"What exactly determines as individual's paranatural competence is unknown, but it is largely believed that some [REDACTED] exists within the body and that, like all muscles, it can be exercised."
— Control, "Research & Records: Parautility"
An index that covers all tropes related to the paranormal phenomena of Psychic Powers, including its practitioners, various applications and other related tropes.
The various different types of psychic powers, practitioners and other related tropes:
- 90% of Your Brain: Having conscious access to more than 10% to your brain gives you powers.
- Animal Eye Spy: A sensory Psychic Link with an animal or animals.
- Astral Projection: The spirit acts elsewhere while the body is unconscious.
- An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost: A "ghost" turns out to be a living person's disembodied soul.
- The Astrologer: Someone who predicts the future by reading the stars.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: A psychic battle against an internal or external threat to the mind's integrity.
- Beware the Mind Reader: People with Telepathy can't be trusted.
- Brain Critical Mass: High intelligence = psychic powers
- Chrome Dome Psi: Bald people are usually the ones who're psychic.
- Dirty Mind-Reading: A telepath picks up thoughts about sex from other people.
- Doppelganger Link: Doppelgangers have a Psychic Link.
- Dream Spying: A character dreams of something that is currently happening somewhere else.
- Dream Walker: Someone who can travel through the dreams of others.
- Dream Weaver: Someone who can shape dreams any way they want.
- Dreaming of Times Gone By: The power to see past events; Recognition or Retrocognition.
- The Empath: The power to read emotions.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: Clarity of mind makes you super.
- Exposition Beam: Instantly delivering exposition directly into someone's mind.
- Forgot About the Mind Reader: A person forgets that a mind-reader is present and thinks something they don't want known.
- Fortune Teller: Mystical person with powers of telling your fortune.
- Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Evolution means psychic powers.
- I See Dead People: Mediums are a special category of psychic; people with a sixth sense that allows them to see, hear and/or touch ghosts for better or for worse.
- Jedi Mind Trick: The psychic power to hide one's presence.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: A character or characters enter a physical manifestation of someone's mind.
- Levitating Lotus Position: The power to float when in a Zen state of mind.
- Magic by Any Other Name: Fictional magic never referred to as "magic"; often, "psychic powers" is offered as an alternative, pseudo-scientific definition.
- Magic or Psychic?: Psychic powers and sorcery are very similar.
- Magnetic Medium: Psychics tend to attract things only they can perceive. Whether they're unknowingly sending out psychic signals or just bad luck is anyone's guess.
- Making a Splash: The power to manipulate water with one's mind; Hydrokinesis.
- Master of Illusion: The power to make others see things that aren't actually there.
- Master of the Levitating Blades: Applying telekinesis onto physical weaponry for extra effectiveness.
- Medicate the Medium: They aren't crazy; those are superpowers!
- Mental Affair: Having sex in the mental world.
- Mental Fusion: A Psychic Link that amplifies the parts through the whole.
- Mentally Unwell, Special Senses: People with mental problems can see or sense things that others cannot.
- Mental World: A world that resides inside a character's mind.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Sometimes telepathy means you'll see things you wish you didn't.
- Mind over Manners: Good guys don't use their powers on others because doing so would be wrong.
- Mind over Matter: The power to lift and control objects mentally; Telekinesis or Psychokinesis.
- Mind Rape: A psychic violation of another's mind.
- Mindlink Mates: A Psychic Link treated intimately between lovers.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Psychics can sense important stuff happening.
- Near-Death Clairvoyance: Your brain develops psychic clarity as it dies.
- Not-So-Phony Psychic: Well, would you look at that; that Phony Psychic actually was psychic after all.
- Out-of-Clothes Experience: Your soul/mind doesn't have clothes, so in out-of-body experiences you're naked.
- Perception Filter: The power to cloak yourself with your mind, either by projecting your absence onto your body or clouding other people's sensory perception of you.
- Pest Controller: Someone with an ability to mass-mind control bugs, rats, and many other types of pests to do their bidding.
- Phony Psychic: They say they have psychic powers, but don't.
- Playing with Fire: The power to start fires with one's mind; Pyrokinesis.
- Police Psychic: A person with psychic powers use them to help law enforcement.
- Poke in the Third Eye: You want the mind-reader to mind their own business? Blast them with bad vibes or frightening thoughts and they'll learn to back off.
- Power Floats: The power to fly using only one's mind; Levitation.
- Psi Blast: Psychic energy blasts.
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Putting your fingers to your temples = Psychic Powers Activate!
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Mind-controlling someone into killing themself.
- Psychic Block Defense: Immunity to mental attacks or invasion.
- Psychic Children: Kids with psychic powers.
- Psychic Glimpse of Death: A Psychic Link is made between a dying person and our protagonist.
- Psychic Link: An ongoing connection between minds.
- Psychic Nosebleed: The strain of using their powers usually causes nosebleeding.
- Psychic Radar: Their Spider-Sense lets them detect people.
- Psychic Starship Pilot: It takes psychic powers to properly fly a spaceship.
- Psychic Static: Telepathy impeded by useless thoughts.
- Psychic Strangle: Telekinetically choking someone.
- Psychic Surgery: Powers that find the bad thing inside of you and rip it out. Instant cure!
- Psychic Teleportation: Being psychic means you can teleport.
- Psychometry: Touching things gives you psychic visions.
- Reality Warper: Someone who can change the way that the world is put together.
- Seers: Those who have the ability to see into distant space and/or time outside the present.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: A Psychic Link lets them experience another person's senses.
- Sex by Proxy: A third person is involved in sexual intercourse without being physically there.
- Spider-Sense: A psychic ability to know when something is about to happen, and react accordingly to prevent some kind of harm.
- Spoon Bending: Bending a spoon = psychic.
- Synchronization: Someone's sensations (e.g., pain) are felt by something/somebody else simultaneously.
- Telepathic Spacemen: Psychic space aliens!
- Telepathy: The power to read thoughts.
- Time Master: The ability to alter time — either on an individual or cosmic basis — using one's mind; Chronokinesis.
- Touch Telepathy: Touching someone lets you read their mind!
- Transferable Memory: Memories can be manipulated and copied like data.
- Twin Telepathy: Twins have a Psychic Link.
- Unhappy Medium: Having psychic powers can suck.
- Willing Channeler: A person with a special brain that allows others to take over their bodies.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Psychosomatic conditions manifesting as Power Incontinence when your powers are mental in nature.