The Origin of Vakama's Visions?

Mata Nui installed a plot convenience chip inside of Vakama.

"What is vakama another vision? " "shut up pohatu "

This is an interesting question. Greg claims his future-seeing visions are simply a glitch from his creation process. However, the glitch seems (from our knowledge) to be exclusive to him, which might indicate something unique about Vakama.

His destiny, of course, was to enact the Great Rescue, but it was also his destiny to create the Mask of Time. This unique time-related destiny draws a fairly strong link, in my opinion, to his equally unique time-related glitch, and so I consider his visions a result of his destiny to create the mask of time.

Any creature, organic or biomechanic, is comprised of multiple elements. We have AIR in our lungs, WATER in our bodies, FIRE in our mind, etc; etc;

Elemental powers are not limited to just the elements of the land, sea, or sky, they allow one to manipulate the internal elements of beings as well. Borderline psionics, if you’d like to call it that. Here’s some examples:

Water — Control someone’s blood,
Air — Control someone’s breath, or take it away
Fire — Take away their emotions, or mess with their mind. ((The brain generates heat))
Earth — (Debatable) Enrich their body, or take their nutrients away
Stone — Control the bones, or force bone growth where it shouldn’t. (Turning a person into a statue. A real thing btw)
Ice — Cool down their body, or force them into a fever.

Vakama having visions likely meant he was wildly powerful, incredibly strong—probably stronger than Tahu—yet that elemental energy could never manifest externally due to his fears. So instead, unknowingly, his powers were being used on himself.

If you think about it, Vakama’s visions always triggered immediately in moments of stress. Where one’s toa powers should activate. “But what about when he was saved by Lhikan’s board? He wasn’t a toa then!” Yes, but remember that Matoran have dormant toa powers, they manifest into their drives or sensations. Matoro was always a protector and willing to sacrifice himself to save others. Kapura was always trying to activate his mask power during MNOG. Vakama as strong as he is would have toa visions even as a Matoran.

But Heraclitus said everything is an interchange of fire. So perhaps Vakama simply had an innate understanding of fire that granted him visions of the future.