PSYCHIC INTOXICANTS
Generally useable by anyone who's at all telepathically receptive, though different varieties might well work better with different mindsets.
This packaged intensifier is usually distributed in the form of a caffeinated sugar pill; while this provides a minor metabolic boost on its own, the psychic effects are more pronounced, providing a strong but brief enhancement of the user's capabilities. This drug is known to be particularly addictive to certain emotional types such as megalomaniacs.
Offered as a red, slightly glittery dust, Zoom is pseudocrystalline and, chemically, completely inert. Its preparation gives it a psionic "charge". When activated - usually by exhaling a pinch's worth of the ultralight dust and looking through the resulting cloud, but fixing attention on it while it's airborne is the main thing - it ensnares the user's conscious thought processes, slowing them down. The senses and involuntary processes still work at the normal rate, and that discrepancy in the subjective passage of time is what it's mostly taken for. Among beings whose eyes have a limited depth of field, it tends to result in some blurring of vision as the eyes overcompensate their own focus. Zoom can be prepared by anyone who knows how, as long as there are compatible minds in the general vicinity.