Association for the Study of Dreams Forum ~ Jean who moderates this forum is extremely knowledgeable about a whole host of dreaming experiences. Structure of the forum isn't great but it gets the job done. Some extreamly serious and great posts pop up in here as its the forum to the Association for the study of dreams (ASD).

Slowwave Simply the best, dreams made into short comic strips

Sealife Forum ~ Lucid dreaming and the Mayan Tzolkin, young but up and coming forum but best of all is you can discuss the Lucid Crossroads here, in its Dreamspace section.

Mayan Dreamspell ~ A page from the Lucid Crossroads about the Mayan Dreamspell, links to a calculator that works out your mayan zodiac starsign (glyph).

Liquid Dream ~ Great computer based dream diary, it can give you stats, graphs etc on what you've been dreaming about over time which is very impressive and its FREE!

Why I made the whole site? ~ Even though I'm an artist I've always had an intrest in science and the borders of science and this site is a creative expansion of that intrest. The actual idea for this Lucid Dojo site came from a book lent to me by my GoJu ryu sensei. In that book I found out that one of the kata's I practice was taught to a founder of the style by a man in a dream, the description sounded just like a lucid dream to me and made me want to make a place for myself and others to practice whilst lucid.

Why I chose the Reiyukai centre ~ I chose to use my own dojo at the The Reiyukai centre 24 St Mary's, Duke St, Norwich, to make it easy to make the dojo as I had a real life space to recreate. Also it helps me and the others that use the Reiyukai centre get to the Lucid Dojo, as its used by many styles of martial art it seemed appropriate and as its a real place I think it helps to make the Lucid version feel more real. I just went into the real (Reiyukai) dojo last night and it was very weird to be there after a weekend of creating a virtual version!

I'm not saying its a hot bed of Lucid Dreamers for anyone wishing to visit, as far as I can tell it is a centre for some very serious martial arts training. This is a list of the styles offered at the centre. Han Yung Hapkido, Renshinkan Aikido, Judo, Chi Kung, Jeet Kune Do, Dynamic Aikido, Taekwondo, Medau, Wing Tchun Auto Defence, Dragon Fist Kung Fu, NSKC Shotokan Karate, Chen Tai Chi, Gojuryu Karate, Yang Tai Chi, East Coast Shotokan Karate, Choy Li Fut Kung Fu, Bujinkan Budo & Ko-Budo, White Crane Kung Fu, NR School Self Defence, Dynamic Yoga, Crane, Tiger and Dragon Kung Fu, Olympic Wrestling, Chinese Aikido Yoga and White Eye Brow Pak-Mei.Fu Jow.

First off I used a digital camera to take photos of the dojo and the various materials used in its construction. By the way I didn't include the large mirror in the dojo as they can be very distracting in a lucid dream and also give some very odd distortions to body images for some reason no-one really seems to know.

I used some architectural software called Arkey (thanks to TopDog) to construct the Dojo itself. All made in glorious 3-D from the roof to the kick bag.

I then used rendering software to skin the model using the textures I'd photographed from the original dojo

Using photographs I'd then taken from my own dojo or from helpful dojos from around the internet I combined the two in photomanipulation software, the result below. There are many difference between my real life dojo and the lucid dojo, some are subtle and some are very obvious, like the stairs.