Ok, I finally have time to try to come up with a vote. I'll actually try to come up with two votes - one for saying that Xander had a single, long vision and the other for saying that Xander keeps getting new visions. The downside of the first option is that the others are likely to want to know all of the details of the long vision right then while the second option's downside is that we have to keep choosing over and over again what and when to tell the others. I prefer the first option because I like being as honest as we can while the second option feels vaguely manipulative to me.
[X] Admit to having what seems to have been an extremely long vision of a possible future right before meeting Buffy. The vision covered several years, but it had limited information and time skips. Honestly, it felt a lot like watching a tv show instead of living an alternate life. Druscilla seemed to know about the vision somehow and had a couple of questions about Angel and herself.
-[X] Before anyone gets upset about you not mentioning the vision before, you'd like to emphasize a couple of things. First, you had the vision RIGHT BEFORE meeting Buffy. You hadn't known about the supernatural beforehand, and Buffy and Giles would have had no reason to believe you if you had told them you had a vision about them in the beginning. While you know that Willow would have believed you, you also know that she's terrible at keeping secrets, and you didn't want to interfere with Willow and Buffy's friendship.
-[X] Second, this vision was only of ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE. Any changes from that future made the vision less reliable, and even you knowing about that future meant that you weren't the exact same person who lived that future. Telling everyone about the vision would have just made the vision even less reliable, and you had worried about getting everyone focused on a specific danger, only to be blindsided by a danger that hadn't appeared in the vision. That's exactly what had happened to you last night.
-[X] Finally, you'd like to point out that you did try to use the vision to help avert the worst things you saw. Unfortunately, you're a regular human teenager, and knowing about possible bad outcomes didn't always mean it was possible to prevent them. The first major thing you tried to change was to save Jesse from becoming a vampire, and instead, you just pushed the vampires into killing him faster.
--[X] While you can tell everyone all about the vision now that things are really off the rails, you'd like everyone to consider whether they really want to know all of the "gory" details. After all, events aren't likely to occur the same way that they did in the vision, and they've all lived different lives than the versions of them in the vision. Do they really want to focus on what might have been if everything had happened in a very specific way?
That's a pretty long vote, and I'm sure that it could be worded better, but I don't have a lot of time tonight. Here's the version for if we want to say that we're having a series of visions.
[X] Admit to having a series of dreams of a possible future, starting right before meeting Buffy. The dreams seemed to show upcoming dangers, but they also were limited to one timeline that was not affected by anything you did in reaction to those dreams. Druscilla seemed to know about the dreams somehow and had a couple of questions about Angel and herself.
-[X] Before anyone gets upset about you not mentioning the dreams before, you'd like to emphasize a couple of things. First, you had the first dream RIGHT BEFORE meeting Buffy. You hadn't known about the supernatural beforehand, and Buffy and Giles would have had no reason to believe you if you had told them you had a dream about them in the beginning. While you know that Willow would have believed you, you also know that she's terrible at keeping secrets, and you didn't want to interfere with Willow and Buffy's friendship.
-[X] Second, these dreams are only of ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE. Any changes from that future made the dreams less reliable, and even you knowing about that future meant that you weren't the exact same person who lived that future. Telling everyone about the dreams would have just made them even less reliable, and you had worried about getting everyone focused on a specific danger, only to be blindsided by a danger that hadn't appeared in the dreams. That's exactly what had happened to you last night.
-[X] Finally, you'd like to point out that you did try to use the dreams to help avert the worst things you saw. Unfortunately, you're a regular human teenager, and knowing about possible bad outcomes didn't always mean it was possible to prevent them. The first major thing you tried to change was to save Jesse from becoming a vampire, and instead, you just pushed the vampires into killing him faster.
--[X] While you can tell everyone all about the dreams now that things are really off the rails, you'd like everyone to consider whether they really want to know all of the "gory" details. After all, events aren't likely to occur the same way that they did in the dreams, and they've all lived different lives than the versions of them in the dreams. Do they really want to focus on what might have been if everything had happened in a very specific way?
What are the chances that they'll keep quiet about that?