hi NyxCC - thanks for the post! Actually I was repairing the deck at our house today and came across a piece of Roman pottery in the garden - small sherd of plain undecorated red ware. We live now in the outskirts of what was a Roman legionary fortress back in the day in the UK so this stuff can get mixed up in the soil fill. I walk most days past the partially exposed ruins of the amphitheatre on my way to work which is pretty cool (in summer they show movies in it and do occ re-enactments). It was about the only thing (other than my wife!) that brought me over here from NZ. The amphitheatre challenge sounds cool but complex!!! Did you manage to give it a go????

Anyways been thinking about my LDing. Trying to work out my next plan for the next LD. I want to focus on trying to achieve something that will make me want to come back for more. I think I've become so focused on just working out a way to get lucid regularly I've kind of lost try on why I might want to get lucid.

So heres the plan - in the next lucid I stabilize I'll take flight try and find some water and plunge down into it at high speed and swim underwater for as long as I can.

I really miss swimming in the sea since I've been in the UK - I used to surf in NZ and we always used to swim in the rivers on a hot day or head to the beach, so I swim whenever I can when we're abroad (sorry people from the UK but its just too cold or murky here!). I'd love to be plunging into the water or surf tonight! just the feeling of the salt water would be awesome.

This seems achievable as it doesn't rely on me having massive dream control to change my environment. and hopefully the tactile stimulation of swimming would keep me lucid and dreaming and just like the other night the idea of swimming of an 'alien' ocean would give me a huge buzz.

So there it is the challenge I've laid down for myself - now I've got to try and make it happen!