This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations of extrasensory perception or the ''sixth sense''.

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from fiction are not included.

Psychic abilities

Astral projection Astral projection (also known as astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a subtle body called an " astral body" through which consciousness can functio ...

or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or

mental body The mental body (the mind) is one of the subtle bodies in esoteric philosophies, in some religious teachings and in New Age thought. It is understood as a sort of body made up of thoughts, just as the emotional body consists of emotions and the ...

, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one’s consciousness is felt to temporarily separate from the physical body. * Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent. *

Bilocation Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, is an alleged psychic or miraculous ability wherein an individual or object is located (or appears to be located) in two distinct places at the same time. Reports of bilocational phenomena have been made i ...

— The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a

saint In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denominat ...

. * Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy. * Ergokinesis - The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction. * Levitation or ''transvection'' – The ability to float or fly by mystical means. * Materialization — The creation of objects and materials or the appearance of matter from unknown sources. *

Mediumship Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or ghost, spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship o ...

or ''channeling'' – The ability to communicate with spirits. * Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. * Prophecy (also ''prediction'', ''premonition'', or ''prognostication'') — the ability to foretell events, without using induction or deduction from known facts. * Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards. * Psychokinesis or ''telekinesis'' – The ability to influence a

physical system A physical system is a collection of physical objects. In physics, it is a portion of the physical universe chosen for analysis. Everything outside the system is known as the environment. The environment is ignored except for its effects on the ...

without physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exert

force In physics, a force is an influence that can change the motion of an object. A force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (e.g. moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described intuitively as a p ...

, control objects and move matter with one's mind. * Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind. * Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation. *

Shapeshifting In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, Magic (paranormal), sorcery, Incantation, ...

or ''transformation'' — The ability to physically transform the user's body into anything. * Thoughtography - The ability to impress an image by ‘burning’ it on a surface using one’s own mind only. * Xenoglossy — The ability of a person to suddenly learn to write and speak a foreign language without any natural means such as studying or research, but that is often rather bestowed by divine agents. *

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- The gift of being visited by high profile spiritual beings such as Mary, Jesus or Fudosama (

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) from Buddhist Traditions. * Inedia - The ability to survive without eating or drinking, multiple cases have resulted in starvation or dehydration.

Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception, or ''sixth sense'', is an ability in itself as well as comprising a set of abilities. * Clairvoyance — The ability to see things and events that are happening far away, and locate objects, places, people, using a sixth sense. *

Divination Divination (from Latin ''divinare'', 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout histor ...

– The ability to gain insight into a situation using occult lists. * Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a ''dowsing rod''. * Dream telepathy - The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams. *

Dermo-optical perception Dermo-optical perception (DOP) – also known as dermal vision, dermo-optics, eyeless sight, eyeless vision, skin vision, skin reading, finger vision, paroptic vision, para-optic perception, cutaneous perception, digital sight, and bio-introscopy � ...

- The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through one’s own skin. * Psychometry or ''psychoscopy'' – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch. * Precognition (including psychic premonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events, without using induction or deduction from known facts. * Remote viewing, ''telesthesia'' or ''remote sensing'' – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception. * Retrocognition or ''postcognition'' – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events. *

Telepathy Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W ...

– The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.

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