Editing Visions

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|related=[[Shards]], [[Spiritual Realm]], [[Cognitive Realm]]

|books=[[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]], [[The Stormlight Archive]]

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{{for|Five Visions|the [[Austrism|Austrist]] religious text}}

{{dialogue|Spook|What is this?|Kelsier|Half dream.|Spook|Half dream?|Kelsier|You’re almost dead, kid. Smashed your spirit up pretty good. Lots of cracks. That let me in.|attr={{msh ref|6|6}}}}

'''Visions''' are a partially spiritual partially cognitive phenomena that Shards and some Invested individuals can induce.

== Characteristics & Attributes ==

=== Realms ===

Visions are almost like glimpsing into the [[Spiritual Realm]], but viewed through the [[Cognitive Realm]].{{wob ref|9562}} This is done by a person being pulled through the Realms into the Spiritual Realm, with the Cognitive Realm adding framework to seeds set in place. This allows the person to interact with the vision, and for the vision to respond, similar to an AI.{{book ref|sa1|19}} Almost anything can be shown in a vision.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}} Visions can also be used for meetings, creating a near empty void just for communicating with others.{{book ref|sa3|34}}{{book ref|sa3|122}}{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}

Visions may be a type of pocket dimension in the Spiritual Realm and are considered a warping of the Realms.{{wob ref|14733}}{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}{{book ref|sa4|i|6}} Due to this, time may slow in the [[Physical Realm]] when a vision is occurring.{{book ref|sa4|107}}{{book ref|sa4|113}} Visions do not change the past or create alternate timelines.{{wob ref|848}}{{wob ref|7321}}

=== Creation ===

{{dialogue|Dalinar|This place is where you make the visions happen, isn’t it? Time sometimes moved oddly in those.|Stormfather|Yes. But you must have Connection for a vision. You must have a reason for it. A meaning. It cannot be just anything.|attr={{book ref|sa4|107}}}}

Those with the ability are able to induce visions on their targets. In order to bring a person into a vision, a strong [[Connection]] must be made.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}{{book ref|sa4|107}}{{book ref|sa4|112}} This may require a conduit (such as the [[Everstorm]], [[Highstorm]], or access via someone else Connected to them) if the Connection between the two is not strong enough.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}} For [[Shard]]s, targeting lone individuals requires a high level of Connection.{{book ref|sa4|80}}

=== Mechanics ===

Those pulled into a vision have little control over it and often can't refuse.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}} However, they may be able to pull in those they are bonded with.{{book ref|sa4|107}} Those pulled into a vision manifest via their mind and soul, ignoring physical aliments.{{book ref|sa4|113}} Some visions can be slowed down, similar to the effects of a [[bendalloy|speed bubble]].{{book ref|sa3|34}}

Those who a brought into a vision can bring some things with them (such as the [[Thrill]], [[Surgebinding]], or [[Nightblood]]),{{wob ref|258}}{{book ref|sa3|103}}{{book ref|sa4|113}} though some things cannot be brought (such as [[Shardblade]]s).{{book ref|sa1|19}} Things affected in a vision will carry over after exiting one, such as paper being torn in a vision remaining torn after leaving the vision.{{book ref|sa4|i|6}} Likewise, some entities inside a vision can still be harmed or killed.{{book ref|sa4|113}}{{book ref|sa4|i|6}} Accents might not carry over inside of visions.{{book ref|sa3|58}}

==== Interference ====

Some individuals are able to control the visions of others, entering, leaving, and removing others on their own without the creators authority.{{book ref|sa3|42}}{{book ref|sa4|80}} They can also be messed with under certain inhibitors, such as [[suppression fabrial]]s.{{wob ref|14481}}

== Honor's Visions ==

{{for|Dalinar's visions|more information}}

[[Honor]], via the [[Stormfather]], sent [[Dalinar's visions|visions]] to both [[Gavilar#Visions|Gavilar]] and [[Dalinar]] during every highstorm.{{wob ref|3316}} These visions feel real to them, and they experienced them as themselves, but other people in the visions see them as someone else, not as an outsider.{{book ref|sa1|19}} At the end of every one of them, they hear the voice of Honor speaking to them, commanding them to "unite them." As the visions are pre-recorded, they cannot communicate with Honor.{{book ref|sa1|75}} They were selected to see these visions as part of being on the path of becoming a [[Bondsmith]].{{wob ref|2509}} After [[Nahel bond|bonding]] with the Stormfather, Dalinar was able to control and chose who experiences the visions and able to bring other people into the visions with him.{{book ref|sa3|56}}

== Odium's Visions ==

[[Odium]] can bring others into vision, which he used often to communicate with them directly.{{book ref|sa3|122}}{{book ref|sa4|i|4}} When used for communication, Odium typically creates a vast field of golden light and stone.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}{{book ref|sa4|i|6}}

Notably, Odium was demonstrated to be vulnerable during his visions, allowing the vessel, Rayse, to be slain by Nightblood.{{book ref|sa4|113}}{{book ref|sa4|i|6}} This shattered the vision, leaving a dark void, within which [[Taravangian]] was able to ascend to the Shard of Odium.{{book ref|sa4|113}}

[[Kelsier]], as [[Preservation]], was able to pull a semi-comatose [[Spook]] into a "half dream" of how the world once was to communicate vital information to Spook about how to defeat [[Ruin]].{{msh ref|6|6}}

== Renarin's Visions ==

[[Renarin]] is able to show a person an alternate version of themselves, similar to the effect of [[Allomancy|Allomantic]] [[gold]] or [[malatium]]. This manifests as an illusory image of the target's alternate self standing within a cloud of bright white light.{{book ref|sa4|8}}

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