Powers and Abilities
In "The Second Coming", Angela reveals that she has the power of precognitive dreaming. She says that this is also the first power Peter ever overtly demonstrated. Although she can use this ability through methods such as sedation, more powerful visions can only be achieved through natural sleep. Also, it is stated that her dreams are confusing and open to interpretation, like the dreams of the heroes dying (The Butterfly Effect), although several events seem to appear as exactly as they are going to happen, like the interview with Dr. Chandra Suresh (1961). People with this power can also apparently have the same dream as when Peter copied it from her, he had the same precognitive dream that she did.
Further demonstrations of her ability have shown that it goes beyond merely seeing the future, as Peter uses it at one point to visit the past, and Angela uses it to enter Sylar's dreams.
Among other talents, Angela has demonstrated resistance to telepathy up to certain level, especially during the interrogation led by Matt Parkman (Cautionary Tales), although this can be attributed to training or by having experienced the same mental stress before, which is demonstrated in "Villains" as Arthur telepathicly convinced her Nathan must die, but requiring more effort and time than other characters. As Linderman has hinted, that was not the first time Arthur used his telepathy on her.
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