In my latest book, The Colour of the Soul, the main female protagonist wakes from an eleven month coma with the ability to sense auras. But how common is this condition? Can anyone really see the colour of a soul? In this short article, I’m going to explore the science behind auras.

There has been much debate about the ability of certain people to see a person’s aura.

According to Wikipedia:

Psychological factors, including absorption, fantasy proneness, vividness of visual imagery, and after-images, might also be responsible for the phenomena of the aura.” Scientists have repeatedly concluded that the ability to see auras does not actually exist.

Sounds conclusive, but there are other points of view, for example this post on Reddit:

I think it’s reasonable to say that a person with a particular type of perception can perceive, with their mind, characteristics of a person that manifest visually and subjectively to them. In this case they are not actually perceiving the other person, but their own emotional state in response to and projected onto that person visually.

Some minds work differently, such as those with synaesthesia, so that things (such as emotion) which are not normally visual to most people are experienced visually. And if a person has a highly attuned emotional perception, then the “aura” they experience as visual phenomena may provide them with somewhat accurate information about the person they are looking at. It is feeling experienced as seeing, where vision is a metaphor for emotion, and it is an entirely internal, empirically unverifiable experience. But it is an experience nonetheless.

So the bottom line, some people undoubtedly can see what they perceive as an aura. Synaesthesia is actually quite common and explains how some people see music or hear colours. If you want to read how it affects Annalise Becker, you need to read The Colour of the Soul.

You can buy a copy on Amazon as an eBook here, or as a printed book here.

I can see the colour of your soul.