How Many People Are Drinking Their Morning Cofee in the Second Life?

Months ago I met that girl on a beach. It was early morning in Europe and I was roaming for a peaceful spot on the grid. It was beautiful sunny morning (as they always are in Second Life), we were alone on the sim, and we hardly spoken. I was enjoying sun on my virtual face, lazyness and silence after long night in the metaverse, and she, as she told, were checking her e-mail. Her daily rhythm in real life was pitching up into the day. Human was starting working day while avatar was lying on the pillows on the beach. Our presence on the grid was with no visible reasons. We were doing nothing at all, we were mostly afk, her client was most of the time out of focus, and my body was reclined back in the chair relaxing before going to sleep. My client was full screen, while my mind was in the virtual world working through the avatar.

It doesn’t take much to meet a lot of people who are walking low-traffic areas to get their thoughts together or to relax. Some are sitting in cafes, on the quiet beaches or other nice places. They are inactive though rarely you will see them with heads fallen. It is important to get into good animation that completes the scene, not just to leave avatar on the grid. And while avatars are going through their lazy anims, humans are doing all the things other than living the second life. Or you can use something like blogHUD to do your blogging from the in-world. Sure you can blog from your browser or even off line. The mere writing of blog is not much of in-world activity. You are leaving your avatar aside or preferably in an animation of sitting behind virtual typewriter. So why being there? Sitting behind virtual typewriter or whatever your avatar prefers in those moments gives kind of boost to your writing genius.

Another time my real life body was attacked by the flu. I was all cold and slow going and I just needed hot sun and seaside dry air to help me going through the night. And I had a date. Though the beach was not the place we intended to spend whole date on, it had to be our first stop. I am in no way insane enough to think that I can feel the heat on avatar’s face nor that any of salty air will run through my nostrils but I knew going to beach will do some of the job. So, I had my cup of tea in the winter night and our bodies looking good under the sun of the second life. It is no surprise that the things we do, the locations we visit, even the way we look in the metaverse is affected by our feelings and mood in real life. What stroke me was the feedback I noticed after about half an hour.

After these and many other episodes it is hard to neglect that feed-back connection. The situation the avatar is in is greatly affecting the state of mind in real life. What are your experiences?