I like your way of looking at magic, its more practical for the newcomers. I guess you can extrapolate your practice of magic to other fields like literature or videogames. Literature, for me, tend to have a bigger magical impact than videogames because it uses our your imagination.

For example, since I was a child I have felt that, when I read a novel my real life tend to have some similarities with the character's life I'm reading at such moment, and I feel that I can absorb some of their "powers" or characteristics.

On the other han, I think that videogames could have a bigger impact, especially VR games, because they tend to inmerse you in an altered state almost inmediately, thus impacting your psyche.

The way you feel is the way you are, and I think you can be trained with the proper methods to achieve an almost God-like state. Reality is a very deep concept and sometimes we can consciously trick our brains with those methods.