Precognition

**Category:** | Passive PowerSupportive Power

**Precognition** is the ability to perceive future events before they actually happen. Opposite power of Retrocognition. It is one of the three branches of premonition.

It is also called premonition, foresight, prescience, future vision, future sight fortune telling.

## Description

Users have the ability to see, hear and perceive possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.

Precognitive events usually appear to individuals as a flash or spontaneous vision - when, in an awakened state, a person receives a short intense mental scenario.

Occurs most often (60 percent to 70 percent) in dreams. It may also occur spontaneously in waking visions, auditory hallucinations, flashing thoughts entering the mind, and the sense of "knowing." Precognitive knowledge also may be induced through trance, channeling, mediumship, and divination.

Usually the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours. In rare cases precognitive experiences occur months or even years before the actual event takes place. Severe emotional shock seems to be a major factor in precognition.

### **Limitations**

* May require being in a trance, asleep or unconscious to see the future.

* Foretelling may be an involuntary action happening unexpectedly.

* May only be able to see destiny, being unable to change events.

* Visions may be more similar to dreams, difficult to remember, or decipher.

* May be behave like a reverse memory, wherein the nearest futures or most important future events are the most vivid.

* May be limited by how far into the future they can see. Can cause great strain to the user's mind.

* May be uncontrollable and unpredictable.

* May only be able to see a certain aspect of the future.

* Can't see what has already happened, unless the user has Retrocognition or Chrono Vision.

## Variations of Precognition

* **Accelerated Probability** - To predict the outcome of events
* **Danger Intuition** - To see into the immediate future, user has no direct control over the power and is only triggered when there is immediate danger.
* **Death Sense** - To detect who was going to die and when their death will occur, but may not be able to prevent their death.
* **Destiny Perception** - To perceive destiny/fate.
* **Divination** - Gain insight of future events by the use of occult ritual.
* **Empathic Precognition** - To receive precognitive flashes of the future when exposed to extreme emotion.
* **Flash Precognition** - To see things seconds or minutes before they happen.
* **Numerology** - To predict the future and as well as influence it with the use of mathematics, user can read the future with numbers.
* **Precognitive Artistry** - To paint, draw, or sketch the future subconsciously. The user can trigger the power by entering some sort of trance paint what they are "seeing" on a blank canvas/paper.
* **Precognitive Dreaming** - To perceive future in dreams, whether symbolic, direct or from the perspective of another being.
* **Premonition** (also known as *Presentiment*) - To gain information about future events that is perceived as emotion.
* **Prescience** - To have instinctive foreknowledge of future.
* **Xeno-Accelerated Probability** - The ability to predict the outcome and what choices other people could make.

## List of Users

**Original Power**

* Angels of Destiny
* Prophets
* Neena
* Melinda Warren
* Phoebe Halliwell
* Melinda Halliwell
* Bo Lightfeather
* Stan Provazolli
* Kyra
* The Seer
* The Crone

**Temporary Power**

* Matthew Tate
* Patty Halliwell
* Prue Halliwell
* Alec
* Cryto
* Dr. Curtis Williamson
* Mitzy Stillman
* Ronny
* Zankou

## Developed Powers

### **Astral Premonition**

Astral Premonition is the ability to project one's consciousness into a future or past event, either as a physical astral form, through the body of one's future-self, or through the body/ memory of a past being. This allows the user to experience a vision first-hand. This is a combination of Premonition and Astral Projection and is the closest a Charmed One has gotten to natural Time Travel. It allows her to see things in more detail and to stay within the future for a longer period of time.

## Notes

* The term is derived from the Latin præ, meaning "prior to" and congnio, meaning "to gain knowledge".
* The difference between precognition, premonition, and prophecy: premonition generally involves knowledge of a future event while premonition involves the sense or feeling that something is going to happen; whereas all prophecy is precognition, but not all precognition is prophecy.
* Precognition is similar to clairvoyance, and makes a great narrative device because it brings up ideas of fate, destiny and free will.