SleepTimer

## SleepTimer

When something takes control of your character, a single alert appears with
the effect's icon, its name, and a countdown. The backdrop pulses once per
second in time with the number, so you can track it in peripheral vision
while watching raid frames.

That is the whole addon. One frame, for you, for loss of control.

Built for **The Burning Crusade Classic — Anniversary Edition** (2.5.6).

### Overlapping effects

When more than one effect is active, the alert shows the one ending **last**.
A two-second stun landing on top of a six-second fear should not shorten your
countdown to two — the question the frame answers is "when do I get control
back". When the displayed effect expires it re-checks rather than hiding, in
case something longer is still running.

### What counts as loss of control

On by default: stun, fear, confuse, charm, possess, sleep, horror, banish and
shackle — the effects that take your character away from you.

Off by default: root, snare, daze, disarm, silence, pacify and school
interrupt. You are still driving through those. Any of them can be switched
on individually, and silence and school interrupt are worth considering if
you heal.

### Options

`/st` opens the options window: overall scale, the one-second pulse, and a
checkbox per effect category. Opening the window unlocks the alert so you can
drag it into place and closing it locks it again — there is no separate lock
setting. Test draws a random effect from your enabled categories, so the
preview shows what you will actually see.

### Why it is small

The client exposes loss-of-control information directly, reporting each
active effect with its category, spell, icon and remaining time. SleepTimer
reads that rather than maintaining a spell ID table and scanning auras, so
there is nothing to update when a new source of crowd control appears.