History Main / FaintingSeer

* [[http://thosedestined.pensandtales.com/?date=20050616 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/ThoseDestined'', right after [[TheHero Rae]] removes the collar that hid her [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]] aura.

* While Haruka of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' is a {{telepath|y}}, this is usually not a problem for her... until episode 8's {{stinger}}, when she collapsed after having a vision of a violent crime. This happens again at the end of episode 10.

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' is a rare example of the FaintingSeer as ''the main character''. OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Hitomi Kanzaki often uses tarot cards to read people's futures (and she once receives a nasty surprise when she gets phantom-attacked by the Death card). She also makes a chilling discovery later when she finds out that [[spoiler:her anxiety about the future is actually causing the worst-case scenarios she fears to come true]]. Then there's the time when she's being questioned, is asked to "show how her powers work," and then [[spoiler:gets a good shot of MindRape before dying]], which prompts Van and Allen to run, ''very very fast''.

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* MysteriousWaif Tiffa Addil from ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' often collapses when she uses her Newtype powers to see the future. In the second episode, when she uses them to give Garrod access to the Gundam X's Satellite System, poor Tiffa has a horrible HeroicBSOD and almost ''dies'' of pain.
* ''Anime/{{Btooom}}'': Kaguya. Her ability to see the dead results in her becoming a spirit medium with vast clients who ask her to see their deceased love ones' spirits. It takes a toll on her, resulting in short spasms and seizures.
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' is a rare example of the FaintingSeer as ''the main character''. OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Hitomi Kanzaki often uses tarot cards to read people's futures (and she once receives a nasty surprise when she gets phantom-attacked by the Death card). She also makes a chilling discovery later when she finds out that [[spoiler:her anxiety about the future is actually causing the worst-case scenarios she fears to come true]].
** And then there's the time when she's being questioned, is asked to "show how her powers work," and then [[spoiler:gets a good shot of MindRape before dying]]. Which prompts Van and Allen to run, ''very very fast''.
* In ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'' the local Fainting Seer has a vision while in the bath with her sisters, who then rush out to confront the evil and leave her there.
* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', a fortune-teller asked his crystal ball about [[ExtremeOmnivore Zebra]] - the ball, instead, chose to self-destruct.
* While Haruka of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' is a {{telepath|y}}, this is usually not a problem for her... until episode 8's {{stinger}}, when she collapsed after having a vision of a violent crime. This happens again at the end of episode 10.

* ''Manga/Overlord2012'': The Slane Theocracy was using a seer to spy on Ainz' involvement with the Empire's yearly battle with the Kingdom. They still don't know how it went down because [[spoiler:on seeing Ainz cast a spell that killed a third of the enemy army and then summoned {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to take out even more of them]], the seer locked herself up in her tower and hasn't come out since.

* Both subverted and used straight by Dreamer in DC Comics' post-Zero Hour ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' continuity: she is a narcoleptic precognitive whose visions come to her in dreams, with the result that she pitches into a dramatic swoon ''any time'' a prophecy hits her, even if - as it is the first time we see it during her interview at the Legion's try-outs - it's a fairly immediate and small-scale prediction. On the other hand, for major visions, the fainting is often followed by a full-scale freak-out.
** Later, she undergoes TrainingFromHell to gain better control over her power... and becomes insomniac.
* Mrs. Yamilah from the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' book ''[[Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls The Seven Crystal Balls]]'' scream and faints after announcing that a spectator's husband just fell ill from a curse.
* Pretty much everyone associated with the Comicbook/XMen who has mental powers has an episode like this at least twice.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/FromHell'', where Queen Victoria's royal psychic Robert Lees claims he was a PhonyPsychic all along and he faked the seizures as part of his performance.
-->"I'd even pee in my trousers sometimes, for emphasis. Only during childhood, naturally. I'd long since purged my repertoire of that device by the time I was nineteen and first introduced to Her Majesty."
* The ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' suffered a brief bout of paralyzing psychic horror upon encountering [[{{Kaiju}} Terminus]] for the first time, since Terminus destroys planets much the way Galactus does but has none of the "keeping the cosmic balance" justifications for it that Galactus does. Terminus destroys planets for ''money.'' This scene was rather [[{{Narm}} Narmy,]] since even as bad as Terminus is, the Surfer gets into fights with far worse opponents on a pretty regular basis.

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* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': {{Downplayed}} for Celestine. She has yet to experience a [[FreakOut severe breakdown]] from her visions, but there isn't a single moment where she reacts positively. The other half of her vision regarding Kyril, which depicts a BloodSplatteredWarrior AtopAMountainOfCorpses, leaves her chilly and frightened. Particularly, Celestine's P.O.V. in the remastered version reveals that she feels burdened from her oftentimes painful visions.

* Fiver in ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', especially the animated film version; trapped in the warren, particularly, he swoons and froths at the mouth while panicking over what he thinks (correctly) is certain doom all around them. [[spoiler:His ravings give Hazel a [[TheHerald cunning plan]] which results in doom for the attacking Efrafans only]].

* Pippin in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', after getting his hands on the Isengard palantir and facing down Sauron.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Network}}'', where Howard Beale faints after a few of his apocalyptic rants. Beale is not, of course, an actual seer- he's going through what's essentially an intense mental breakdown, and the fainting is probably just him emotionally overwhelming himself. But since the titular TV network is intent on portraying him as "the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves" to drive up ratings, the fainting spells are pretty convenient for them, and instead of getting medical care Beale is allowed to pass out on live TV with no one moving to help him until the cameras stop rolling.

* In the ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' Series, Wistala plays this part first as an act when traveling with a circus, then later in order to infiltrate the dwarvish Wheel of Fire empire. She's actually very successful on account of being a rare dragon seer and one of her wild predictions coming true rather publicly.

* This occurs in ''The Message'', the fourth book in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series. Both Cassie and Tobias receive psychic messages from a distance; when they do, they pass out simultaneously. It turns out that these messages are the thought-speak of Ax, who's trapped in the Andalites' crashed Dome Ship.
* ''Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet'' describes a few of these from a first-person perspective. It turns out that when the titular prophet foresees a death by gunfire, he actually feels the bullets. Ouch.
* Subverted in Creator/DavidEddings' ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. When Garion's party gets caught in a magical face-off where taunts are exchanged in the form of each side's seer getting visions of the demon they need to summon, Silk's opponent blatantly rips off Silk's vision by applying BiggerIsBetter to it and then dramatically faints to cap it off. When it is evident that a giant demon is about to materialize right on top of him, the seer then wakes up without prompting to scramble out of the way.

* ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' features a group of party-goers trying out an Ouija board. Clarke, being a hard science fiction writer, explains the Ouija board's mysterious powers by way of subconscious personal knowledge from at least one of the planchette-holders. One of the members asks what planet the [[BenevolentAlienInvasion Alien Overloads]] come from. When the Ouija gives out an answer (which turns out to have been 100% accurate), one of the women faints (who turns out to have been the person who subconsciously knew the answer).

** Trisana Chandler, from the same series, doesn't quite faint, but once she starts learning to scry and see visions, they give her severe headaches. She also has a tendency to fall down when she comes out of her trances because she loses track of time and stands still in one spot for hours and hours, resulting in wobbly legs and cramps.
* Literary example of the interrupted prophecy type: in the Weis and Hickman ''[[Literature/TheDarkswordTrilogy Darksword Chronicles]]'', the protagonist is the subject of an ancient prophecy that states that he will bring about [[TheEndOftheWorldAsWeKnowIt the doom of the world]]. It turns out the prophet died before he could speak the last line, and in the third book the prophet's ghost reveals the last clause -- [[spoiler:"... or its salvation."]]

* Another example, where the interruption is due to enemy action -- in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' urban fantasy/detective stories, a prophecy has been given that if Harry the protagonist gets involved in the pursuit of a group of powerful demons, he will die. Harry discovers that the leader of the villains blocked the second part of the prophecy - that if Harry didn't get involved, the whole ''city'' would die. [[spoiler:And, in the end, prophecy in this series isn't completely inevitable -- an ally with terminal cancer takes Harry's place at the last minute, in an HeroicSacrifice.]]

* In ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'', Aphrodite's visions leave her extremely faint and jittery. She becomes a CassandraTruth when she falls from Neferet's good graces.

* In ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', Simon is introduced as the one who's "always throwing a faint". This the first indication of his abnormalities that culminate when he hallucinates the Lord of the Flies, who tells him about the true nature of the beast and the children's innate evil. After having this vision, he gets a nosebleed and faints.
** Before that, his prophetic abilities are suggested when he tells Ralph repeatedly: "I just think you'll get back all right." [[spoiler:(Notice that he says "you", not "we".)]]
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' Pippin also faints from looking into the palantir and has some downright postictal symptoms. Gandalf makes a point of not leaving him on his own afterwards.
* In Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''Literature/TheMerlinConspiracy'', when a new Merlin is introduced to give a prophecy, he begins weeping and faints. The audience is unimpressed, and complain that they wound up with one of the "weepy" kinds of seer.

* The title character in Helen Cresswell's ''[[Literature/TheBagthorpeSaga Ordinary Jack]]'' was pretending to be a prophet as an attention-getting gambit due to feeling unappreciated by his far less ordinary family. His Uncle Parker, who came up with the scheme, instructed him to swoon after every "vision" he managed to pull off.
* In ''Literature/RachelGriffin'', Nastasia sees visions of certain people when she touches them. When she shakes hands with someone she's been warned (by a girl named Cassandra, no less) not to touch, she [[PokeInTheThirdEye passes out.]]
* In ''Literature/TheTaggerung'', the renowned seer Grissoul dies after proclaiming ([[PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime in verse]]) that Ruggan Bor must beware of Redwall. This is exactly why Bor does not listen to her and consequently gets his ass kicked several chapters later.
-->"She was old. Foxes die when they get too old."
* Lots in the ''Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm'', to the point where it's standard practice for an acolyte to physically hold the Seer steady while he prophesies. They tend to hit their heads otherwise.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' - of course - loooves this trope. Being only WH 40k, the seers (astropaths and other psykers) don't usually faint. They tend to [[YourHeadASplode explode.]]

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Gitara Moroso drops dead from the shock of a Foretelling that TheChosenOne is at that very moment being {{reincarnat|ion}}ed nearby.

** Whenever Cordelia has a vision, she also gets migraines that tend to turn her into a Shrieking, Twitching, Convulsing And ''Then'' Fainting Seer. If she hadn't become half-demon, they would’ve eventually killed her.
** A more literal example would be one of Lorne's earlier appearances, "Happy Anniversary". Using his power to [[ItMakesSenseInContext read people's futures through karaoke]], Lorne reads a shy guy who comes into his karaoke bar one night. He receives a vision that tells him that the world is going to end because of this man in just a night's time (or rather specifically that there is "nothing" after a certain point in time). The vision knocks Lorne out, and he doesn't come to until after the guy leaves.
** Another example, in "Hell Bound", a medium suffers a PsychicNosebleed while being murdered by a dark spirit, mid-séance.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had Drusilla, a girl cursed with visions that took a serious physical toll on her, even after she was turned into a vampire. Depending on the nature of the vision, it could manifest as anything from fainting spells to migraines and awful stomach cramps, or just sounding like whispers to her.
* Phoebe from ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' never has a premonition without the standard gasping, shuddering, staggering, but when she has a particularly scary one (e.g. Herself being burned at the stake in Morality Bites) it's usually accompanied by her falling over, crying, screaming, and generally freaking out other people.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The seers in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] ''aren't'' seeing the volcano erupt, but one of them still faints when she is able to see that the Doctor is "a Lord, sir... a Lord... of Time."

* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' has Liz seeing what becomes of Garth's old friend ([[spoiler: He explodes]]) in a horrifying vision, crushing Sanchez's hand in the process.
* Justified in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', where Isaac Mendez uses heroin to get his visions of the future.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', on a ''Film/MadMax''-like world suffering from drought, the characters meet a girl, who appears to be the world's equivalent of a dowser, except she doesn't use a divination rod. Instead, when she gets a feeling of where (and how much) water is underground, there's a spectacular meteorological show involving wind and clouds, followed by her fainting.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' had a blind seer who looked into Lex Luthor's future, and she ''died''. The audience got to watch her vision, and it wasn't pretty.

* Tiresias, the [[TropeMaker original]] BlindSeer in classic mythology, was prone to this. In ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'', while giving his signature warning to Oedipus, he repeatedly collapses to the ground and has to be aided back to his feet.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

* ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: Sins of the Fathers'' has a standard seer freak-out, plus awfully specific horoscopes that must give several hundred thousand non-protagonist Aquarii a fright.
** Lampshaded in the game, when on the last day Gabriel comments as he reads his horoscope that somewhere in town is a schoolteacher who is very, very puzzled.

* Variation in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. During the prologue, Shepard meets a man who is having a freak-out related to his predictions (which happen to foreshadow major future plot points). He doesn't faint, but Renegade Shepard can punch him into unconsciousness.
** Played initially straight with Shepard and the Prothean beacons, as encountering the first beacon knocks them out for over 15 hours straight and causes them to suffer horrible nightmares about the end of all organic life. Averted later, as Shepard apparently builds up a tolerance to the visions and when they encounter another beacon on Virmire, they remain conscious throughout and only momentarily dazed afterwards. By the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 second game]], Shepard is barely affected by another version of the Prothean message encountered and in the ''From Ashes DLC'' of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', when Shepard views the Prothean data recordings detailing the fall of the Prothean settlement on Eden Prime, they simply tune out for a minute or so.
** Played straight with Liara however in the first game, when she offers to meld with Shepard to help you sort out the visions. The process leaves her decidedly woozy each time and she'll ask you if she can go crash in sickbay for a while afterwards. Somewhat justified, as she's not a particularly experienced melder and she can barely handle the intensity of the vision, commenting that it was most likely Shepard's [[HeroicWillpower sheer force of will]] that prevented it from [[MySkullRunnethOver destroying their mind]].
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', being set in the fairly magic-saturated Franchise/ForgottenRealms, has plenty of [=NPCs=] who comment on sensing a great destiny is in store for the PC. However, anyone you meet who claims to be an ''actual'' Seer or Fortune-Teller will have a massive freakout on being asked to see your future. Then there's ''"[[Literature/GoodOmens The Nice and Ominous Prophecies of Alaundo the Wise]], [[strike: Witch]] Seer"'', which give the distinct impression their original rendition wasn't ''quite'' as calm as their current recitations in Candlekeep.
** One of the seers actually gives you your money back, and will rather ''fight to the death'' then tell you the truth if you try to press her to tell you what she saw.
* Elayna from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' faints after having an apocalyptic vision of the future. It's a wonder that our heroes actually come to her aid when she does, as she spent the previous 20 minutes trash-talking and verbally abusing them. She makes up for it later, however.
* Played with slightly in the obscure game ''Falling Stars''. When your party consults a seer in regards to the Big Bad, she starts rattling something off. The BBEG notices her probing and kills her from halfway across the world to keep her from saying too much.
* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'', two FortuneTeller sisters have set up shop in Harapa. The younger offers Matthew and friends a free reading from her crystal ball and has a vision of them bringing disaster upon the world. This frightens her into a fit, and she refuses to ever tell fortunes for "those accursed warriors" again. Her sister completely averts this trope by remaining calm, upbeat, and giving some advice that's actually pretty helpful [[spoiler: even in the middle of the aforementioned disaster]].
** Much later in the game, our heroes arrive in [[{{Wutai}} Yamatai]] and learn that the princess has been having fainting fits and visions of terrible danger. [[spoiler: A strange stone they've acquired enables her to stay conscious and coherent through her visions and in repayment, [[EleventhHourRanger she joins them to find a way to end the Eclipse.]] ]]
* In ''VideoGame/IcewindDale 2'', you meet an already-fainted seer who attempted to scry on the goblin army attacking the Ten-Towns and got a nasty PokeInTheThirdEye from a goblin shaman. He is alive and recovering but only halfway conscious and lucid and speaks in riddles.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': [[spoiler:Serah and Yeul]] both have visions (albeit involuntarily) when the [[spoiler:timeline is altered (i.e. when paradoxes are created or destroyed)]]. At first, they experience mild headaches during their visions, but each time it [[PowerDegeneration gets a little bit worse]] (until they get to the point where they faint each time), [[spoiler:and they [[MySkullRunnethOver eventually die]].]]

[[spoiler:'''Serah:''']] [[BlatantLies N...no. I'm fine]].

* The title character of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan: Oracle for Hire'' has been known to have some very strange things happen when he has major visions. When he first saw the Storm of Souls, he spent a week in a coma. Later in the same story arc, an accident with a teleportation spell during a vision caused white light to come out of his eyes, and he was subsequently teleported to another plane.
** If [[LargeHam Zelda Zanzibar's]] performance is [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-10 consistent]], she was probably this when she had her second sight.
* The psychic in the ''Nightmare World'' story entitled [[http://www.nightmareworld.com/Viewer/NW-10-Enjoy-00.html "Enjoy the Silence"]]. A minor subversion as she handles the situation comparatively well, though she still is deeply shaken.
* [[http://thosedestined.pensandtales.com/?date=20050616 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/ThoseDestined'', right after [[TheHero Rae]] removes the collar that hid her ChosenOne aura.

-->'''Matoya''': Stupid Light Warriors must've broken my crystal. I keep asking for lotto numbers and all I get is "The Destroyer Is Manifest."
* Jade Harley from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Her narcolepsy sometimes leads her to mix up the present and the future. [[spoiler:It's actually a subversion - Jade doesn't have any innate power to see the future. Her dream self just happens to be in a place where visions from the past and future appear on clouds. We later find that she's not actually narcoleptic either - an alien from an AlternateUniverse was putting her to sleep with MindControl.]]
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': The fate of a few Inquisition espers, who scan for trouble with a special machine, is this at first. When their scans detected an anomaly in the last arc, two of them "passed cold away" and one of that pair had to be pulled out and sent to the ER. When the other two had recovered, they fired up the machine again to figure out the cause of the anomaly... [[spoiler:only for the psyonic blowback to [[YourHeadAsplode take them out]]]].

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* Rather than drawing Death repeatedly, in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, Gypsy (a precog with a long family history and an ancestral Tarot deck) does a reading for Carmilla (who is literally more than half-demon). The first card is 'the Devil'. So is each successive card. When someone else turns over ''the same card'', he gets the Three of Wands. Because the deck is alive and magical too.
* In the [[http://www.gaiaonline.com/ Gaia Online Manga]] series, Ms. Fortune predicts that 'a new threat shall come, one group shall survive or all will perish'. Of course, whatever this 'new threat' is is so terrible that Ms. Fortune delivers it twitching and holding her head in agony on the floor.

* ''Literature/HeroesSaveTheWorld'': When Simon Martin gets a vision of someone's future death, it unfolds in real time and he passes out for the duration. On the bright side, he passes out for only ten seconds, but on the downside, this severely limits how much information he can get.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': Niko can usually handle whatever she senses through her PsychicPowers. There have been a few occasions where it sucker-punches her, though. The best example was in "New Frontier" where she tries to find Eliza. As she's reaching out to find Eliza's presence, she runs straight into the [[BigBad Queen]]...who is ''much'' more powerful and forcefully ejects her. It causes Niko to briefly black out and fall over the console, freaking Zachary out.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', when Aang has his fortune read by the fortuneteller throwing a bone into a fire in order to read the cracks that form. The bone ''explodes'', signifying the great battle between Good and Evil that Aang is going to be in the middle of. Aang, of course, already knows about that and is much more interested in seeing if he will ever marry Katara.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', when Felix Faust usurps Hades's place in the underworld, magically-sensitive characters Dr. Fate and Zatanna find themselves in a bad way, laid out on their beds and screaming in pain.

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** If [[BigHam Zelda Zanzibar's]] performance is [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-10 consistent]], she was probably this when she had her second sight.

** Cordelia gets this.
*** Well, she's really more of a "Crippling Migraine Seer".
*** And the migraines are so bad that they tend to turn her into a Shrieking, Twitching, Convulsing And ''Then'' Fainting Seer.
*** That, if she hadn't become half-demon, would have been "Blow the back of your skull off Seer".

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': The [[{{Seers}} power]] bestowed upon Celestine allows her to see visions of the future, but it also takes a toll on her mentally. [[{{Downplayed}} Luckily]], she has yet to experience a [[FreakOut severe breakdown]] from the stress.

* In ''The Taggerung'', the renowned seer Grissoul dies after proclaiming ([[PropheciesRhymeAllTheTime in verse]]) that Ruggan Bor must beware of Redwall. This is exactly why Bor does not listen to her and consequently gets his ass kicked several chapters later.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Gitara Moroso dies from the shock of a Foretelling that the Dragon is at that very moment being reincarnated on the nearby slopes of Dragonmount.

* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Blackbird}}'', in which Randy has inexplicable premonitions of [[spoiler:Leslie's death]], and the first one leaves him momentarily dizzy and unresponsive.

* ''Anime/{{Btooom}}'': Kaguya. Her ability to see the dead results in her becoming a spirit medium with vast clients who ask her to see their deceased love ones spirits.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Sybill Trelawney always faints after going into a trance and prophesying. This, as far as we know, only happened to her grand total of twice in her lifetime. She doesn't remember it afterwards, and therefore not even aware of having that ability.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' - of course - loooves this trope. Only being WH 40k the seers (astropaths and other psykers) don't usually faint. They tend to [[YourHeadASplode explode.]]

* ''Literature/HeroesSaveTheWorld'': When Simon Martin gets a vision of someone's future death, it unfolds in real time and he passes out for the duration. On the bright side, he only passes out for ten seconds, but on the downside, this severely limits how much information he can get.

* ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' features a group of party-goers trying out an Ouija board. Clarke, being a [[SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction writer]], explains the Ouija board's mysterious powers by way of subconscious personal knowledge from at least one of the planchette-holders. One of the members asks what planet the [[BenevolentAlienInvasion Alien Overloads]] come from. When the Ouija gives out an answer (which turns out to have been 100% accurate), one of the women faints (who turns out to have been the person who subconsciously knew the answer).

* ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' features a group of party-goers trying out an Ouija board. Clarke, being a [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard science fiction writer]], explains the Ouija board's mysterious powers by way of subconscious personal knowledge from at least one of the planchette-holders. One of the members asks what planet the [[BenevolentAlienInvasion Alien Overloads]] come from. When the Ouija gives out an answer (which turns out to have been 100% accurate), one of the women faints (who turns out to have been the person who subconsciously knew the answer).

* Both subverted and used straight by Dreamer in DC Comics' post-Zero Hour ''Comicbook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' continuity: she is a narcoleptic precognitive whose visions come to her in dreams, with the result that she pitches into a dramatic swoon ''any time'' a prophecy hits her, even if - as it is the first time we see it during her interview at the Legion's try-outs - it's a fairly immediate and small-scale prediction. On the other hand, for major visions, the fainting is often followed by a full-scale freak-out.