Memory Training Software

Quest for Lucidity
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I’ve been thinking about something. It seems to me that there would be a connection with dream recall and memory while awake. Dream recall is important to lucid dreaming, or so I’ve been told, and I’ve already increased mine 10 fold using a DJ, but I want to see if I can get even better. I have always loved to program, and about 5 min ago the idea just occurred to me. I should make a memory training program geared towards lucid dreaming and memory recall. I wanted some opinions on what would be best.

I’m probably going to make it in C++/Qt or flash. I would only use flash because the development time is significantly shorter. I plan on having a way to test visual, auditory memory, and information memory(like memorizing a sentence or the meaning of the sentence). I might also test memorization of intervals of time, but that ones a bit of a strange idea and I’m not sure how helpful it would be. If I did it would be like this. A light flashes a desired amount of times with random intervals in between each flash, and the user has to afterwards click a button with the same time lapses between clicks as the flashes. I would probably want to integrate some kind of scoring system so the user could see themselves improve. Thats all I have come up with right now, but any suggestions are welcome. I’m still in the planning phase as you can see. I haven’t even picked my programming language :smile:… Though it is most likely going to be c++ with Qt.

p.s. no matter what it will be open source :smile:. I don’t like hiding my stuff. It will be available for free and openly to anyone who wants it. Under the GPL probably.

Just had another Idea. I should separate long term and short term memory training. Maybe have a person memorize something and see if they remember it the next day. I could also ask questions like “What did you eat for breakfast?” “When did you eat it?”

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Hey, that sounds like a great idea!

I don’t know, you might have been thinking this, but one thuing you could do is show an image and then ask some questions like “what color dress was the little girl wearing?” or “which of the following objects were in the scene”.

I’ll post later if I have any other/better suggestions. :wink:

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Good idea mattiasdavis. Thanks for the input. I also just had an idea. What if I have the user write a few short sentences about something, and select a few of the words to be key words. Then the next day they write another few sentences about the same thing and make sure to include the key words. The program would then check to see how many of the key words the user remembered to include. The key words would be proper nouns(like a person’s name or a place) or they could be the topic of the writing. Such as trumpet might be a keyword if i wrote about band.

Keep in mind this wouldn’t be the entire program. I wouldn’t make it that boring :happy:. It will have many different parts for training memory in different ways.

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sounds like a great idea, you should also, add a in program DJ, just for the aded touch, cant wait till you release the demo ?
good luck

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Ill do ya one better. When I actually get something usable, I will post the subversion repo. That would allow you to update and see the development version of the program whenever you want. Thats a while away though considering I haven’t even started yet. Right now I am mostly planning, and when I have a decent idea what the program is going to look like and behave like, I will start making it.

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kool, looking foward to it !