Boredom used to be a feature of human life — long pauses, empty afternoons, quiet moments where the mind wandered and stitched meaning together. Now it barely exists. Every spare second is filled with screens, notifications, playlists, feeds, and dopamine on demand. But instead of feeling entertained, we feel restless, anxious, and fried. As boredom disappears, something stranger is happening inside our brains: attention is fragmenting, creativity is stalling, and our nervous systems are stuck in a low-grade state of alert. This is the story of how killing boredom may have accidentally broken our ability to relax — and why our brains are freaking out about it.