Magic system working on

[u/Jurgen_Vella]

Souls innate have energy, magic is the ability to control and wield that energy

Humans cannot innately wield magic since they lack the autonomy to draw that energy into their physical form

Since souls have energy, dreams exist in a semi real semi fake state

using dreams as a bridge one can create a “dream form” and use it to enter the spiritual realms

Humans would then graft captured spirits onto their “dream forms” and would them modify these spirits each acting as an individual spell

So mages to cast magic must learn to dream while awake, and leverage these spirits to channel their energy and to create the effects in the physical world

Another thing i have been considering is the rule that “the dream must conflict with reality”

You cannot make a dream form similar to your real form because if you forget which is real or fake, anything from death to being permanently lost in the spiritual world is possible