Mental Manipulation

The power to **manipulate thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions of others**. Not to be confused with Brain Manipulation.

## Also Called

* Cerebral Control/Manipulation
* Cerebrokinesis
* Higher Cognitive Control/Manipulation
* Mental Alteration/Control
* Mentokinesis
* Mind Alteration/Control/Manipulation
* Mind Trick (*Star Wars*)
* Telepathic Manipulation

## Capabilities

The user can manipulate, modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions, allowing the ability to render others unconscious, suppress their memories, and negate the use of abilities, increase/decrease mental capacity, modify minds to be agreeable, control minds, sway sensations to induce altered perception, bestow/heal mental disorders, create/penetrate mental barriers, etc.

## Applications

* Addiction Manipulation
* Anima Manipulation
* ASMR Manipulation
* Attention Manipulation
* Behavior Manipulation
* Characteristic Removal
* Communication Shift
* Comprehension Manipulation
	+ Information Transferal
* Confidence Manipulation
* Confusion Manipulation
* Consciousness Grounding
* Consciousness Shattering
* Consciousness State Manipulation
	+ Sleep Manipulation
		- Dream Manipulation
* Consciousness Transferal
	+ Mind Exchange
* Emotion Manipulation
* Fatigue Manipulation (mental only)
* Function Scramble
* Hypnosis
	+ Command Inducement
	+ Persuasion
	+ Remote Hypnosis
* Hypnosis Manipulation
* Illusion Manipulation
	+ Illusion Generation
	+ Mental Hallucination
* Imagination Manipulation
* Instinct Manipulation
	+ Instinct Inducement
* Madness Manipulation
* Maturity Manipulation
* Memory Manipulation
* Mental Assimilation
* Mental Attacks
* Mental Disorder Manipulation
* Mental Healing
* Mental Inducement
* Mental Nullification
* Mental Pressure
* Mental Reset
* Mental Restoration
* Mind Combat
* Mind Control
	+ Convinced Inevitability
* Mind Creation
* Mind Reading
* Neurocognitive Deficit
* Neuro-Psychic Knowledge
* Pain Manipulation
* Persona Manipulation
* Personality Absorption
* Personality Splitting
* Power Augmentation
* Power Negation
* Primal Imprint
* Psyche Manipulation
* Psychic Shield
* Pushing
* Selection Manipulation
* Sexual Orientation Manipulation
* Social Interplay Manipulation
* Stress Manipulation
* Subconscious Manipulation
	+ Subliminal Messaging
		- Subliminal Seduction
* Thought Manipulation
* Willpower Manipulation

## Techniques

* **Peak Human/Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Mind**: To greatly increase one's mind capabilities to varying levels.
* **Astral Suggestion**: To mentally influence others through Astral Projection.
* **Bioacoustic Disruption** or *Bio-Acoustic Disruption*: To cause a subject's brain to falter in communication, causing an interruption in speech and hearing.
* **Confusion Inducement**: To cause confusion.
* **Conscious Mind Suppression**: To suppress one's conscious mind.
* **Distraction**: To disrupt the attention span.
* **Faculty Diminution**: To suppress mental access to one's skills.
* **Knowledge Projection**: To project knowledge into another mind.
* **Lie Inducement**: To nullify the utterance of truth.
* **Logorrhea**: To force others to keep speaking.
* **Mental Entity Physiology**: Turn oneself into mental energy.
* **Mental Breakdown:** To cause psychological breakdowns and mental collapse.
* **Mental Release:** To release/remove mental attributes.
* **Mental Scramble:** To scramble someone's mind.
* **Mind Absorption:** To absorb someone's mind.
* **Mind Imprisonment**: To imprison the users in their minds.
* **Mind Summoning**: To summon anything from the mind.
* **Misdirection**: To disorient others' sense of direction.
* **Motor Continuity**: To shut down motor function control so that a subject keeps moving.
* **Palindromic Action Inducing**: To make others act backward.
* **Personality Manipulation**: To partially/completely change the personality.
* **Psychic Bestowal**: To magnify a subject’s knowledge capacity.
* **Psychic Photography**: To imprint marks, images or writing onto the minds of others.
* **Psychic Sealing**: To seal secrets within others.
* **Stupefaction**: To induce a mental stupor in others.

## Variations

* Comfort Manipulation
* Experience Mimicry
* Mental Projection
* Talent Manipulation

## Associations

* Brain Manipulation
* Extrasensory Perception
* Form Manipulation
* Ideal Manipulation
* Intelligence Manipulation
* Knowledge Manipulation
* Mental Regeneration
* Mindshifting
* Neural Impulse Manipulation
* Telepathy
* Unrestricted Thought Process
* Vocal Reality Manipulation

## Limitations

* Does not work on mindless beings (corpses, animated objects, robots, etc.).
* Users of Mental/Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
* May be limited to a certain range to work, including touch only.
* May be limited to a certain number of targets at a time.
* May not work with users of Brainlessness or Formless Mind.