I'm remembering last year when Peter had his dreams about the future and I wonder if he has an ability to see the future. I hope this topic hasn't been discussed in another forum so I appologize if it has. He's had to of acquired at least his mom's abilities and possibly his dad's and Mr. Devoux (sp?). Any thoughts?

It could have been an Isaac vision without the paint and white eyes.

It could have been an Isaac vision without the paint and white eyes.
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I don't remember him knowing Isaac at the time he started having those dreams. I could be wrong though. What I'm wondering is if he does have an ability to see the future, maybe he got it from those he was around, more particularly Mr. Devoux. He seemed like a visionary man. When Peter came and talked to him, Mr. Devoux new he was there even though he was invisible. So either he could see him regardless or he knew he was coming.

Peter's power first manifested in Six Months Ago when he dreamed Nathan and Heidi's crash. I think it's all tied in with his empathic abilities - having prophetic dreams about people he cares about.

I was thinking soething along these lines but not. Peter absorbs powers, right? So who knows what people he has met, or even walked past that had abilites that aren't shown on the show. The possibilties are endless for peter because all he needs to absorb abilities is to be near people. Which made me think that surely he has been near Linderman so all he would have to heal Nathan would be to channel it.

But if Peter had been able to absorb abilities all his life he would have discovered he could fly, and he would have absorbed his parents' powers. Unless his mother has some sort of Haitianesque power and suppressed her sons' abilities until they were adults?

I don't think Peter's prophetic dreams come from anyone else. I think they're part of his empathic abilities, and were the first sign of manifestation.

I'm not disagreeing, was a theory of mine only which is..
Peter may have absorb abilities before but only realised that he can use them after the dream about Nathans car crash and when the show starts he knows that his dreams may be "visions" of what will happen, i.e. most people dream of flying but don't belive they can actually fly which to back up what I said before, he may have walked past someone and not knowingly absorb their power for prophetic dreams.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that both Peter and Nathan's powers manifested at the same time, straight after their father died. Maybe it was Mr Petrelli's power that kept theirs in check?

I'm not so sure that Nathan figured it out at the same time. Maybe I'm mistaken but it seemed as though Nathan already knew he could fly. Nathan, in my opinion, has a lot more history with this ability stuff than Peter and knew enough that he was trying to steer him away from figuring things out himself. I wonder how much he knew about his father's death or if it was a secret kept from him as well.

I don't think that if he has an prophetic ability that allows him to have visions that it came from some joe schmoe that he happened to walk by on the street. I would guess that the writers would want they linked to someone we know or is related to one of the characters than just someone out of the blue. But that's just my thought.

One other thought. I seem to remember that the founders knew about the bomb which would imply that someone has that visionary. Again, I'm just guessing but Mr. Devoux in my mind seems to be a likely person for that. When I first saw that scene of him on the balcony and Peter was invisible and he knew he was there or could see him, I figured he had an ability to see invisible people but maybe it was because he saw this in a vision and knew it was going to happen and therefore was ready for it and made it seem as though he saw him.

My understanding was that in Six Months Ago Nathan accidentally flew as his and Heidi's car was about to crash, and Peter dreamed exactly what had happened. Thus their powers manifested pretty much at the same time. Nathan had (or said he had) no recollection of how he had survived and been thrown clear. Surely if he had known he could fly he would have rescused Heidi as well?

It would seem that their powers manifested prior to their Dad's death and roughly around the same time. For, Peter saw in his dream (his power manifested) Nathan's flight at the time of his and Heidi's vehicular assault (Nathan's power manifested).

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I had never looked at that incident that way but haven't put a lot of thought into it either. My impression when I saw that scene when he flew away from the accident wasn't that he flew unexpectedly but as a last resort. I thought he flew on purpose and always felt guilty for not saving his wife. But I think I would agree that it was the first time he ever flew and since he was running an ad campain, he was trying to keep Peter from making a big deal out of things so it wouln't ruin he chances of winning.

Surely Peters power is to absorb others. So, theory time again, Angela pettrellis power is to see the future through dreaming. The night of Peter's party is when both the brothers powers came to promenence and she was there.

Peter 'sees' the future directly through time travel and indirectly through precognition. This we know. He also seems to have astral projection. Perhaps he can experience the future through this ability as well.

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When has he demonstrated astral projection?