I find it hard to believe that I have to say this to adults, but magic isn't real. Yes, you heard me right. Despite the countless TikTok trends, Instagram posts, and self-help books claiming otherwise, magic—in the sense of manifesting desires out of thin air, reality shifting to Hogwarts, or summoning a spirit to do your bidding—is not a thing. As a lucid dreaming teacher and researcher, I spend a ridiculous amount of time having to argue with people who make absurd mystica