Cognitive mages, for this reason, will also find experts on astral projection and dream walking as a means for therapeutic techniques and inducing altered states of mind in themselves or others using magic.

Could you tell me more about this? What kinds of "altered states of mind" are we talking, here? How does it work? Could someone adapt this kind of magic in future for other uses? (Nervous laugh is not a real emote and god I wish it was)