People have had similar experiences for least a couple thousand years.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-9

All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Or, as one translation put:

Everything is futile.