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How well do your dreams predict the future? Our new parallel contest to Project August is called “Project Uno.”
The goal is to see who can dream up the biggest, international headline of the very first day in August 2014. More specifically, what will be the biggest, most popular headline of August 1, 2014? You must have dreamed of this headline…it must not have been imagined, meditated, etc. You must have had a sleeping dream of this headline in order to enter into this contest.
The procedures will be slightly different than Project August, but the main gist of Project August is still in tact. In fact, these dreams will still be considered Project August dreams (except they’ll be made public).
Dreamers who want to participate will get only ONE ATTEMPT at a headline, and here’s how it will work:
1. Intend to dream about the biggest international headline for the 1st of August only.
2. In the morning, go to the Project August category in the DreamBase and type in your dream, except it will have one modification….
3. When typing your dream, you must provide your dream details AND you must provide your anticipated Aug 1st headline by typing this: “BIGGEST HEADLINE ON AUGUST 1ST, 2014 WILL BE: [put your headline here]”
4. Your headline must resemble the dream details you submitted either by way of metaphor or direct representation.
5. Each contestant will only get ONE attempt. If you try to submit a second headline dream, it will be denied.
6. All Project Uno dreams will be made public, viewable by the general public before August 1st, and they will all be under the “Project August” category.
7. The winner receives non-monetary accolades TBD. We have no money to offer, sorry, but I can offer free advertising or free facebook exposure, something along those lines. If you don’t care about privacy, I’ll post your mug on the front page and give you a chance to highlight yourself. If you do care about privacy, we can work something else out for you.
8. The actual headline on August 1st (the one that will be used to judge the winning dream) will be determined by me, Chris McCleary, on or about August 2, 2014. The DreamBot will help determine the top headline, but it will not be the only factor. The winner may be announced right away or a considerable amount of time afterward (whatever is most convenient to me).
Don’t forget, these dreams go under Project August. I will know they are Project Uno dreams because of your expected headline in all caps at the end of the dream input. Also remember that you only get one chance, one input. If you don’t like the dream you got, just put it in as a regular Project August dream and try for Project Uno the next night. Entries will no longer be considered after June 30, 2014.
If you have ANY questions, please ask them below so that others can benefit.
You can view the Project Uno dreams at this link
QUESTIONS:
1. “What newspaper will be used to determine the headline? Should you focus on One newspaper headlines? I am asking to see what happen will be printed in New York papers for the first week of August. As the headlines for a London paper is going to be different then the headlines for New York and Los Angeles.”
Answer: This is a great point. Let’s actually look at it differently. I’m going to take everyone’s Uno dream and find a matching headline (if it has one). Then, I’ll score it based on the DreamSeer scale, taking into account the hits and inaccuracies. Then, I’ll rack and stack the scores, skimming off just the top ones (i.e. the ones that are the most accurate). Then, I judge the associated headlines to see which one was the biggest headline.
Depending on the number of contestants, I MAY have two categories (one for the biggest headline hit and one for the highest DreamSeer score).
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