I feel like this is a common semantic disagreement. Some people want to encourage disconnecting yourself from external stimulus, and just enjoying your own tho

I feel like this is a common semantic disagreement. Some people want to encourage disconnecting yourself from external stimulus, and just enjoying your own thoughts, and use the word "boredom" to describe this. Whereas other people feel that "boredom" means the frustrating state of being entirely unengaged. I sometimes wonder if people who don't disconnect very often haven't experienced much of the latter kind of boredom, and so aren't as aware of it as a negative thing.