this thing called reality

Lately, I have been having a very strange feeling: I want to rewind things just as I rewind them every time I want with my DVR. I was a the theater the other night, and I was really concentrating and paying attention to everything that was going on, but suddenly I tuned out and went somewhere else. I don't know. It is good, that's what art is supposed to do, take you places, unexpected places, but then I had this impulse to want to rewind. It was weird, and because it was a live performance I couldn't do it. I am conditioned to do that. Then I was in SL, and I missed something, and again I wanted to recreate the moment, the feeling, but I couldn't. I guess in that sense SL resembles RL more than I thought. Yes, I could click on the history button and see the chat, but not go back, trace my steps, unless I was recording, but I wasn't, so there...