Have you ever wondered what factors influence our individual taste in music? Is it based on our individual personality traits, cognitive styles, culture, gender, age, or temporal patterns, or is it the genre or attributes of the music itself that affect our choice? Perhaps it's a combination of elements from both sides of the divide. Nayantara Dutta encourages us to consider all of these. Why do you like the Music you like? Science Weighs in
I have linked her article both above and at the end of this post if you are interested in reading further on these considerations as to why we find some music so impactful and the extent to which it moves us deeply - either emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, or physically.
With this in mind, this month's Dreem-WoTW invites you to write a post inspired by one of your favourite songs, or pieces of music. Please share a YouTube link to your chosen song/music, and a brief commentary as to why you chose it so that your readers can appreciate the piece while they read your submission 🥰
EDIT: Just to clarify, your post should consist of 3 things: YouTube link to your song/music choice, brief commentary as to why you chose that song/music eg: what it means to you, and finally, the piece inspired by the previous two parts of your post. This final part is the main part of your post and can be short story fiction, creative non-fiction, discursive essay, or poetry :-) the only requirement is that it is inspired directly by your chosen song/piece of music and that the link between the two is clear.
Note: If you would like to share the lyrics with your readers, you may share a link to the full written lyrics online but please do not quote more than two lines of lyrics within the body of your post, or you risk having your submission rejected by Dreemport for breaching Fair use guidelines and transgressing into Copyright infringement territory 😜
We hope you find the remit this month an interesting and fun one, and that you find the time to take part in dreem-wotw.
This month the Dreemport submission date is:
Tuesday 28th November between 4 am UTC and 23h59 UTC
This means that you have the best part of 6 days to write and publish to your blog, but please note...
IT IS THE ONLY DATE AND TIMEFRAME WITHIN WHICH SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE S3 R3 CONTEST IN DREEMPORT.
The curation/submission cycle starts and ends at these times so there is unfortunately little room for flexibility. All valid submissions to Dreemport will be reviewed and ranked by public curators the following day.
Part of the grading process includes an allocation of points for engagement... but engagement is only assessed if you do Dreemport curation of the contest posts in Dreemport on the day following the contest submission date. Simply log in to Dreemport on Wednesday 29th November, curate (ie: read and engage😜), and rank the 5 random contest posts assigned to you.
The top 5 in Dreemport will automatically be shortlisted for grading for dreem-wotw prizes, alongside other entries of merit put forward by members of the grading team. We will also be able to access the top 5 Dreemport staff entries in the background and will run two contest pools to keep staff and public entries separate 😊
The dreem-wotw team will then use a Merit grading system that incorporates some aspects of the ORIGINAL Merit Grading Model developed by 
How to use Dreemport
You may want to start by taking a look at these videos by 
If anyone has any difficulty registering and trying out the platform, please tag me or 
This month Dreem-Wotw sponsors Dreemport Featured posts, Hive, and HBI, and adds to the Ecency point prizes.
If your entry is short story fiction or poetry, feel free to post it in the Scholar and Scribe community. All entries (no matter where you post them) can use the #scholarandscribe tag if you wish—this will help you earn both SCHOLAR and SCRIBE tokens.
Learn more about S&S here and consider joining the community if you haven’t already.
Public:
1st: 500 Dreem Tokens, 1 Dreemport Featured Post, 5 Hive, 350 Ecency points, 100 Scholar, 2 Scribe
2nd: 300 Dreem tokens, 2 HBI, 200 Ecency points, 50 Scholar
3rd: 150 Dreem Tokens, 1 HBI, 150 Ecency points, 50 Scholar
4th: 150 Ecency points
5th: 150 Ecency points
Dreemport Staff:
1st : 300 Dreem tokens, 5 Hive, 350 Ecency points, 100 Scholar, 2 Scribe
2nd: 150 Ecency points
3rd: 150 Ecency points
Miscellaneous prizes:
For using the Ecency front end:
Each entry made using the Ecency front end will receive 25 Ecency points sponsored by Dreem-WOTW.
Promotion draw:
Anyone who tags at least 2 new people (not already tagged in the post) who they think would like to take part in the contest, will be entered into a random draw where 1 person will win 250 Ecency points. If the person they tagged also submits a post for the contest, the prize is uplifted by 2 HBI. So get tagging people who you think would be genuinely interested in taking part, and lend them a little encouragement to write and submit their post.
Good luck folks and I hope to see lots of people taking part this month🤗
All new entrants each month will be added to the list.
Please let me know if you would prefer not to be tagged and you will be removed from the list, and if you are reading this and would like to be tagged going forward, please comment below and I will add you💗.
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