This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities are also known as extrasensory perception or sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
- Apportation – Materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.
- Aura reading – Perception of energy fields surrounding people, places and things.
- Automatic writing – Writing produced without conscious thought.
- Astral projection or mental projection – An out-of-body experience in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body.
- Bilocation or multilocation – Being in multiple places at the same time.
- Clairvoyance or second sight – Perception outside the known human senses.
- Death-warning – A vision of a living person prior to their death.
- Divination – Gaining insight into a situation, most commonly through a ritual.
- Dowsing – Ability to locate objects, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.
- Energy medicine – Healing by channeling a form of energy.
- Empathy – The ability to feel others' emotional or physical feelings.
- Faith healing – Diagnosing or curing diseases using religious devotion.
- Levitation – Bodily levitation and flying.
- Hydrokinesis – Manipulation of water.
- Mediumship or channeling – Communicating with spirits.
- Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams – Perception of events before they happen.
- Psychic surgery – Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.
- Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by the power of thought.
- Psychometry or psychoscopy – Obtaining information about a person or object, usually by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object.
- Pyrokinesis – Manipulation of fire.
- Remote viewing – Gathering of information at a distance.
- Retrocognition or post-cognition – Perception of past events.
- Scrying – Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.
- Telepathy – Transfer of thoughts, words or emotions in either direction.
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