History Main / Hyperawareness

* Malcom of MalcomInTheMiddle is shown to have this in the first episode, part of how they deduce he's a child prodigy.

* Comedian Adam Carolla claimed to suffer from hyperawareness during his radio show. His actual complaint was more along the lines of not being able to ignore the little things wrong in a situation the way most people can. (Notable example: on multiple occasions, a caller would phone in and their smoke detector's "low battery" chirp would be overheard on the call. It would drive him nuts that they didn't replace the battery the instant they first heard the chirp.)

* Same goes for many people with autism.

* Possible with the Super-Senses power in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. In this version, it is actually possible to have HyperAwareness with ''sonar'' as though you're a mixture of {{Daredevil}} and Literature/SherlockHolmes.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Tattletale has this an actual superpower, which she uses [[BreakThemByTalking to great effect]]. Although [[PsychicNosebleed overusing it gives her incredibly painful migraines]].

* The RobertDowneyJr ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' film shows the downside of this: it ''never'' turns off and he's almost constantly being overloaded. In the sequel, the gypsy queen asks, "What do you see?" Holmes replies, "Everything. That is my curse."

* SherlockHolmes is probably the most famous example, being the TropeNamer for SherlockScan.

* Deconstructed in ''Literature/TheCuriousIncidentOfTheDogInTheNightTime''. The autistic protagonist "sees everything," and at one point he tries to explain this to the reader. He talks about a particular moment of his life, looking at a field of cows, and he remembers the slope of the field and the patterns on the cows and the position of the sun in the sky and one detail after another after another and all of this goes through his conscious mind at once... he can barely handle being in a room he's never been in before, because of all the information crowding in on him at once. Only familiarity makes things better, and he won't even move the furniture in his house to a different configuration for fear of the effect on his mind. He doesn't quite consider this BlessedWithSuck, since he's a SherlockHolmes fanboy and likes being able to use the SherlockScan, but it definitely impairs his ability to live a normal life. However, his being autistic (and thus having trouble understanding people,) means that, even though he notices all the details a SherlockScan requires, he has trouble analysing what those details mean in context and putting together the sort of deduction that Sherlock might.

** [[spoiler:[[SherlockHolmes James Watson]]]] has all the analytical abilities that Zimmerman has but turned up to eleven.

* Possible with the Super-Senses power in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. In this version, it is actually possible to have HyperAwareness with ''sonar'' as though you're a mixture of {{Daredevil}} and SherlockHolmes.

* The changeling who interrogates Shadowfax in the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friends hip Is Magic]] fanfiction, http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation You Obey, ]] has the ability to not only read even the smallest cues from his victims, but also read their auras to the point where he [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation knows when he's being lied to.]]

* Doctor Alex Brisbane from ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', when the he, Yugi and his friends go to the inner places of a temple, says that he observes his surroundings since his childhood, preventing that they go into traps. It is the second time that he enters the temple. [[spoiler:Apparently not true because he's currently possessed by Alexander The Great's EnemyWithout who knows every details of the temple.]]

* In ShannonHale's ''[[BooksOfBayern River Secrets]]'', Razo apparently has this ability but never noticed it. His commanding officer asks him a series of questions about small details he's observed (such as "Who do you know who has ink stains on their hands?"), which Razo answers easily, and seems surprised when he's told that [[IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat most people wouldn't have noticed]].

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Tattletale has this an actual superpower, although [[PsychicNosebleed overusing it gives her incredibly painful migraines]].

* In ''[[TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse Aberrant]]'', characters can take points in Mega-Perception. With Mega-Perception, noting and remembering all the license plate numbers in the parking lot, ''Bourne''-style, is level one on a five-level scale.

* Kopaka forom ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' seems to be developing this. Having {{X-Ray Vision}} probably helps.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': When [[JonasQuinn Jonas Quinn]] is placed on the SG-1 team, he shows to have skills at recall and noticing tiny details that other characters found spooky. Though it serves the story for him to quickly be able to replace Daniel Jackson on SG-1, it is indicated to be because he (or possibly his species) is slightly [[HollywoodEvolution more evolved]] than Earth-based humans in one episode of the series.

* The T-850 Terminator in ''Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' revealed that he had basic knowledge of human physiology and was able to deduce whether or not a human was lying or [[LivingLieDetector otherwise being deceitful.]]
* Colonel Hal Moore in ''WeWereSoldiers'' seemed to have a situational awareness that seriously bordered on pre-cognition with him being able to read the tide of battle a little too well. In this case it was a form of GenreSavvy resulting from [[OldSoldier decades of military service,]] one shared by [[NotSoDifferent the North Vietnamese commander in turn.]]

* The main character from ''Lock-On!'' has this in his left eye which he calls his Shutter Eye. It is so powerful that he can even use it to detect freshly made dents in a wooden floor to track where a friend had walked off to. However it is shown that if he overuses this he becomes incredibly fatigued. To limit it he usually wears an eye patch over it.

* ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm's'' [[OriginalCharacter Sonata]]. She's [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic an unicorn]] with the special talent of hyper awareness, an ability she shares with [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo]] as part of her status as a CompositeCharacter of different ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' characters. This ability is quite handy to her, [[spoiler:especially for her blackmailing activities]].

* In ShannonHale's ''River Secrets'', Razo apparently has this ability but never noticed it. His commanding officer asks him a series of questions about small details he's observed (such as "Who do you know who has ink stains on their hands?"), which Razo answers easily, and seems surprised when he's told that [[IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat most people wouldn't have noticed]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Deus Ex Human Revolution}}'' allows [[{{Badass}} Adam Jensen]] is able to gain this through a few augs. In particular, the social enhancer, which allows Jensen to analyse, and notice things that players wouldn't particularly notice. It helps with persuading and convincing NPCs of doing what you want them to do. (With the help of pheromones.)

* Gunslingers were trained in this art in Stephen King's ''TheDarkTower'' series.