Visions

In spirituality including mysticism, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a supernatural being and are believed (by followers of certain religions) to come from a deity, sometimes directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany. Some take the word vision to be synonymous with apparitional experience.

Vision of God in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 1. (6th century BC)
Vision of a heavenly figure "like a son of man" in Daniel 7:13 (6th century / 2nd century BC)
Jesus' vision of the dove when baptized in the Book of Mark 1:10 (1st century AD)
Paul's vision of Christ (Acts of the Apostles 9:5) (1st century AD)
The Apocalypse in Revelation (1st-2nd century AD)
Marian apparitions (visions or visitations of Mary, mother of Jesus) (1st century AD - present)
Visions of the afterlife in the martyr accounts of Perpetua and Felicity (2nd century AD)
The theoria (Vision of God) by which a Christian mystic may discern a deep aspect of God (in the Eastern Orthodox tradition) (3rd-6th cent. AD)
Constantine's vision of Christ's sign (312 AD)
Jakob Böhme's vision of 1600, revealed when he observed the beauty of a beam of sunlight in a pewter dish
René Descartes' series of dreams on the night of November 11, 1619, which set the course of his life in science
Blaise Pascal's vision of November 23, 1654, which reinvigorated his spiritual commitment
Emanuel Swedenborg's visions, which formed the basis of a newly revealed doctrine (beginning in 1740s)
Joseph Smith's First Vision (1820)
Nat Turner's vision of February 12, 1831, in which he saw an actual eclipse of the sun that day as a black man's hand covering the solar orb, interpreting it as a sign to launch his slave rebellion
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa describes of several visions including Kali, Sita, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed. (mid/late 19th cent.)
Angels of Mons (1914)

Source: Wikipedia