Animal Machine

Special keys

Our life, being a series of moments - a few milliseconds to many seconds long, can get disrupted. Load up with one key and it enables you to lock onto a thought path for much longer. This key will reduce the amount the attention twitches. Along with the relaxing effect it can enable you to solve problems that require a lot of thought. The effect can bring about laughter at rather ordinary events, though this diminishes over time as you get accustomed to the way it works on your mind. It is one of the many keys that provide that all important change, change that gives reward and satisfaction.

With the ability to visualize and imagine things, pictures can be brought to the fore with eyes closed or open. Sounds can be replayed. Some keys can interfere with the usual way we manage these inner workings. Some will see this as spiritual enlightenment rather than the reality of a machine behaving in a way that we are not accustomed to. Those vibrant flashing effects, distorted, beautiful they may be, are normally reserved for those with things like synaesthesia. When a key unleashes spurious signals, amplifying ones that would normally be ignored and unnoticed the mind stumbles to keep up. Dormant memories can be brought to the fore with messages tripping over one another. They can hijack many pathways including those from the inner ear which causes rapid head spin and juddering. Can you use a key and hold your nerve? The attention will be threshed and scattered and difficult to manage. Use of keys need not be restricted to those that want a distraction from the humdrum of existence. It may help you appreciate your irrelevance and get further under the skin of being a machine. Just pray that the key does not jam in the lock.