tried it. definitely works but it requires an immense amount of concentration over a long and consistent period of time. yes, it is essentially giving yourself a form of psychosis via trance, but that's what magic is all about. you are opening yourself up to some kind of force beyond this realm, and asking it, 'please be my mental roommate and take up the mantle of form'. whether or not it is real or a figment of imagination is besides the point; as time goes on the realization is made that there is little difference between the two. your meat brain generates the facade we call reality, and the flesh is malleable. the truth is madness itself.