Comment by nprateem
12 hours ago
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.
The article specifically states that this light is NOT visible to humans:
> UPE, also known as biophoton emission, is a spontaneous release of extremely low-intensity light that is invisible to the human eye and falls within the spectral range of 200–1,000 nm.
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The article talks about tissue itself emitting light. By what mechanism would this light produce a "bright outline about 1cm thick"? Lamps etc. don't produce such an outline.
Downvotes is the natural allergic reaction to alien ideas. Science to many isn't just a theory equal among others, but a religion, a part of their identity that they are very defensive about. The core postulate of this religion is that everything can be reduced to concepts understandable by their minds and replicated in a mechanical experiment, or it doesn't exist. If a few dozens of people could reliably demonstrate that they see the same aura, that would be a disaster for science as a religion, because a phenomenon apparently exists, yet you can't build an aura detector. On the other hand, this defensiveness is necessary to protect the science, for if you start admitting alien ideas without their assimilation, the science will fall apart.
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>Downvotes are no surprise here though.
Yeah, HN has become quite hostile, no wonder why their numbers are sinking.
Also, people don't follow through arguments anymore, one reply then disappear, extremely weak strawmams, etc.
You tell people they're wrong and you get "watch your tone" back.
Sad as this used to be a great community!