Why Anakin's visions are often negative...

[firehearts132]

Often when Anakin has visions, they are negative. A couple of them have positive, such as the one he had of him freeing the slaves, but quite a bit are bad. Two examples of these types of visions are when he had visions of Shmi getting tortured by the Tusken Raiders, and Padme dying in childbirth. Why is this? It's not neccessairly because Anakin

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[ladyhadhafang]

That's actually a very interesting idea. I'll admit I have a bit of headcanon in terms of Anakin being an empath -- a little crazy, I know, but I think it explains a lot. (YMMV)

[firehearts132]

Well, that sounds like an intriguing theory although I'm not sure if he could be an empath because he wasn't able to sense how malicious Palpatine really was. How did you come up with it?

P.S.: Now I can finally edit my comments. Thank goodness for that! :)

[ladyhadhafang]

That's definitely awesome! :D

And actually, that's a good question. :) I think it's mostly considering how he's driven to help and save people. And it might be another explanation for the whole "turning to save Padme" thing. Again, pretty crazy, but y'know...

[firehearts132]

I know, right? :)

Yeah, that makes some sense. In the vision, for example, Padme didn't seem exactly in danger of dying but seemed to be in a lot of labor pain. That must of scared Anakin to the point that he *did* think she was going to die...Not exactly a rational conclusion, but the pain must have really freaked him out.

[lazypadawan]

That's an interesting theory I'd never considered before.

[yaohua0106]

The thing is that Anakin's visions are always true, no matter what he did. He did not do anyting with Shmi, and she died; so the next time he did everything with Padme, and she end up died because of it.He learn his lesson from his first vision and use it in the next, and look what happened. Poor boy, he just can not win. If the force is warning him, should it better never show him the second vision?

[elizabeth_hoot]

Hmm, I'm not sure - the Dark Side is weakening, I think, in the original trilogy, and the visions we hear about there are nasty too: Yoda apparently sees Luke destroying the Rebellion, the Emperor sees Luke destroying him, Luke sees his friends being tortured. Maybe people just don't need to be warned of forthcoming happiness.

[girlofavalon]

Maybe people just don't need to be warned of forthcoming happiness.

That's what I think, too. To be honest, I can't recall any tales of good visions. Anywhere.

[firehearts132]

Well..I can think of *a little* positive visions. There is the one where Anakin had a vision that he freed the slaves, and he also said in the TPM book that he and Padme were destined to be married someday. But besides those two, I can't think of any.

[girlofavalon]

Yeah, there were those... :)

But I meant it outside of Star Wars. There aren't many tales of good visions out there. You don't need to know of happiness before it comes.