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Do People Really Find Plane Flights Boring?
Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorI haven't been on an airplane in a long time but I used to travel on them a fair amount when I was younger and I never understood being bored on airplanes. Tired, sure; all that time sitting in a metal tin can filled with pressurized recycled air, makes sense it would tend to make people tired, but I would just fall asleep if I got tired so...boredom problem solved.
So surely boredom can't actually be the primary complaint about plane flights? It must be something else. Perhaps pain or discomfort? Or anxiety? Maybe the small size of the seats and inadequate legroom? Maybe having the type of acrophobia that makes one afraid of flying? I actually do have acrophobia, but it seems to primarily be set off in an open air context--I'd only worry about my plane crashing if it was experiencing severe turbulence or if I had reason to believe it was already in danger of crashing. Which is maybe another reason I would never get bored on flights. I love looking out the window. Plane rides have the ultimate view.
But even if I couldn't look out the window, I could still read or take something else to occupy me. And failing any of that, I could daydream.
So am I just the weirdo for thinking plane flights are fun and other people really do find them boring, or is the dislike of plane flights (and maybe the boredom too) actually caused by discomfort or anxiety as I theorize above?
So surely boredom can't actually be the primary complaint about plane flights? It must be something else. Perhaps pain or discomfort? Or anxiety? Maybe the small size of the seats and inadequate legroom? Maybe having the type of acrophobia that makes one afraid of flying? I actually do have acrophobia, but it seems to primarily be set off in an open air context--I'd only worry about my plane crashing if it was experiencing severe turbulence or if I had reason to believe it was already in danger of crashing. Which is maybe another reason I would never get bored on flights. I love looking out the window. Plane rides have the ultimate view.
But even if I couldn't look out the window, I could still read or take something else to occupy me. And failing any of that, I could daydream.
So am I just the weirdo for thinking plane flights are fun and other people really do find them boring, or is the dislike of plane flights (and maybe the boredom too) actually caused by discomfort or anxiety as I theorize above?
