Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27565137-20160130014722/@comment-27565137-20160130032347

Soul reaper wrote: I think it probably woke their dormant powers, rather than actually granting them.

Yes. Exactly. Like a instinct move.

After all there was so much Ichigo didn't knew about himself, and that other people did. The kid was pretty much in the dark from the beginning of the manga up until now.

He could have done it without even knowing he did it.