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'''Dalinar's visions''' wereare short episodes [[Dalinar]] experiencedexperiences during [[highstorm]]s.

After he began listen to readings from [[Way of Kings|The Way of Kings]] Dalinar experiencedbegun experiencing strange episodes during each highstorm. He feltfeels the visions as real.{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}} During these visions Dalinar hadhas to be tied to the chair because he ravedraves and thrashedthrashes about.{{ref|b|sa1|c|18}} Watching him wasis unnerving and [[Renarin]] toldtells him that he spokespeaks gibberish during the visions.{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}} Though Dalinar thoughtthinks that the visions might have been sent from the [[Almighty]] he waveredwavers and feltfeels uncertain about them. Talking to the [[ardent]]s didndoesn't bring any solution. Dalinar hadhas to make a decision and he diddoes so when he decideddecides to abdicate his position as Highprince in favor of [[Adolin]].{{ref|b|sa1|28}} In an argument about this topic Renarin suggestedsuggests that they try to prove whether the visions wereare fabrications or borecontain any real references, and they decideddecide to ask Navani to write the visions down.{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}} This leadleads to the discovery by Navani that Dalinar didndoesn't speak gibberish during his visions,: butduring the first vision she witnesses, he spokespeaks the Dawnchant. They consideredconsider thatthis it was provenproof that the visions wereare real, as the Dawnchant is a real, ancient, but extinct language on Roshar,; one which Dalinar would have had no prior knowledge of toif fabricatehis itmind were fabricating the visions.{{ref|b|sa1|c|60}} As a side effect, Navani wasis sure that this could help to translate an old book called [[Analectics]].

All these visions sharedshare the challenge given by an unknown voice.

From the visions and this shared statement Dalinar drewdraws the conclusion that he hadhas to unite [[Alethkar]]'s [[highprince]]s because only then wouldwill mankind have a chance to withstand the coming events.

One vision wasis mentioned{{ref|b|sa1|c|12}} and four of them were described in [[The Way of Kings]].

During this vision Dalinar foundfinds himself asin the embodimentrole of a man, [[Heb]], who livedlives with his wife and daughter, presumably during the advent of a [[Desolation]]. Heb and his daughter wereare attacked by [[Midnight Essence]]s but managedmanage to reach Heb's house, unharmed. Two othermore of these beasts followedfollow, and after Heb (Dalinar) foughtfights them off, heHeb tooktakes his wife and daughter and fledflees out offrom the house, only to run into other Midnight Essences. When he and his family thoughtthink theyall wereis lost, two Knights Radiant camecome. One immediately beganbegins to fight the beasts while the second useduses "Regrowth" forto healing onheal Heb and his family before joining her companion in fighting the Midnight Essences. Feeling good again after the healing, Heb joinedjoins the fight and the three of them foughtfight off the Midnight Essences. The male Knight Radiant, [[Harkaylain]], askedasks Heb about his strange fighting stances and invitedinvites him to come to [[Urithiru]], where the Knights Radiant are centered,: because everybody who could fight wasis needed.{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}

Dalinar mentionedmentions that this wasis his twelfth vision.

Dalinar wasis in the role of a soldier (named Leef) at [[Feverstone Keep]], and there witnessedwitnesses when the Orders of the Windrunners and the Stonewards abandonedabandoning their [[Shardplate]]s and [[Shardblade]]s, and leftleave the people. Though Dalinar triedtries to get an answerexplanation for their abandonment from the leaving former Knights Radiant, he gotgets none. The voice toldtells him that "this event will go down in history" and Dalinar assumedassumes that he just saw the [[Day of Recreance]].{{ref|b|sa1|c|52}}

In this vision Dalinar wasis shown the aftermath of a Desolation. His embodimentrole wasis Karm,as whoa wasman thenamed Karm, an advisor ofto a king, probably [[Nohadon]] himself. This king waveredwavers over what to do with the [[Surgebinding|Surgebinders]], and how they could be forcedmade to act more honorablehonorably. Though this king wasis younger than Dalinar had imagined Nohadon andto hebe, and refused the idea of writing a book as absurd, Dalinar wasis sure that he was right about him being Nohadon. Eventually this man decideddecides to unite the people forso athat betterthey standingcan stand better against future Desolations.{{ref|b|sa1|c|60}}

This is the last vision recorded in [[The Way of Kings]]. Dalinar foundfinds himself in a place that he recognizedrecognizes as the place of his very first vision. A man stoodstands beside him, showing him what might happen andin tellingthe himfuture—though the man admits that [[Cultivation]] wasis better in seeing the future than he. Then, finally, Dalinar realizedrealizes that this voice, this man, never has never heard him, andexplaining sowhy he never answered hisDalinar's questions.

This man then toldtells Dalinar that he wasis God, the Almighty and that [[Odium]] hadhas killed him.{{ref|b|sa1|c|75}}

Though Dalinar feltfeels the visions as real, he always rememberedremembers who he really wasis. His actions and thoughts wereare Dalinar'shis own, though he couldcan interact with his environment.

Dalinar couldcannot not summon his Shardblade in a vision.