School boredom

[Coolydudey60]

At school do you often find yourself phasing out and just thinking about your own things? For example as maths interests me I often find myself trying to prove theorems or just doing something(I haven't failed to date) while we are having a lesson. Also do you find that sometimes you just zone out and daydream (or just stop paying attention) and then the teacher asks you something and you are interrupted somewhat abruptly not having a clue about what is going on?

 

[kantor1003]

I think daydreaming at school is a pretty universal thing

But no, I never did/do that; I sit still for 8 hours straight, just listening, completely in tune with teachers every move; his every sound. It doesn't matter how uninteresting it is, or wether I had something of particular interest on my mind that day. I just let it go and let myself get absorbed in the moment. Oh, and this is sarcasm.. obviously

I think very few humans, especially at an early age, are capable of sitting still inside a classroom learning things that mostly consists of something you don't give a damn about.

 

[Wish]

Actually, that's sarcasm

 

[kantor1003]

Fixed (for the second time).

 

[Coolydudey60]

There are some nerds who seem to be able to do it...

 

[lone_dreamer]

I am one of those nerds. I don't know why, but I just have a natural tendency to do so.

 

[MaxP]

I know what you're saying I have the same problem. I'll be paying attention for a little while, but then something sparks my interest and my mind will completely loose all focus on what's going on in class and start analyzing. I'm not sure school is really doing me much good other than a piece of paper.

 

[Nigerian INTP]

My. First. Post . . . .

 

[The Gopher]

well welcome then wouldn't have minded if to be a little more constructive but beggers can't be losers

 

[Nigerian INTP]

well welcome then wouldn't have minded if to be a little more constructive but beggers can't be losers

Thanks for the welcome.
On the topic, it happens to me a lot and I must admit that I am fed up with it and want to be able to concentrate on lectures. The last time it happened was in a clinical class on Thursday. We were being taught how to carry out Retinoscopy and I just zoned out and started fantasizing/thinking. I had to go do my own reading and researching after the class, and I could be saved troubles like that in future if I just listen and concentrate.
Can't say I can help it though.

 

[Jesse]

This especially happened to me when I knew the subject well. Don't have any more to say on the topic. What a boring comment. PEACE OUT

 

[snafupants]

I am an extremely visual learner, so the format of a professor trying to demonstrate a concept with words for three hours without pause (for interaction?) is not ideal. Additionally, academics are boring; sometimes an academic is also an intellectual, but don't count on it. Of my >50 professors in undergrad, maybe three were genuine intellectuals, the rest were poseurs or unabashed, indoctrinated academics. Their interests started and ended with their chosen field.

 

[starsnghts]

Yea I zone out almost in every class. When I'm not doing that I'm probably talking to someone or doing what I absolutely have to (graded papers),I would not listen to the lectures as high school is still easy and I have known the material they are teaching since fourth grade. Not looking forward to college I probably will have to pay attention to keep my grades up.

 

[blogdogcop]

Man i can't even remember what i did back in high school. I think i was mostly like that too. It was so boring i did not even bother to remember a thing about it. damn.. thinking about this brings back that unbearable bored feeling.

 

[Pandora]

Yeah, I'm capable of "daydreaming" like this. Being completely unaware of what's going on, but that usually doesn't last long. I brainstorm and eventually remember that I'm in class, and then I try to catch up.
At least for me, there's something else, much more troublesome. When I'm distracted, I have to make a huge effort to concentrate on what is being said, because otherwise I end up hearing the words but not understanding what they mean. So listening to a long lecture is ridiculously tiresome when I'm not interested. What usually happens is that I start drawing as soon as the teacher makes a short pause, and I daydream while I draw, too... But even when I remember what I'm supposed to be doing, I don't feel like stopping drawing, and before I know it class has already ended. It went unnoticed.
Seeing as I have this INTP friend in my class who frequently does it too (to the point where we ask each other, after a boring class, stuff like "hey, what did you draw?") I guess this isn't so uncommon... Do any of you do/did this?

 

[dark]

I have my best learning experiences when daydreaming, since usually the professors like to repeat things... once in a class, I don't remember what it was, but I suddenly realized everyone was gone and class was over for 5 minutes, also go off into my daydreaming mode in tests, which can be bad for timed ones haha.

 

[JoeJoe]

Interestingly I only zone out in those subjects in which I have (almost) zero interest. I have a big capability of concentrating on what the teacher is saying and following the class over a long period of time.

But I still suffer from school boredom. While most subjects are fairly interesting and I readily soak up new information, there is barely anything, which I could be passionate about. The subject doesn't interest me enough to proceed with any thought processes on the topic outside the lessons. There is nothing I would willingly spend an extended period of time with if it wasn't absolutely necessary...
Does anybody else have this problem?

 

[Lobstrich]

I do not daydream. But if I do not find the class interesting (like math) I have absolutely NO source of motivation, I rarely do what it is the class is supposed to be doing and I only deliver the things that are necessary for me to not get thrown out of school.
But classes that do interesting, like history, psychology, civics etc. I pay alot of attention to, and rarely any assignments 'slip through'

EDIT: Like JoeJoe, I guess.

 

[JoeJoe]

... I pay alot of attention to, and rarely any assignments 'slip through'

EDIT: Like JoeJoe, I guess.

Hmyeah, I don't even do the assignments on the subjects that interest me...

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Perchance to Daydream

I sit, watching; it's been some minutes since commencement. The instructor dances about the board carving out shapes and patterns into the wall. I attempt to attain meaning from his movements and creations, no success. I turn away, what else lives? I see another, fiddling with her pencil. She stares at the dancing man, never looking away for a moment. I look about her, brown hair, down to her shoulders, no, longer. Glowing tan skin, rays of elegance seem to shine outward from her curvaceous body. Her bosom resembles mounds I once grasped as a child in the sandbox, surely the tone is similar. After playing out a few fervid scenarios, I become disinterested. The window steals my attention, oh, but a glass to separate me from infinite possibilities. Blasted glass! Let me breathe! I am suffocating, I begin to hyperventilate: *HUH HAH HUH HAH HUH HA HUH HA*. Wait a minute, I am fine, there is ample oxygen in this room. I look towards the front of the room, the dancing man continues on, I wonder if he has tried out for stage? Stage... It would be cool if I were a rockstar, maybe like Jimi Hendrix. I'd play my axe like nobody's business. ♫ Purple Haze all around, don't know if I comin' up or down. Am I happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me ♫...."..age five hundered twenty three. Numbers ten through sixty. Don't forget, test next week. You guys can go." Huh? Over already? *Picks up bag and walks out the door*

 

[gilliatt]

School boredom reminds of the most popular video in human history, Rebecca Black's "Friday" on Utube. I think 85 million have watched it. The song is about a life spent in this prison-like system, and the prospect of freedom that the weekend brings. Partying is just another word for freedom from state authority. The girl is getting in a car instead of that tax-funded school bus not shown, that we know is painted yellow today just as it has been from time immemorial(never really been in progress or change in the state-run system). That yellow machine would come in the morning, pick me up from home that I loved & was valued, wheel me off to a cement structure to teach me about fitting in & believing what you are supposed to believe. And you had absolutely no human choice about it, it was prison or prison.
Anyway, some parents would be to poor to pay for private education? You are not looking at the big picture. That is another topic.

 

[Nocturne]

Ah, school! I only stay focused when the teachers don't review things over and over... ...

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Re: Perchance to Daydream

I sit, watching; it's been some minutes since commencement. The instructor dances about the board carving out shapes and patterns into the wall. I attempt to attain meaning from his movements and creations, no success. I turn away, what else lives? I see another, fiddling with her pencil. She stares at the dancing man, never looking away for a moment. I look about her, brown hair, down to her shoulders, no, longer. Glowing tan skin, rays of elegance seem to shine outward from her curvaceous body. Her bosom resembles mounds I once grasped as a child in the sandbox, surely the tone is similar. After playing out a few fervid scenarios, I become disinterested. The window steals my attention, oh, but a glass to separate me from infinite possibilities. Blasted glass! Let me breathe! I am suffocating, I begin to hyperventilate: *HUH HAH HUH HAH HUH HA HUH HA*. Wait a minute, I am fine, there is ample oxygen in this room. I look towards the front of the room, the dancing man continues on, I wonder if he has tried out for stage? Stage... It would be cool if I were a rockstar, maybe like Jimi Hendrix. I'd play my axe like nobody's business. ♫ Purple Haze all around, don't know if I comin' up or down. Am I happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me ♫...."..age five hundered twenty three. Numbers ten through sixty. Don't forget, test next week. You guys can go." Huh? Over already? *Picks up bag and walks out the door*

I forgot about this.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

That's great literature right there!

 

[17pounder]

Re: Perchance to Daydream

I sit, watching; it's been some minutes since commencement. The instructor dances about the board carving out shapes and patterns into the wall. I attempt to attain meaning from his movements and creations, no success. I turn away, what else lives? I see another, fiddling with her pencil. She stares at the dancing man, never looking away for a moment. I look about her, brown hair, down to her shoulders, no, longer. Glowing tan skin, rays of elegance seem to shine outward from her curvaceous body. Her bosom resembles mounds I once grasped as a child in the sandbox, surely the tone is similar. After playing out a few fervid scenarios, I become disinterested. The window steals my attention, oh, but a glass to separate me from infinite possibilities. Blasted glass! Let me breathe! I am suffocating, I begin to hyperventilate: *HUH HAH HUH HAH HUH HA HUH HA*. Wait a minute, I am fine, there is ample oxygen in this room. I look towards the front of the room, the dancing man continues on, I wonder if he has tried out for stage? Stage... It would be cool if I were a rockstar, maybe like Jimi Hendrix. I'd play my axe like nobody's business. ♫ Purple Haze all around, don't know if I comin' up or down. Am I happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me ♫...."..age five hundered twenty three. Numbers ten through sixty. Don't forget, test next week. You guys can go." Huh? Over already? *Picks up bag and walks out the door*

Get out of my head! Been a few years since that happened to me, luckily I grew out of it and I can learn crap for hours on end.