It might be tempting to think of bliss as the opposite of misery, but the true opposite of misery is boredom: that baseline state of mind marked by a a psychological absence of stimuli. 

This absence can carry discomfort but to truly encounter boredom is to see that the two are different. Boredom can exist without discomfort.

You might first come to terms with this when you find boredom arrive accompanied not by its usual companion, discomfort, but by comfort. And you learn that, all that you have associated as boredom have not been boredom at all but reactions to boredom: 

The lesson might arrive on a cool Saturday morning, as a slow recovery from a particularly long episode of sleep unfolds. A noticing of what can be called spaceliness, pointing to the psychological quality of space free from the discomforts (restlessness or ennui) so often associated with boredom.

Nothing will help you reset your body and mind like sleep. But it is important to note proximity to boredom presents grounds for encountering insights that would otherwise go unnoticed. 

The thing about sleep is that your exposure to it sits outside your volition. You cannot, for example, decide to sleep for twenty seconds or stay sleeping for twenty straight hours or reliably remain conscious in your sleep. But staying with boredom is well within the sphere of your volition. You can decide to sit with it for as long as you can, to see what it is and what it might deliver. 

At first, as you interact with it, all it might deliver is sleep. But it can only deliver sleep for so long. Its true delivery is a glimpse into what it truly is: nothingness. A nothingness that shifts into, and boards, every state of mind.