Mind Manipulation

## Summary

**Mind Manipulation** is the ability to manipulate and control the minds of others. It is associated with Telepathy and Mind Reading, and these powers are often possessed by the same characters. While basic mind manipulation can be used for psychic suggestion and simple manipulation, higher-level users of this ability can completely control others, drive them insane, plague them with illusions and hallucinations, shape what they feel and what their feelings are and even rip their minds from their bodies, others can even influence their cognitions without their acquire knowledge and understanding through experience, thought, learning and senses. High End users can even alter or control personalities entirely that includes their behaviors, cognitions and personalities, as in their entire mental individual existence.

Generally speaking, we judge the potency of Mind Manipulation both by what it can do and by how many people its user can affect at once with it. This may range from only a few people at a time to entire planetary populations.

### Typical Techniques or powers associated to this power:

* **Mind Control**: The user can basically control a person's mind in various ways.
* **Psionic Powers**: The user can channel their mental powers through technology or supernatural ways.
* **Consciousness Ideas**: The user with this power can manipulate ideas beyond what is simply emotions or sensational experiences.

## Types

Mind Manipulation has a lot of variations that it can be used:

* **Behavioral Manipulation**: The user can influence the manners of which an individual acts upon towards other individuals or to their environment,
* **Emotion Manipulation**: The ability to influence the empathic aspects of the mind such as inducing or removing what one feels or expresses such as anger, fear, joy, disgust, sadness.
* **Belief Manipulation**: The ability to influence the complex psychological ways of thinking or belief about the nature of being/existence, one of those includes Philosophies such as Axiology, Nihilism, Idealism, Realism, Existentialism, etc., another are Religions or Mythologies or Folklores. Users can make individuals feel fanatical to the point that they forgot any perception of danger or pain to follow through on beliefs.
* **Perception Manipulation**: The ability to manipulate the recognition of the world around an individual(s) that is received through their senses, such as taste, sight, hearing, touch, smell and more, can even create hallucinations.
	+ **Madness Manipulation**: The ability to influence the disorderly properties in one's mind that makes what is considered a normal standard of any individual to be deviant and unstable.
* **Memory Manipulation**: The ability to manipulate the memory within an individual(s) of past events that are retained in the mind.
* **Dream Manipulation**: The ability to manipulate the dreams within the subconscious part of the individual(s), whether they are good dreams or nightmares.
* **Imagination Manipulation**: The ability to influence the mental creativity of individuals.
* **Thought Manipulation**: The ability to influence present thoughts of oneself or individuals, controlling the things that makes decides the actions in the present moment or even their ability to process information or formulate complex thoughts and deductions.
* **Drive Manipulation**: the ability to influence what an individual strives for, such as a goal, a desire, etc..
* **Instinct Manipulation**: The ability to control one’s impulses (*Id*/*Unconscious*/*Subconscious*), the psychic action of individuals that acts on bodily conditions to achieve a form of relief or satisfaction, or automatic responses that are not in the conscious control.
* **Morality Manipulation**: The ability to control one’s ideals, values or standards to achieve perfection (*Super-Ego*/*Preconscious*), the part of the mind that rejects anything that does not meet the criteria's what is considered important and perfect.
* **Rationality Manipulation**: the ability to control one’s present or external world expression and actions to achieve realistic results of one’s mind (*Ego*/*Conscious*), where one’s comprehend and accepts the material world and understand other individuals,

## NOTES

It is important to know that there is a difference between mind and consciousness when it comes to adding new powers and such, mind is more related to physical experiences, causing various sensory reactions and emotions, consciousness is more related to abstract things such as ideas and concepts.