'Lucid Dream Inducer' V1.10 - A program for Amiga computers Copyright © 1994-1995 by Tero Auvinen email: ta3153@bessel.tutech.fi Read the whole documentation before using! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents: ~~~~~~~~~ 1. Legal things 2. What is 'Lucid Dream Inducer' 3. Requirements 4. Installation 5. Usage 6. Bugs & more, technical stuff 7. History 1. Legal things =============== Copyright © 1994-1995 by Tero Auvinen 'Lucid Dream Inducer' (LDI) is a *mailware* program. You are required send me email if you use this program frequently!!! Permission is granted to freely distribute this program without ANY profit (except for some reasonable media fee). The program may not be altered in any way and *cannot* be used for com- mercial purposes in any situation. NO WARRANTY! I hereby reject any liability or responsibility for these or any other direct /indirect consequences from the use of LDI whatsoever. This includes, but is not limited to, damage to your equipment, damage to your data, personal inju- ries, financial loss or any other kinds of side-effects. It is your responsi- bility to take any precautions necessary to protect yourself from these or any other effects. If the laws of your country or territory state that I am responsible of any- thing mentioned above, you may not use or distribute this program. 2. What is 'Lucid Dream Inducer'? ================================= LDI (Lucid Dream Inducer) is a program designed to affect your dreams, and by doing so, it may help you to have lucid dreams. LDI does this by either exe- cuting a program/script (for playing samples/speech etc.) or for example flashing a LED thru the parallel port. If you are newbie in lucid dreaming, check out the following web page: 'http://www.lucidity.com'. There you can find some general information about lucid dreaming. (And great books about LD'ing too.) Look at the hardware prices, say 'YIKES!!!!!', and learn how to use this program instead :) Ok, they need to get the R&D money from somewhere, so you might consider supporting their valuable work by buying their products. *** I'm NOT in any way connected with Lucidity Institute!!! *** In order to use the full power of this program, you need be familiar with electronics. 3. Requirements =============== LDI requires Kickstart 2.0+ and ReqTools.library 37+(not included). And if you want to use LED-inducing you have to build a little bit of electronics into the parallel port. Read chapter "6. Bugs & more, technical stuff" for information about this. This program is written in a system friendly matter EXCEPT what comes to the parallel port handling, it bangs straight to the hardware... So, it might *not* work on A600, A1200 and up. (It's been reported that LDI works atleast on A500 & A1200.) 4. Installation =============== Just copy the executable somewhere the along the path. Or if you want to, make a bootable disk which you can use on some old A500 :) The program searches the prefs file from ENVARC: Remember to assign ENVARC: somewhere if you use floppy! The REM file (eye movement data) is initially saved with the filename 'ldi:sfile', so remember to assign ldi: somewhere too. Or if you are using floppy, rename it as 'ldi'. 5. Usage ======== If you want it to detach from cli, 'run >nil: 'cue threshold level'. The condition is tested once in a minute. Example: If the program detects 30 eye movements in a minute and the threshold value is 34, no cue is made. o Detect REM - When this item is checked, the program makes cues only when the 'set cue threshold' condition is met. o Save REM file - The program logs the eye movement data. So, you can save the log file for later analyzing (program called "rem" in the archive will do that). This file will be saved upon exit with the following (initial) filename: 'ldi:sfile'. Well, there is another way of saving it. Just check out the 'Statistics' window when pressing the 'Start/Stop' gadget for the second time. (Applies only if this item is checked.) Keys: ~~~~~ You can also use cursor keys to fine-tune the cuetime. When pressing right shift the time changes in 10 minute steps. Pressing 't' when LDI's window is activated, toggles the state of the dataline 0. (To help you adjust the right brightness for the LED for example.) Pressing 'ESC' quits the program. 6. Bugs & more, technical stuff =============================== Known bugs: ~~~~~~~~~~~ Under some circumstances, the program just might go crazy. Report all strange behaviour! LDI doesn't check EVERYTHING. Don't use it when you are *VERY* low on memory. But on the other hand, then you probably can't even start the program. (no memory for window etc.) Parallel port: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dataline 0 in the parallel port is used as output when in 'Parallel' mode. Dataline 1 is used as input for the eye movement detector hardware. HIGH state means 'eye movement detected'. (Sampled once per second.) Dataline 2 is used as 'Reality test button' input. LOW state in this line causes a cue to occur IMMEDIATELY. Hardware: ~~~~~~~~~ REM-detection: I've built an eye movement detector hardware. And it works too. Email me for more info about it. LED inducer: I've built a little circuit which consists of: 2 resistors, 1 pot(preset), 1 transistor, 1 LED (red, 5mm diam.) It's made up so that when dataline 0 goes HIGH, the transistor saturates and the LED lights up. I have NOT included any schematics of this circuit. If you want to, you could build one yourself. BUT I'M NOT IN ANY WAYS RESPONSIBLE IF YOU END UP WITH FRIED AMIGA!!!! READ THE CHAPTER '1.LEGAL THINGS' !!! Misc info: ~~~~~~~~~~ I've built a headset too, it's made from an old sunglasses :) I tried using swim-goggles too but they cause 'pressure' to my eyes, so they are somehow uncomfortable to use. And when I'm sleeping with the headset on, a wire goes from headset into the computer (into the rem-detector hardware, actually). I'm currently working on more comfortable headset/goggles/mask/whatever. __/\__ __/\__ \ oø / Comments, suggestions and bug reports *are* welcome. \ oø / / \/ \ email: ta3153@bessel.tutech.fi / \/ \ ¯¯\/¯¯ ¯¯\/¯¯ 7. History ========== 1.10 - Added few more functions, including: REM detection, support for 'Reality test' button, saving of the eye movement data. 1.09 - (not released) Squashed that address error bug! It truly was my mistake. I used the imsg->iaddress field in a way that it shouldn't be used. Stupid me, it even says in RKRM's when NOT to rely on iaddress contents... 1.08 - First public release, problems with intuimessage handling(?!)