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According to the Movie PUSH, there are certain categories of Psychics. Some are more believable than others.

Watchers can "See the future, even though its not as simple as it may sound."
Movers. Basically, its just another way of saying Telekinetic...people who can move things with their minds.
Pushers have the ability to push their way into other people's minds, and make them believe whatever they choose.
Bleeders able to emit psychic frequency "Screeches" which can errupt blood vessels causing victims to bleed.
Sniffs: people who can determine the current or past situation of a person by the smelling and/or touching an object once owned by the desired subject.
Stitches: someone who can, through tactile contact, control the nervous system of another, sometimes allowing the person to heal, or to cripple them.
Shadows: Have the ability to "Shade" people or objects from the prying minds of other psychics such as sniffs.
Wipers: can wipe memories from the mind of another person.

Now for the one they left out:

Probes. This is me. We are the sensors. The feelers. The Detectors. The official terminology is Empaths.

I am an empath, and this is my story.



I can sense other people’s emotions.
Basically…if you were to think of someone who is Telepathic, you would think of someone who can read another person’s mind, and if trained and powerful enough, can, in fact, control said person’s mind.
An Empath is similar, but on a much more primal level. Based on Emotions and instincts.
For example: before entering a room, I already know how many people are inside, and what each one of them is feeling because I can sense them.
…not just sense, but read in every detail. You see, emotions are a lot more complex than just love, hate, fear, joy, and so on. Love can have many different levels, and by reading the specifics of the level, one can begin to understand the specifics of their thoughts.
For an example, lets look at love. There are many variations of love. There’s familial love, like the kind you experience with siblings. There’s Parental, like the kind of love you feel towards your parents or children. Romantic, well…that’s self-explanatory. There’s comradic love…the love of comrades, friends. Patriotic love…for one’s country, town, or even circle of friends…
…you get my point.
Anyways, this level of detail allows me, as I said, to know more about a person’s thoughts. For example, someone who is feeling depressed, if looked at deeper, is feeling depressed because he is feeling lonely. He is feeling lonely, because he is feeling the overwhelming emotion of romantic love. This combination thus makes him feel distracted and also frustrated. It’s simple mathematics, really. So, by deduction, I know that this man is missing his wife or girlfriend very very much. He obviously would rather be with her than in his current circumstance.
It kinda almost sounds like I'm reading his mind…a lot like telepathy.
That is technically not the case.
Through practice and focus, a skilled Empath can quickly and decisively figure out what is going on in a subject’s mind by deducing and calculating the clues given to him by that subject’s emotion.
It can actually be overwhelming sometimes, and it can control an untrained Empath quite easily.
Let’s look at a sports arena for a perfect example. An Empath goes to a hockey game. The team is winning and in the end wins. 30,000 people (or the majority of) are feeling ecstatic and celebratory. They’re cheering, hooting, hollering and it’s a pure blast of joy and ecstasy. The Empath also will feel this, to an overwhelming degree.
One might debate that the supposed empath is really just succumbing to what is commonly known as the Mob Effect.
So then, lets take the sport out of the equation. Lets just take 30,000 people, have them all stand in a stadium. Motionless, silent. But every single one of them deep inside is screaming for joy.
The Empath walks into the stadium, and like a Tsunami washes away a small town, he or she is swept away by the feeling of incredible joy, to the point where it is literally overwhelming and they lose control.”
He would not be able to focus on any one individual who would have a separate feeling. Even if they were standing right beside him, because everyone else is too loud.
Actually…sound. That’s a good analogy. Go to a concert where the music is blaring, the crowd cheering and someone beside you trying to talk in a normal voice…no hope in all hell would you be able to listen to them, the surroundings are just too noisy.
Group-emotion is the same way, and often enough the empathy with be so saturated by that emotion that they themselves will feel it whether they want to or not. In the scenario just discussed, it’s not a bad thing. But put that same Empath in a room full of Psycho-killers…
It becomes a sub-conscious thing. Sometimes to the point where even our very dreams are influenced by the feelings we sense around us.
But a trained Empath would be able to drown out those feelings and focus on a single "Target" and determine their feelings and to some degree, their thoughts.