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Interestingly, [[Engin]], a [[Time Lord]], declared precognition "impossible" after the [[Fourth Doctor]] told him of his precognitive vision of the assassination of the [[Lord President]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'') This may, however, be related to statements saying that [[time travel]] into [[Gallifrey|Gallifrey's]] future was forbidden or blocked, and a similar block may also have applied to the use of precognitive powers regarding future events on Gallifrey.

As with other "paranormal" phenomena, the presence of a [[time fissure]] could enable [[human]]s to develop precognitive powers. The [[Fourth Doctor]] attributed the special powers possessed by [[Martha Tyler|Ma Tyler]] (respected by locals as a [[witch]]) to the fact that she had always lived near such a time fissure. ([[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'')

One half of the [[quantum transducer]] enabled users to see the future, the other half relaying visions of past events. ([[TW]]: ''[[Ghost Machine]]'')

* [[Cassandra (The Myth Makers)|Cassandra]] foresaw the defeat of [[Troy]] in a [[dream]], but could not get anyone to believe her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Myth Makers]]'')

* Though the matter has some ambiguity attached to it, the [[Second Doctor]] seemed to have precognitive foreknowledge of what he would encounter in the [[Land of Fiction]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'')

* [[Leela]] had an apparent precognitive dream of the [[Fendahl]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'')

* [[Gwen Cooper]] had a precognitive vision of the stabbing death of her boyfriend, [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]]. She managed to prevent the event in the location in which she saw his death as having occurred, but could not prevent his death from happening elsewhere. ([[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]'')

* The [[soothsayer]]s of [[Pompeii]], due to their minds being opened up to have psychic powers and the explosion of Vesuvius opening a rift in time for a second which ecohed back through time, developed precognitive powers and everything they predicted came true, including the return of [[Rose Tyler]] and the [[Time Beetle]] on [[Donna Noble]]'s back. This power disappeared after the volcano erupted as shown with [[Evelina]] who could no longer see the future as the [[Pyrovile]]s were dead and the rift had passed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')

* The [[Ood]], who possesed telepathic abilities showed some precognition with [[Ood Sigma]] predicting that the Doctor's song was ending (refering to his impending [[regeneration]] into the [[Eleventh Doctor]]) and later when time was bleeding, they were able to predict the return of the Master, Gallifrey, the Time Lords and that [[Joshua Naismith]] was important to what was going on ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood]],'' ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')

* [[Carmen (Planet of the Dead)|Carmen]], who possessed psychic abilities, predicted the Doctor's coming death telling him that "it (Gallifrey) is returning" and that "he (Wilfred Mott) will knock four times." ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead]]'')

* The people of [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] were a time-sensitive race and were able to read timelines (ie. seeing the past and reading the future). However, they were all but exterminated in the [[Last Great Time War]] . ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]])''