Many people are experiencing boredom during lockdown. Book Out of My Skull brings together decades of research on this familiar yet elusive feeling, writes Elle Hunt
Out of My Skull
Harvard University Press
“Drab routine has begun,” wrote the Russian cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev, just one week into his seven-month stint aboard the Salyut 7 space station in May 1982. Far from marvelling at the final frontier, Lebedev’s diary dwells on the crushing monotony and his sense of isolation. “Everything is down on Earth,” he lamented.
There are unmistakable parallels with living through a pandemic. Repetition, constraint and a sense of purposelessness – key factors that lead to boredom – are prominent in life under lockdown. Out …
Source: Humans - newscientist.com
