If you had mental powers, what would they be?

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I've been playing a lot of Psychonauts recently and it got me thinking about what kind of mental powers I'd like to have.

Telekinesis is a must have.
The ability to temporarily slow down or even stop time.
Invisibility.
Levitation.
Psi-blast (shoot lasers from your mind).
Mind reading.
Impenetrable mental defense to make my own mind unreadable.
Psychic shield (provides temporary defense against attacks).
Confusion.

And here's one I personally came up with: The ability to emit ear piercingly painful sound waves.

I would have the ability to force people in power, such as parents, teachers, politicians, etc., to feel the emotions of the people they are caring for so that way they'd be more understanding. Then maybe if I had that power I could make this dump called planet Earth a bit better place to live.

To be invisible.

That's all I've ever wanted.

Of all the possibilities mentioned, I think teleporting and making other people feel empathy would be nice. I definitely would not want anything like a weapon, like mind lasers. I've never really thought about any of this because of course none of it is actually possible.

Telepathy, of course!

• Shield Mind: Prevent others from detecting or making contact with your mind, as if you were absent. Also prevents your mind from affecting others -- it's a two-way shield.

• Sense Mind: Detect the presence of thinking organisms.  The more complex the thought processes, the easier the detection. Specific minds can be located.

• Mental Beacon: Ability to deliberately signal your presence to other telepathic minds.  No information other than your existence is transmitted.

• Read Surface Thoughts: Ability to eaves-drop on another mind's conscious thoughts without being detected, even by another telepath.

• Suggestion: Works best on simpler minds; "We are not the boys you've been looking for ... we are free to go ..."

• Mind Cloud: A form of invisibility, in that the target minds simply do not register your presence, but only as long as you pose no threat or cause any harm (Walk unnoticed through a guarded checkpoint, but not if brandishing a weapon or assaulting a guard). Does not work against electronic or mechanical sensors.

• Duplex Telepathy: Two-way communication, easiest with another un-shielded telepathic mind.

• Assault: Stuns the target, rendering them unconscious.

• Probe: A more subtle method of mental assault, used to discover the target's memories. The target may be traumatized by the recovered memories, as if suffering from intense PTSD.

• Mind Alteration: Alter or erase the memories and thought processes of a target. Skilled telepaths can create entirely new personalities in the target's mind, create a copy of the telepath's mind in the target, or 'program' the target to perform specific actions under certain trigger conditions.

Omniscience and any mental ability that would protect the environment, indigenous tribes and nature from corrupted politicians and greedy people in general.

I would like to have all the powers of Professor X from the X-Men

I also would love to have the powers of this lady: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Grace_La ... (Earth-616) I just love Grace and it's a pity she appeared in just one issue of the comic book. If I could do it, I would move into my portal forever. Living there with all my books would be much, much better than living in our ordinary world

And here comes the thread containing all my X-Men mutant characters: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=91003 Some of those have very interesting mental powers.

This thread is making me want to reread the Heralds of Valdemar series. Also, dang it, I forgot about teleportation. I'd love to have that, as they don't let blind people drive.

With my luck I'd suffer from horrible migraines and nosebleeds.

Although I would like to have teleportation so I could go where ever I wanted without a vehicle.

Although with my luck I would probably feel as tired as I would be if I had actually walked that distance, so teleporting myself to really long distances could end up killing me.

At minimum?
Maybe the power to make someone have perfect executive function (have their intent and actions match within the upper limits of their physical, mental and emotional capacity including but not limited to solving their mental health issues and emotional hung ups, have a way easier time with learning disabilities or/and enhance learning processes, ability to unlearn anything useless, detrimental or unnecessary at the drop of the hat whenever and however they want to, access to all that potential and sound judgment within their current but increasing knowledge, intelligence, experience at the fullest extent, etc.) or severe executive dysfunction (make their experience, intelligence, abilities rendered basically useless, have them on a constant state of dysregulation that affects their mind and emotions, their mindsets and attitude, their memory and thought processes, their inhibitions and self control, prone to create more traumas, addictions, and develop worse mental illness, living filled with mistakes, missing details, bad decisions, overwhelm, etc. maybe curse them with bad luck on top of that).


Else;

A dial or a scale of anything in everything.
I can make something more or less of whatever function or attributes it's already there or is subject under.

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Teleportation~ Me & my girlfriend cant drive & bus service is kinda limited & recently started charging again.

Jedi mind-trick~ It would make it easier to deal with difficult people like customer service reps & professionals who get things confused or wrong.