Comment by moralestapia
14 hours ago
What a beautiful finding.
Of note, 200-1,000 nm overlaps with the wavelengths we perceive.
Could it be that under some particularly dark environments, some particularly sensitive humans (or animals) can get a glimpse of it? I believe it's quite plausible.
No because the amount of illumination is dwarfed by the amount that must bounce on off from more normal sources for us to be aware of things.
I don't believe that, our senses are extremely (extreeeemeeeelyyy to the absolute extreme) sensitive. Our nose can detect single molecules and their chirality, our eyes can detect single photons under some conditions. We might be able to detect quantum phenomena as well ...
Are you suggesting this light is of lower intensity than what a single photon puts out? Explain your reasoning.
There's s knack to seeing auras. You need to soften your focus and kind of look more with peripheral vision than in the centre.
It's pretty easy to see the layer closest to the body. It's kind of like a bright outline about 1cm thick.
The layer with colours is further out and I've only ever seen it once. It was rad though, 10cm apple green flames appearing to shoot off my body as I moved my eyes around.
Certain lighting conditions make it easier, eg slightly dark environment with a backlit subject.
Anyway cue the downvotes from the overly analytical people here. As with all things meditation, the more you try the less you'll experience.
I can see colors on the periphery of my vision when black contrast with white too, and it is just... chromatic aberration from my glasses. Does not happen in a detectable level with my contacts.
What you experience as perception happens inside the brain, it's inherently deceptive. With suggestive practice you can teach your brain to 'perceive' all sorts of things that to you appear as real as any other perception.
One way to study this is to shut off the neural channels for external stimuli with NMDA-antagonists or isolating the entire body, you'll experience immersive perceptions, including visions. Falling for various degrees of decoration your brain provides spontaneously or has been trained to provide is foundational to many religious and mystical currents throughout history. Some of them consider not falling for at least some of these things to be the basic exercise of their regimes, e.g. non-reaction to mental phenomena in Goenka's vipassana or time-locked prayer as in canonical hours and islamic prayer.
The downvotes are because this is unreal. You are describing hallucinations. Lots of people have them.
Err no I'm not.
This article is literally about living bodies emitting light in our visible spectrum but it's a hallucination to claim to see it. Yeah right...
Downvotes are no surprise here though.
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