Mad With Boredom Analysis

Mad with boredom.
The cell was dark and dreary as the prisoner sat with shackles gripped against his bitter cold hands. Three weeks, three weeks since he had been charged of robbery. Now, here he was stuck in a torturous place. Had the robbery gone perfectly to plan he would be on an island basking in the sun but, alas that was not what happened. There was absolutely nothing to do expect to stare at a wall. So, he became dreadfully bored His eyes drifted to a dark world for a little bit. However, when he opened his eyes instead of seeing a prison cell he saw he was on a beach with sand that was smooth and warm and crystal blue oceans. The man threw his head back and gave out a loud and hearty laugh. In truth, the prisoner did not suddenly teleport from his prisoner cell to a beach. He was simply hallucinating. In truth, people experience an emotion call boredom which can lead to hallucinations. Boredom should be an emotion avoided because boredom can cause dangerous and possibly deadly acts can lead to physical health issues and can lead to mental problems.

One account was that in the nineteen-thirties a psychologist by the of Joseph Ephraim Barmack found out that factory workers consumed not only caffeine but dangerous drugs as well to cope with the boredom that came with the job at the factory (Source 4). Back when the roman empire was still around people vandalized many buildings because they were bored. Evidence of the graffiti still remain intact many years later. (source 4). Sometimes even the simplest of crimes can lead to horrific