The Post Virtual Reality Sadness
November 16th, 2016Via: Tobias van Schneider:
I think about it this way. I just spent a couple hours painting with fire or any material I want in a 3D space in Virtual Reality. I’m so confident & fluid using these VR tools, they feel almost native. I scale my environment up and down, rotate objects and teleport around my own dream world.
I feel like god for a couple hours, with magical and powerful tools right at my finger tips. I can do anything I want!
After leaving a world like this, the rest of the day in reality makes me kind of sad. I have no more super powers. I want to touch the sky, rotate the clouds, stretch them and paint on them. I feel deeply disturbed and often end up just sitting there, starring at a wall because I just don’t feel like doing anything else. I wouldn’t say I’m feeling depressed, but there is a lack of motivation and sad feeling in my chest.
Sounds similar to the let-down felt by many users of hallucinogens. No surprise, of course.