Those two words, "realism" and "magic", are synonyms.
Go outside tonight and look up. You are literally bathed in the light of other days, from a thousand distant suns.
I have, for a very brief moment of my life, watched every single droplet of the worlds tallest waterfall, halted motionless in their fall, catching and reflecting the days light as uncountable glittering diamonds suspended in space.
I've somersaulted out the door of an aircraft in flight, and joined my friends at play miles above the earth, children born to and of the wind and the sunset.
We live in a world where it is possible to very literally step into the sky... to hover, to soar, to swoop, and fly among the red-tail hawks, and to settle gently back to earth at will.
One fine day in a kelp forest, 50 ft beneath the surface of the sea, I played hide-and-go-seek with young seals. At one point I felt a tugging at my foot... and realized that the youngster I had been seeking had circled around and decided to hitch a ride on my fin. Later that night, not 100 ft off the coast, I was tackled by a sea otter who was absolutely insistent that I was there to be his playmate for the next half-hour. (Turns out he was right.)
Pick up a copy of e.e. cummings "Complete Poems". As you read of his Love, and pain, and human experience, be awed that you live in an age when it is possible to hold in your hands the entire life's work of a man you've never met.
Be (and feel yourself being) Loved, even when you don't remotely deserve it.
Use any of a zillion resources on the internet to learn about Special Relativity. (It's entirely possible to learn most of the basics in under an hour, with essentially zero math.) The universe is weirder and stranger than you can possibly imagine... and the rules (if there are any) are wholly different than what you think they are.
Listen to a symphony, recorded in pristine clarity by a modern orchestra, written by a man who died nearly two hundred years ago... and was deaf. Consider all that had to happen in order to bring that inspiration from his heart to your ears, two centuries later.
Stop and wonder that human beings have the ability to feel a sense of "beauty" at all.
Arthur C. Clark famously wrote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". To it, I would add this corollary: "Any sufficiently advanced recognition of how the universe works and the wonders that it holds, render it indistinguishable from magic."