Precognition: Difference between revisions

'''Precognition''' involves the perception of events which have yet to happen.

Interestingly, [[Engin]], a [[Time Lord]] declared precognition "impossible" after [[Fourth Doctor|the 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 is forbidden or blocked, and a similar block may also apply to the use of precognitive powers regarding future events on Gallifrey.

As with other "paranormal" phenomena, the presence of a [[time fissure]] can enable [[Human]]s to develop precognitive powers. [[Fourth Doctor|The 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]]'')

Other instances==

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

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

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[[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]]'')

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