place, meet different people...
I went to the country recently, and got an immediate natural high off the clean air and trees, sometimes a lack of vitality can create boredom.
For the next few days I was in a good place, from being in the country

Buy a pistol

Draw a smiley face on your wall

Shoot at it from various angles in various cool poses.

I completely understand feeling bored in the presence of other people and not bored when doing things alone. The common denominator in your example is that you're stuck. You have to sit in one place with people and don't have the freedom to approach the topic in your own way. Even if it is a topic of interest, I'd much rather go on the internet to gather more information. The exception is, if I'm simultaneously talking about a topic of interest with the other person AND doing something else interesting (e.g. talking a walk or riding somewhere). But rarely do other people want to do anything but talk! And rarely do I have the peace of mind to feel like hanging out with other people.

I'm a very auditory/ verbal person and I actually enjoy listening to lectures on topics that I find interesting. I've listened to some at home on the Internet just for fun. I also enjoy one-on-one conversations about topics that interest me at the time. Group discussions or meetings about something I'm interested in ,I would enjoy but the social aspects such as knowing when I can speak ect often ruin it for me. This is a problem in the one-one conversations too but it's worse in groups and I just find group discussions overwhelming and exhausting.

Thoughts on overwhelming boredom:

Creep up on it when it's not looking.
Throw a blanket over it, tie it up and chuck it on a long-distance truck.