Psychic Abilities Writing Prompts

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Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa.

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You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries"

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Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.

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Since birth you have had telekinesis, one night you try and turn off the light and nothing happens, then a hidden voice goes “whoops boss that’s my bad, wasn’t paying attention” and the light switch flicks off

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A close friend of yours can read minds. It was their dream to work for the FBI or CIA to catch bad guys. You accompanied them to their first interview, but instead they walk straight back out. They whisper to you to walk calmly out to the car and not to say a word or make eye contact, act calm.

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After a severe head injury as a child, you grew up without the ability to speak. One day, whilst waiting in line at the supermarket, you crack a particularly excellent joke in your head, and the person behind you in line can’t stop laughing.

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One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch

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You are always early. Early for meetings and parties. Early to sleep and wake. Recently though, you have been early in new ways. You celebrate goals 10 seconds early, answer questions before they're asked and even react to news before it's broken.

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When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room.

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You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence.

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You're a struggling comedian who's on his last penny, when your childhood friend tells you he's got you a job, he works for MI5. You're informed there are mind readers roaming London stealing credit card info, it's your job to think of jokes while he keeps an eye out for anyone laughing.

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"There are three rules for mind-readers..." The man speaks sternly. "Don't read loved ones, don't reveal your powers, and NEVER try to read animals." He shivers a bit. "You probably think that last part is a joke but trust me; one glimpse into a horse and you won't be right for a week."

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You've always had the gift; touching the dead you live their last moments through their eyes. As a paleontologist, it helped you recreate scenes from by-gone eras in astonishing detail. However, this time, you wish you hadn't touched the fossil.

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You’re a mind reader, but your whole life everything has sounded like gibberish because of how random people’s misconstrued thoughts are, until one day all the voices shut off and you hear one very clearly say “run”

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A mindreader accidentally read the mind of an incomprehensible being whose thoughts and mind are rumored to lead mortals into insanity, and finds that this is actually not the case by a longshot.

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They say twins sometimes know what each other is thinking, but Rose and Lily discovered years ago that they can feel what each other feel. Things get awkward when Rose finds a boyfriend, and Lily keeps finding herself in the worst places when they decide to have sex.

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"So you cum whenever someone tells you to?"/ "Yes."/ "No matter who it is, even when you're not touching yourself or anyting?"/ "Yes!"/ "Even if I were to tell you to right now, you'd have an orgasm!?"/ "Yes!!! I would."/ "Cum."

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You and your twin have a psychic link. The two of you can perceive the other’s imagination. As kids it was awesome since you two could simulate adventures and battles. As adults you can’t stop thinking about sex and the other is always aware of what you’re into which is a lot now.

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Although he was pretty much a reformed supervillain, his relationship with one particular heroine was still rather illicit. She *wanted* him to use his mental powers on her sexually. She genuinely loved it, because it just felt *so damn good*...

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Dating a telepath has had its quirks. You cruised through the first phase of your relationship, arguments end in a flash, but most strange of all is how they know you are aroused before you even do

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A young woman comes across an amulet that lets her enter and participate in the dreams of her crush, fully lucid. Turns out her crush has desires for her as well. Kinky desires.

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You and your friend have crushes on each other, and both of you tend to have wet dreams while you sleep. But after talking one day, you start realizing that your dreams are very very similar...

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She works as a fortune teller. Looking into people’s future, and giving advice to those who need it. One day when looking into a clients future she sees herself... getting fucked into a moaning, incoherent mess by her client. Embarrassment takes over, leading to a self fulfilling prophecy.

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You discover one day that you have had a subtle ability your whole life where the more you think about someone doing something sexual, the more that person is likely to do it. You decide to go test this out in its fully capacity.

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A person hires a psychic to communicate with the dead. However, it is revealed he is just excited he has terminal cancer and wanted to inform his dead ex wife he is joining her soon and to get ready. His ex wife is less then amused at this news.

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She tried an experiment to read her friends mind, and it didn't seem to work. Now though, she can feel it whenever he fantasizes about her, and with his secret crush, he's been fantasizing about her a lot! She'd tell him, if she wasn't starting to feel addicted to how good the fantasies feel...

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A powerful psychic is convinced their "talents" are normal, because everyone in their family can do it too.

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You’ve never had an awkward conversation. Even useless small talk extends into meaningful conversation if you want it to. You thought you were just really good at holding conversation, until…

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A Polaroid camera seems to take pictures not of the present, but of the future, and everything it shows seems to come true. Everything it shows is also incredibly lewd...

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Her psychic BFF had two mischievous habits: covertly reading her secret desires, and psychically nudging her to act them out!

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