[Twotone]

I’m sure many with this ability don’t make it known, feeling that most people will just think they’re crazy.

I’ve twice been told I have a blue aura. Blue is my favorite color, but I wasn’t wearing blue when I was told this. The last lady said she tried to tell her eye doc about seeing auras. He didn’t believe her. Oh well...

[Rockingham]

I too used to scoff at claims of seeing auras. Then I learned that human color vision is more variable than is commonly realized. Some people, usually women, are thought to have tetrachromacy, meaning that, like some animals, they have not three but four types of color-sensing cone cells in the retinas in their eyes.

This provides an extra channel of light sensing into the ultraviolet range, with the visual processing center of the brain converting this into perception of a wider range of colors. I believe that this may account for people who see auras.