Taller stage - hmm... I have to think about that one. It might take away from the feeling of togetherness in there. And of course the large beautiful Indo Heriz carpet in the center wouldn't fit.

Someone mentioned adding a window. We've talked about this too, the idea being many folks in line just want to know what's going on, not necessarily interested in staying in there if only they knew. Problem with the window is inside the dome would feel like folks are watching you - less private.

Some have suggested video feed for the same approach, but I'll be caught dead when there's cameras in the dome.

Bigger dome? Don't say that! :) We really really don't want to re-build the dome. We just finished building this one a couple months ago! Anyway, this would probably work, though it'd make everything more difficult for us to set up, etc. and we have to re-do the carpeting, covering, etc. and bigger might mean less cozy. It's not out of the question though.

One big main idea is to have a no sleeping rule. Unconscious people aren't good dome energy anyway, most think. This is our leading approach. Sleeping people take up more room and bring down the energy. We'll have to present a list of rules as people enter then. This should go far.

Anyway, there's some thoughts, thanks for the input! We made a Hookahdome tribe to carry on these types of conversations in - I know this is a bit off-subject from this tribe.

I know the line sucks and we're really sorry you got the feeling you did from it. We will definitely improve things for next year.

Soren