TITLE: Fires of Heaven, CHAPTER: 42 - Before the Arrow

"He had no idea why he had not simply ignored them. Except that his step was lighter and he felt full of vinegar. No wonder, really, leaving tomorrow at last. The dice seemed to be spinning in his head, and there was no knowing what pips would show when they landed."

Note here that the dice are purely metaphorical. Mat is not actually hearing dice. He says they seemed to be spinning in his head. He is feeling the same feeling he feels when he is rolling dice in a cup. Chance is being altered, there is going to be a metaphoric "toss of the dice" and the results are going to be important, and decided on one event. Very similar to dicing.

TITLE: Fires of Heaven, CHAPTER: 44 - The Lesser Sadness

"That should bring the Shaido in right enough, especially if Couladin was leading. If Couladin really was leading, if he thought Rand was with the pikes, if the pikes could hold until the horse arrived. . . A lot of ifs. Mat could hear those dice rolling in his head again. This was the biggest gamble he had ever taken in his life. He wondered how long it was until nightfall; a man should be able to make his way out in the night. He wished those dice would get out of his head, or else fall so he knew what they showed. Scowling into the rain, he booted Pips on down the hillside."

Here the dice are still pretty metaphorical, but they are becoming more real. Mat is starting to take his metaphor or dice rolling in his head, and transpond it to reality. Instead of just having the same feeling as he gets when dice are rolling in the cup, he is starting to actually hear the sounds of dice rolling in his head.

Now, I dont have my books one me [thats a lie, im just too lazy to look up a quote right now and you all know this anyways] but later on when Mat hears the dice, they are solid, they are almost physical, and they cause definate feeling. He feels like his skull is being used as a dice cup.

Now, what have we seen in the way of talents?

Siuan Sanche sees a glow around Ta'veren.

Min sees visions.

Hurin smells violence.

Male channelers feel an itch when females channel.

Now, the Talents are metaphysical. There is not actually light bouncing off solid objects around people that reflects into Mins eyes and is transmitted throught the ocular nerve into her brain and experianced as images. Ta'veren do not actually emit light that Siuan sees. Violence does not actually leave a smell that Hurins nose is magicly able to pick up on, and Saidar does not stimulate the nerves on the forearms of male channelers causing them to itch. These talents are all a sort of Sixth Sense that is experianced as one of the five senses sort of modified to take in information it could not have possibly obtained naturally.

Now, we have instances of Talents being manifested as sight, and smell and a sensation. Why not hearing? Why not, instead of a smell, or visions, or a sensation, you hear something? Like a fog horn. Or a beep. Or maybe... dice in your head?

Here is my theory:

The Dice in Mats head are a Talent.

The dice in Mats head are sort of like the glow that Siuan Sanche sees around Ta'veren, or Mins visions. The Dice are merely a represantation of Mats ability to sense his own Ta'verenness working. Every time Mat has heard the dice, there has been something significant in regards to the pattern happening. He meets Tuon. Battles. Dicing.