vision
Sign in to savesomething seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy
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- Visions
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Illumination from Liber Scivias, showing Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision, dictating to her scribe and sketching on a wax tablet
A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation. Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations. Visions are known to emerge from spiritual traditions and could provide a lens into human nature and reality. Prophecy is often associated with visions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vision” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.