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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2014-10-21</periodOfReport>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000894237</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>VISION SCIENCES INC /DE/</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>VSCI</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001194466</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>LANDMAN MARK S</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O VISION-SCIENCES, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>40 RAMLAND ROAD SOUTH, SUITE 1</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>ORANGEBURG</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>10962</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <officerTitle>VP, Disposables Operations</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <derivativeTable>
        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock par value $0.01 per share</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>0.87</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2014-10-21</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate>
                <value>2014-10-21</value>
            </deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>58620</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.87</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <value>2014-10-21</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>58620</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>254644</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
    </derivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">See remarks</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>The restrictions on these shares lapse in part upon the achievement of certain Company milestones and in part upon the achievement of certain individual milestones, in each case followed thereafter by vesting in equal annual installments over the following four years.</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Mark S. Landman</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2014-10-28</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
