Years back I knew someone who was really into lucid dreaming.

They had never actually had a lucid dream, but that inevitably only made them more into it.

They read books on lucid dreaming and probably attended symposia on lucid dreaming.

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Reader, like my friend I have never had a lucid dream.

But I imagine it’s a bit likeInfinite Craft, the latest online window game from Neal Agarwal.

We are all lost now.

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Do not send help.

Infinite Craft is a highly evolved version of those games where you combine items to get better items.

I think these used to be called alchemy games?

But anyway, you combine WATER with FIRE and you get STEAM.

That kind of thing.

Or you’re hanging out with a porn genie.

I am not here to judge.

I just got LAMP.

But our editorial director got OZYMANDIAS.

Graham, who started all this, got BATPOPE.

One of our writers has turned out to be an Infinite Craft genius.

They’re global first for a handful of these things.

I don’t understand any of them, but that probably makes success all the sweeter.

What a pleasure to be able to peer into others' imaginations like this.

Infinite Craft really does feel like a chance to see how your friends' brains truly work.

And not just your friends.

Online there are people just combining numbers, or just combining diseases.

Meanwhile, I combine PLANT and WIZARD and make DRUID, which feels accurate but rather basic really.

At least I got rid of that genie.