Talk:Alec/@comment-66.130.202.9-20130317172607/@comment-220.255.1.99-20130530072900

Actually, I don't get it either. Sure, if Alec's power was to give others the ILLUSION of feeling nothing, than it would be a mental power. But according to the books, Alec shuts of their senses. To shut of anyone's senses, the nerves have to be affected. Since the nerves are cells, and therefore of the physical world, Alec's power should not be classified as mental. Unlike his sister Jane, who makes people THINK that they are being burned and feeling the pain of such, Alec's power is actually cutting of the senses, and not only making people believe that their senses are being shut down.

And Benjamin trying and failing to blow his mist away isn't a reason. A power is classified as mental because it affects a person mentally, and not because it is created with the mind. The mist could actually merely be a manifestation of Alec's power, so of course it couldn't be blown away, because its isn't really there. But the power itself affects others physically. Or else, Jasper's and Alice's powers should also be considered mental, and yet they affect Bella.