List of psychic abilities

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.
• Faith healing - Diagnosing or curing diseases using religious devotion.
• Levitation - Bodily levitation and flying.
• 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.