Waiting, whether it's in a doctor's waiting room, waiting for food at a restaurant, waiting on line to buy something or have service done, or just waiting for someone else to show up. Also, I get bored when people just keep rambling on and never ask for any feedback. Super-long church sermons can also be boring when we got the message in the first ten minutes. Waiting to fall asleep again causes the same thing.

I start daydreaming when I get bored, and man, do I daydream. During business meetings and presentations, boy, someone could be rambling on about metrics and quarterly reports and I'm thinking more about what the faerie characters in my novel series should look like. I don't attend school anymore, but during long lectures where there was a total lack of engagement, I'd start daydreaming also. If you don't keep me engaged and interested in the first twenty minutes, adios, I've sprouted wings and I'm up in the clouds, baby!

Driving, especially on a highway, triggers the exact opposite reaction for some strange reason (I'm guessing because of a subconscious thought process going). I play music from fantasy RPGs video games, epic battle music (stuff like Two Steps From Hell), and power metal, and holy crap, my mind is a full-throttled inspiration engine that feels like it could write something better than Lord of the Rings in an hour. Of course, by the time I get home and hop back on my computer to put all that stuff into action, 90% of what I was thinking about has already moved on.