Extrasensory Perception

### Features

The psychic power to acquire information by means independent of any known senses or previous lived experience.

**Extra-Sensory Perception**, commonly shortened to **ESP**, is a psychic-based supernatural ability; it is basically a hub for most psychic-based powers such as clairvoyance. Gabriel Valack seemingly possessed this power after performing trephination on himself in order to expose his third eye, and he was also able to alter the perceptions of others by effectively using Illusion Casting as a subsection of his ESP. Valack was also able to see certain events happening in real time, even if he wasn't physically present to see it with his regular eyes.

When Dr. Valack performed trephination on Lydia Martin, her Banshee abilities were temporarily heightened to such a powerful degree that she could have full sensory visions of whatever information she was seeking, though they did have to have at least be slightly connected to death. However, the strength of her power was actually very painful to her due to the fact that she heard the screams of every dying person in the world all at once, which caused her to Banshee wail multiple times; these wails shattered windows, cracked mirrors, crumbling walls, and even burst one of Stiles Stilinski's eardrums, as well as shattering half of Valack's skull. This heightened power was actually slowly killing Lydia and the hole in her skull had to plugged with a poultice made of mistletoe in order to prevent her death and the deaths of anyone within earshot of her own dying scream.

In addition to some Banshees possessing this power, Hellhounds also had a more limited form of extrasensory perception as well, allowing them to experience visions of events that were happening in near-real-time. However, these visions were more like dreams than an actual play-by-play of a current event; for example, Jordan Parrish, possessed by the Hellhound Cerberus, had a vision of himself and the Banshee Lydia making out in a shower, which is when he realized that she had been injured and was currently located in the Beacon Hills Preserve.

## Applications and Uses of Extrasensory Perception

* **Clairvoyance:** Lydia Martin was able to see a vision of Theo Raeken and his Chimera Pack invading Eichen House to come capture her as it was happening, despite the fact that she was not physically anywhere near them at the time; this occurred while Lydia's powers were enhanced by trephination. *("The Last Chimera")*, *("Amplification")* Lydia also had a vision of Malia Tate about to be killed by her mother, the Desert Wolf, although, like a Hellhound's use of clairvoyance, this was more like a waking dream than an actual vision, as it showed Malia being cornered in the coyote den in the Beacon Hills Preserve, when in reality she was being threatened by her mother at Fort Jewett. *("The Sword and the Spirit")* Gabriel Valack was able to see Allison Argent, Scott McCall, and Stiles Stilinski perform the surrogate sacrifice ritual in order to locate the Nemeton (and, by extension, their parents), which gave power to the Nemeton and turned it into a literal beacon for supernatural creatures (and pseudo-supernatural beings such as the Dread Doctors) again. *("Alpha Pact")*, *("A Novel Approach")* Jordan Parrish had a vision that indicated that Lydia was currently injured and in danger, though it was more like a waking dream than an actual vision; in it, the two were making out in the shower, but the floor of the shower had dried leaves and mud to indicate that Lydia was in the nature preserve, and her fingernails had been scratched off due to her trying to write a message into a rock with her nails while in a catatonic state. *("The Last Chimera")*
* **Divination**: Banshees such as Lydia Martin, Lorraine Martin, and Meredith Walker were able to use certain forms of divination in order to gain information about a certain topic. Such methods include, but are not limited to: Automatic Writing, psychometry, and sound divination.
* **Retrocognition:** Lydia was able to use ESP to go back to the night that Theo let his sister, Tara Raeken, die through a highly realistic vision. In the vision, Lydia walked through the creek where his sister died until she finally found her, allowing her to look at the young girl's chest and find that her heart was removed. These visions were like walking through a movie, where she can pause and focus on specific things in minute detail, even despite the fact that she never experienced this event when it happened. *("The Last Chimera")*
	+ Though this happened when Lydia's powers were enhanced by trephination, her powers eventually developed to the point where she could use this power naturally, as evidenced when she had a retrocognitive astral vision of the Ghost Riders' invasion of Canaan, California in 1987 that was very similar to the aforementioned vision of Tara's death. *("Ghosted")*
* **Supernatural Perception**: The Banshee Meredith Walker was able to identify every supernatural creature in Beacon Hills so she could place them on the Deadpool hit-list. *("Perishable")* This power was so specific that she was able to update it when new supernaturals were created (such as when Scott McCall bit and turned Liam Dunbar) *("Muted")* and when others lost their powers (such as when Derek Hale temporarily lost his Werewolf powers after during his evolution into an Evolved Werewolf). *("Perishable")* Lydia eventually developed this power as well, which was evidenced when she produced a list of every supernatural creature in Beacon Hills, including the high school students, to her mother Natalie Martin when she became principal of Beacon Hills High School. *("Said the Spider to the Fly")*