Enhanced Senses

"This is the best damn thing that ever happened to me. Well, now that I've learned to control it, I'm like Superman or something. I can hear rain coming from forty miles away. I can even hear someone's moods, the tiniest changes in a heartbeat."

- Dale, Heroes

The power to possess extremely accurate senses. Sub-power of Enhanced Condition and Sense Manipulation.

Also Called

 * Advanced Senses
 * Heightened Senses
 * Hyper-Senses
 * Increased Perceptions
 * Strengthened Senses

Capabilities
The user has extremely accurate senses, allowing them to see, hear, smell, taste, touch and/or feel more than an average member of their species.

Applications

 * Enhanced Synesthesia: Perceive multiple different sensory or cognitive responses at once.
 * Illusion Awareness: Many illusion will affect only certain senses but lack in others, for example an illusion might lack a smell or have no heartbeat.
 * Sense Focusing: Focus senses to look for a particular sight/sound/smell/taste/feel and blocking out all others.

Variations
The Five Senses:
 * Enhanced Hearing: Ears pick up every single sound, and can decipher layer upon layer of noise; has the ability to pick up a conversation from a mile away in a busy city. May even mutate into Echolocation.
 * Enhanced Smell: Users can detect specific smells, and locate their origin. Some may even be able to tell if someone is lying by which hormones they excrete.
 * Enhanced Taste: Users may be able to detect poisons or other problems. (Usually accompanies enhanced smell)
 * Enhanced Touch: Some can feel so acutely that to rub the users hand on a paper would be like reading the page, sensing every bump ripple or wave. Some may even be able to tell of distant occurrences felt through vibrations in the earth.
 * Enhanced Vision: Can see with amazing clarity/detail, distance, or color, perhaps even in a different spectrum of light or into other dimensions.

Other Senses:
 * Accelerated Perception: Slow down the user's perception of time.
 * Electroreception: Can detect and follow electricity and related phenomenon.
 * Energy Detection: Sense all forms of energy.
 * Enhanced Awareness: All senses are attuned to nearby activity.
 * Enhanced Balance: Sense of equilibrium and ability to use it well.
 * Extrasensory Perception: Also known as the "Sixth Sense", users of this rare ability can feel changes without knowing how or why, often reaching into Clairvoyance, Danger Intuition, Precognition, Psychic Navigation and/or Mediumship.
 * Infrared Perception: Can sense infrared/temperature.

Levels

 * Peak Human Senses
 * Enhanced Senses: Users senses are extremely accurate.
 * Supernatural Senses: Users senses are supernaturally acute.
 * Absolute Senses: Users senses are enhanced to universal scale.

Associations

 * Compass Sense
 * Detection
 * Empathy Users' senses can be used to detect emotions such as fear.
 * Energy Detection
 * Enhanced Agility
 * Enhanced Condition
 * Enhanced Tracking
 * Instinctive Relative Sense
 * Nerve Manipulation
 * Omni-Senses
 * Pattern Sense
 * Protected Senses to keep senses from being overloaded.
 * Sense Manipulation
 * Speed Perception
 * Supernatural Senses

Limitations

 * Overloading may be a frequent occurrence.
 * Magic may cause interference.
 * Drugs or other means can negate or remove these senses unless they are reversible.

Known Users
See Also Super Senses.