Windows users: small & simple lucidity-assisting program

**Oneiroknot** · 07-08-2010 04:18 AM

Hey everyone...

I've been reading a lot about how electronic devices tend to malfunction in the dream state. So, as someone who uses my computer a lot, I created this little script using Autohotkey which causes your computer to harmlessly "malfunction" at random intervals.

When you run the EXE file, one of the following events will happen every 15-60 minutes:

Notepad or the command terminal will spontaneously open.
The 'e' key will be disabled for 30 seconds
A box will pop up with a random message about dreaming or reality checking.

You can kill or pause the program by right clicking on the green H icon on the taskbar. The script will only cause one event to happen at a time, so you need to hit "ok" when the message boxes come up or close the notepad/command windows (after you've done a reality check) so that you can get a new event after another 15-60 minutes.

I've been running this thing to help me increase my awareness of strange events happening. Let me know if you decide to try it and give me feed back cause I might make a better version if we can get good ideas

Only tested in Win7

Link:

Download Malfunctions4Lucidity 1.0 here

**simm** · 07-08-2010 09:44 AM

It looks pretty cool, I'm using xp.
I might have to get myself a copy of autohotkey.

**Malfunction** · 07-08-2010 09:58 AM

Wow that's a cool idea. I just downloaded it and it works good on Vista.

**Kaos** · 07-08-2010 04:29 PM

I'll make sure to try it out, great idea for a program.

**GatewayExplorer** · 07-08-2010 09:02 PM

Sounds great, too bad im using a mac, haha. Ill try to download it on my crossover.

**Oneiroknot** · 07-09-2010 07:44 AM

It looks pretty cool, I'm using xp.
I might have to get myself a copy of autohotkey.

I recommend it - it's awesome

If you do get it and want to play around with it, here is the source code I wrote for the lucidity program. Please feel free to tweak it or whatever!

Code:

Code:

Loop 
{

actInProg = 0
sleepTime = 30000
Random, delay_time, 900000, 3600000
Random, choice, 1,7

if(actInProg = 0)
{

; Do a random action, but only if there is no action currently in progress:

actInProg = 1


if choice = 1
{
	MsgBox Are you dreaming?
}
else if choice = 2
{
	MsgBox Do a reality check now.
}
else if choice = 3
{
	MsgBox You could be dreaming.
}
else if choice = 4
{
	MsgBox You will realize that you are dreaming the next time you have a dream.
}
else if choice = 5
{
	RunWait, cmd.exe
}
else if choice = 6
{
	RunWait, Notepad.exe
}
else if choice = 7
{
	Hotkey, e, Off
	Sleep, %sleepTime%
	Suspend
	actInProg = 0
}
else
{
	MsgBox You will have lucid dreams.
}

; If the MsgBox is clicked, there is no longer an action in progress
IfMsgBox Yes
	actInProg = 0
}
else
{
; There's already an action in progress, so do nothing
}

;Wait random time before initiating another malfunction
Sleep, %delay_time%

}

; Label for the disabling Hotkey command 
Off:

**simm** · 07-09-2010 08:29 AM

Wow thanks, I was going to ask for it, but I figured maybe you would want to keep it a secret or something, like banhurt.

**Malfunction** · 07-09-2010 07:58 PM

Does the "e" key get disabled for more than 30 seconds for anyone else? It got disabled for like 2-3 mins and I had to shut down the program for it to be restored.

**Oneiroknot** · 07-10-2010 05:22 AM

Does the "e" key get disabled for more than 30 seconds for anyone else? It got disabled for like 2-3 mins and I had to shut down the program for it to be restored.

Odd. Were you dreaming?

If not, I'm not sure what the problem is. It behaves fine (or rather, it misbehaves properly) when I test it. Did it happen after a long time of the program running or soon after you started up the program?