Precognition Precognition was the ability to perceive events which had not yet happened , sometimes in prophecies . Interestingly , Engin , a Time Lord , declared precognition " impossible " after the Fourth Doctor told him of his precognitive vision of the assassination of the Lord President . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) As with other " paranormal " phenomena , the presence of a time fissure could enable human s to develop precognitive powers . The Fourth Doctor attributed the special powers possessed by Ma Tyler ( respected by locals as a witch ) to the fact that she had always lived near such a time fissure . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) One half of the quantum transducer enabled users to see the future , the other half relaying visions of past events . ( TV : " Ghost Machine " ) Other instances . Cassandra foresaw the defeat of Troy in a dream , but could not get anyone to believe her . ( TV : " The Myth Makers " ) Though the matter had some ambiguity attached to it , the Second Doctor seemed to have precognitive foreknowledge of what he would encounter in the Land of Fiction . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " ) Leela had an apparent precognitive dream of the Fendahl . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) Gwen Cooper had a precognitive vision of the stabbing death of her boyfriend , Rhys . She managed to prevent the event in the location in which she saw his death as having occurred , but could not prevent his death from happening elsewhere . ( TV : " End of Days " ) The soothsayer s of Pompeii , due to their minds being opened up to have psychic powers and the explosion of Vesuvius opening a rift in time for a second which echoed back through time , developed precognitive powers ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) and everything they predicted came true , including the return of Rose Tyler and the Time Beetle on Donna Noble ' s back . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) This power disappeared after the volcano erupted — Evelina could no longer see the future as the Pyrovile s were dead and the rift had passed . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) The Ood , who possessed telepathic abilities , showed some precognition , with Ood Sigma predicting that the Doctor ' s song was ending ( referring to his impending regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor ) and later , when time was bleeding , they were able to predict the return of the Master , Gallifrey , the Time Lords and that Joshua Naismith was important to what was going on . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " , " The End of Time " ) Carmen , who possessed psychic abilities , predicted the Doctor ' s coming death telling him that " it ( Gallifrey ) is returning " and that " he ( Wilfred Mott ) will knock four times . " ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) The people of Eve were a time - sensitive race and were able to read timelines ( i . e . seeing the past and reading the future ) . However , they were all but exterminated in the Last Great Time War . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic ) " The Seeker on the planet Ribos was a clairvoyant , able to foresee her own death and the death of some people in her company . The source of her power was not clear . ( TV : " The Ribos Operation " ) Some Basprali women possessed the gift of future insight and guided Basprali society as the Seers ' Union . ( PROSE : " The Inquisitor ' s Story " )