Sleeping around!

Second Life is a strange world! When you sleep, you cannot be there. When sleeping would be allowed, nothing would be possible anymore! The sims would be filled with avatars and their prim expensive clothing, all the processing power being consumed before even a really awake avatar could enter the sim and start moving around.

But beds and other places to sleep are found everywhere. Empty of course! Some are very inspiring.
A few examples. The first really appreciated bed Five found was in the Waste Land sim. (See blog: Five in "the Wastelands" )

Far down under the surface of this sim an abandoned railway tube was constructed. A railway carriage was put in and in this carriage a luxurious bed was placed behind transparent curtains. The contrast between the theme of this world and the sweet presentation of the bed was truly pleasing. The fact that this bed was really hidden contributed to the feeling of discovering something, which is always nice.

Then we continue with something Five thinks is far too simple for SL: the copying of the real world in Second Life. That is the rebuilding of a house on a piece of land, complete with kitchen, coaches fireplace and of course….the bedroom and the bed. The animations for the bedroom are sometimes directly visible, sometimes not even that. This urge to copy the real world, is unknown to Five, but well, who cares?
Then in the above mentioned desert a nice opportunity for Five to construct a sleeping place presented itself. An old railway carriage, dating from the time of the Wild West, lying around near an abandoned railway line, half tumbled on its side immediately fitted Five’s ideas for a nice unexpected hide-out. A camp bed was constructed, a candle for the night and some half withered images of Russian icons were fixed to the wall.

This way of a temporary refuge, a shelter, or even a sanctuary is a very nice metaphor for Second Life as a whole. Sl being a hide-out for real-life. A sanctuary, a place to experiment.
Later on this bolthole in the desert was abandoned and the bed was rebuilt in a cellar cave on Five’s land. Five left the champagne bottle on the bed, and put a flower from the flowershop ‘Five Daisies’ near the bed. The carriage was immediately occupied by another dweller of the desert. He put in hay, a pleasant warm colorful blanket, a nice book, very nice, Five is trying this out. Above an abandoned saloon Five found Nugget Kidd sleeping right on the floor and decided to join him on the floor, joined in dreaming……...

The text of the icon, in the first image is Da Ljoebietje drug druga, russian, means something like: let us love each other, super idea!