Thread: Nfri's Contest of the Month May 2015 [suggestion]

Originally Posted by Nfri

Wbtb fixed and about fragments I think it can be recognized if it was part of the same dream or not. If you cannot see any connection about the two fragments, then it's probably from different dream. I see this limit helpful, because you cannot exceed points of one full recalled dream.

"Dream" does not equal "sleep period". I agree that theme, location, "feel," and other factors can be used to determine if the fragments are from the same dream or not. But limiting # of fragments to 2 per waking is like limiting the number of dreams to 1 per waking, it seems arbitrary and it places a limit on something (recall) that should be encouraged to grow through ever-increasing effort.

In fact the way I have done it personally in the past in the other competitions is that a dream is either recalled as a (potentially series of) fragment(s) or as a whole dream: but every scene that is not common with other scenes or collections of scenes is scored (but only one dream/theme once: either one fragment, or one dream). 5 fragments for what is clearly the same dream get scored as one fragment.

By "dream period" do you mean simply "dream?"

Originally Posted by FryingMan

"Dream" does not equal "sleep period". I agree that theme, location, "feel," and other factors can be used to determine if the fragments are from the same dream or not. But limiting # of fragments to 2 per waking is like limiting the number of dreams to 1 per waking, it seems arbitrary and it places a limit on something (recall) that should be encouraged to grow through ever-increasing effort.

In fact the way I have done it personally in the past in the other competitions is that a dream is either recalled as a (potentially series of) fragment(s) or as a whole dream: but every scene that is not common with other scenes or collections of scenes is scored (but only one dream/theme once: either one fragment, or one dream). 5 fragments for what is clearly the same dream get scored as one fragment.

By "dream period" do you mean simply "dream?"

Yes, It needs to be specified better: By dream period (I see this word period is confusing, my bad) I mean 1 dream, so per 1 sleep/rem period you can have as many points as your dreams recalled = It's not limited fragments points per waking but per dream.
But fragments from the same dream are limited by total 1 point that it can't exceed 1 point for the total dream.