Shallan's "Sight" and Soullcasting powers: Two sides of the same coin?

[Kykeon]

The idea for this camae when I reminded the scene where she starts to paint the corner of her room and "blinks" to memorize the scene.

Immediately afterwards, she hears" Who are you?"  in her head and freaks out, and the rest is history.

Now, my theory is that her Sight is a way to connect her mind with the spren in the vicinity which witness every situation that happens on the mainland (reminds me of the Obligators ).

Immedeatly after a drawing is finished, it 'fades' from her mind.

We know that spren can be controlled by recording information about them, so it should also work in he other direction.

Did I make myself clear?  

Just ask if I didn't, and feel free to poke holes in my theory.

Edited October 16, 2012 by Kykeon

[Andrew the Great]

Your theory is fairly clear, I think.

I'm not buying it though. It's an interesting idea, but I just don't see any reason why the spren being controlled by recording information about them should work the other way. And it doesn't actually really make sense too (I'm controlling the Spren to make them record information....which I did by recording information to control the spren......)

I can see how it might work, yes, but it just doesn't seem like the easiest explanation.

[Kykeon]

You know how feedback works?

That's what I had in mind.

Also, bump. 

Edited October 16, 2012 by Kykeon

[DariusJenai]

Only problem with this theory is that Shallan hadn't blinked to memorize the scene there.  She was just staring at it sketching.

She stopped humming and opened her eyes. The stick had not changed. So much for that tip, she thought, setting the stick aside with a sigh. She

[Zas678]

But- Jasnah says that what Shallan does is different than what she can do. She says something like "it's similar." But it isn't exactly the same.

[Andrew the Great]

Actually, if I recall correctly, we know next to nothing about how Jasnah does it except that it isn't exactly the same. As to how different it is, we don't really have any indication.

[happyman]

I think we've learned enough now that we might make sense of these.

Each order of Knights Radiant had access to two magic systems.  Maybe the memories are a manifestation of the magic system that Shallan has that Jasnah does not.

As to how the Spren relate to it---we don't know.  We still haven't figured out whether each type of bonding-spren (if that's how it works) provides two magic systems, or if they bond two spren, or what.