As far as I can tell (if my memory serves correctly), she can only pick up on information that people already know about themselves.
I view her reading people more as an emotional connection rather than reading specific thoughts. With respct to seeing the future, it seems more that she gets a vague sensation of experiencing an event than actually knowing any context of what she is seeing.
In the pilot, she kept seeing that the doctor was going to help a person named Senga, but it turns out that she was saw the back side of some cut out letters of the name Agnes from the doctor's perspective at some point in the future. He didn't know about that at the time.
With the waitress at the casino, Bo could sense the sadness and knew that it was due to a sick child at home, but she couldn't read the waitress's mind to find out details about the child, Bo had to ask for details about the waitress's son.
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