Aura
Category: Spiritual
Aura Colors and Meanings - Overview of Traditional Interpretation Systems
In spiritual traditions, different meanings are assigned to each aura color. Red represents vitality, passion, and anger; orange creativity and sociability; yellow intellect and optimism; green healing, growth, and jealousy; blue tranquility and communication; purple spirituality and intuition; white purity and higher consciousness. However, these correspondences vary by culture and school, with no unified standard. When seeing a specific colored aura in dreams, what that color personally evokes for the dreamer matters more than dictionary definitions.
Migraine Aura vs Spiritual Aura - Same Name, Entirely Different Phenomena
The medical term aura refers to neurological symptoms appearing before migraine attacks. Most common is scintillating scotoma - a jagged ring of light appearing in part of the visual field, expanding over 15-30 minutes. This occurs when cortical spreading depression (CSD), an electrical wave, passes through the visual cortex. People experiencing migraine aura sometimes confuse their 'seeing lights' experience with spiritual aura. When rings of light or colors appear during sleep onset, ruling out neurological causes first is important.
Psychological Meaning of Aura Experiences in Dreams
Seeing people's auras in dreams is interpreted as reflecting the dreamer's sharpness in interpersonal perception. People with high ability to non-verbally read others' emotions and intentions in daily life tend to have these visualized as colors in dreams. Dreams of dark-colored auras around specific people may express unconscious wariness or distrust toward them. Dreams of bright, glowing auras suggest trust, goodwill toward that person, or one's own mental fulfillment. The key is not interpreting dream aura colors by dictionary but attending to emotions felt when seeing those colors.
The Truth About Kirlian Photography - Scientific Evaluation of Aura Imaging
The high-voltage photography technique developed by Soviet couple Kirlian in 1939 can photograph discharge patterns of light around objects. This spread as 'scientific evidence of auras,' but is actually merely corona discharge, a physical phenomenon. Discharge patterns change with humidity, pressure, voltage, and subject moisture content, unrelated to emotions or spiritual states. The 'phantom leaf effect' where cutting part of a leaf supposedly leaves the full discharge pattern has low reproducibility, with residual moisture being the likely explanation. Aura photography businesses still exist but lack scientific basis.
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