# List of psychic abilities

This is a list of psychic abilities attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations of extrasensory perception or the sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

## Psychic abilities

* Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one's consciousness is felt to separate from the physical body temporarily.
* Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
* Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.
* Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint.
* Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
* Curse – Any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.
* Energy medicine – The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.
* Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.
* Electrokinesis - The ability to control all form of electricity.
* Aerokinesis - The ability to control air and wind.
* Photokinesis - The ability to control lights.
* Geokinesis - The ability to control all form of earthly materials.
* Chlorokinesis - The ability to mentally and/or physically summon, control and manipulate plants and vegetation.
* Umbrakinesis - The ability to shape, create, and control shadows and darkness.
* Hydrokinesis – The ability to control water with one's mind.
* Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation.
* Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind.
* Inedia – The purported ability to survive without eating or drinking.
* Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible.
* Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.
* Materialization — The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources.
* Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.
* Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind.
* Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye.
* Phytokinesis — The ability to control plants with one's mind.
* 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" disruption that heals immediately afterward.
* Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
* Psychic hold – The ability to throw an electric current like a rope.
* Shapeshifting or transformation — The ability to physically transform the user's body into anything.
* Telekinesis or Psychokinesis – The ability to influence a physical system without physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exert force, control objects and move matter with one's mind.
* Teleportation – The ability is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
* Thoughtography – The ability to impress an image by 'burning' it on a surface using one's mind only.
* Time travel – The ability to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or the future.
* Witnessing – The gift of being visited by high-profile spiritual beings such as Mary, Jesus or Fudosama (Acala).
* 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.

### Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.
* Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense.
* Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.
* Dermo-optical perception – The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin.
* Dream telepathy – The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams.
* Precognition (including psychic premonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.
* Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.
* 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 – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.