Self Perception

Self Perception
Caprica Six (Battlestar Galactica), like all Cylons, can alter her perceptions, projecting a forest instead the inside of a base star
Power/Ability to:	Alter one's own perception.

"The key to a good va-cay is all in the "mind."

― Jude Lizowski (6teen)

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

― Wayne Dyner

The power to alter one's own perception of reality. Sub-power of Perception Manipulation and Mindshifting. Variation of Illusion Manipulation. Technique of Personal Mastery.

Also Called

• Self-Perception Manipulation

Capabilities

The user can consciously modify their own perception of reality. This allows them to determine how they experience external and internal phenomena, overriding the natural limits of sensory interpretation and subjective awareness. Through direct control of perception, the user can define what they see, hear, feel, or think, making their experience of reality entirely self-regulated.

With their perception altered users can also modify their interactions in reality by enhancing their perceptions. They can create, enhance their perception by altering how they view the world around themselves by focusing their perception of time, create personal interfaces and many other forms of altered perceptions that grants them different means to interact with their world in different way then most people.

By altering perception, the user can create and enter simulated alternate realities within their minds that function as alternate worlds parallel to a lucid dream. Within these controlled realities, the user can construct settings, events, and identities with perfect stability and full awareness, choosing to experience them as real or imagined at will. They can move between these self-created states and external reality without confusion or loss of continuity.

The user can regulate emotional and cognitive function, suppress or amplify emotional impact, reduce psychological pain, eliminate trauma, or enhance sensations of joy, satisfaction, and motivation. Negative experiences can be reinterpreted or neutralized, while positive experiences can be intensified and extended, allowing the user to maintain a constant optimized mental state.

With Self-Perception gives the user absolute control over their subjective experience. They can ignore external discomforts, bypass fear, pain, or anxiety, and maintain full mental stability under any condition. Their dream/mindscape becomes self-defined, unaffected by external influence unless they choose to acknowledge it.

Applications

• Accelerated Perception
• Dreamscape
• Illusion Manipulation (self only)
  • Induce any kind of experience.
  • Create entire worlds for oneself.
  • Greatly improve one's quality of life.
• Mind Palace
  • Mind Summoning (limited)
• Personal Psychology
• Simulation Creation
• Time Perception Manipulation (self only)
• Video Game Hallucinations

Techniques

• True-Self Recognition/Deception

Associations

• Absolute Illusion
  • Perception Manipulation
• Hypnagogia Inducement
• Illusion Physiology
• Mindshifting
• Personal Mastery
  • Personal Illusion

Limitations

• Only applies to the user.
• Users still have to take care of their real life to prevent degeneration and death.
• Excessive use may blur the line between reality and inducement, leading to insanity.

Known Users

• Humanoid Cylons (Battlestar Galactica)
• Bill Potts (Doctor Who); after being converted into a Cyberman
• Little Cato (Final Space)
• Kodaka Hasegawa (Haganai); via Rika's Time Machine
• Senua (Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice); via Psychosis
• Mister Marvel (Marvel Comics)
• Haruhiko Ichijō (Myriad Colors Phantom World)
• Yuki Takeya (School-Live!); originally
• Chisaki Miyazaki (Yuragi-Sou no Yuuna-san); after being hypnotized by Harumu