# Do people have auras?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-have-auras/189461 "2003-07-18T20:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Psifireus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Psifireus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psifireus)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-have-auras/189461/41 "2003-07-22T06:09:08Z")

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> _Originally posted by Kamandi_  
> **You should try cleaning your glasses.**

Do you _really_ think that would help?

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> _Originally posted by David Simmons_  
> **Contact James Randi. You might make a great deal of money.**

Who is James Randi?

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> _Originally posted by nobodyimportant_  
> \*\*Psifireus, I once saw a Discovery channel (I think) presentation of that phenomenon. A little boy was able to see auras around everyone’s head and he supposedly used it as a judge of that person’s character, or something like that.
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> That’s very cool, IMHO. For you, have the auras ever corresponded to anything about the particular person?
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> \<skepticism\>I don’t disbelieve that you see them, but how do you know they are “auras”, per se? \*\*

As far as auras corresponding to anything specific about a person, I guess one would have to have some idea how to interpret the colors within the aura. I don’t know how to do that.

The skeptical part of your question got me thinking…Now that I think about it, I’m in no way sure that what I am seeing is _really_ an aura. I suppose that was just an assumption on my part.

I do tend to believe that there must be some sort of _energy field_, for lack of a better term, that surrounds each of us, though. I know I’m seeing _something_, I guess I shouldn’t have been so quick to label it an _aura_.

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**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-have-auras/189461/42 "2003-07-22T07:01:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by psifireus \*  
> Who is James Randi?

> **[Home](https://web.randi.org)**
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> JREF

James Randi is a man who is offering one million dollars to anyone who can display, beyond the shadow of a doubt, in a controlled environment, “supernatural” powers

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> The skeptical part of your question got me thinking…Now that I think about it, I’m in no way sure that what I am seeing is _really_ an aura. I suppose that was just an assumption on my part.
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> I do tend to believe that there must be some sort of _energy field_, for lack of a better term, that surrounds each of us, though. I know I’m seeing _something_, I guess I shouldn’t have been so quick to label it an _aura_.

I have no problem accepting that you are seeing _something_. However, I think if you keep an open mind, you simply cannot jump to conclusions and state that that something corresponds to an actual external phenomenon. If there is an energy field, then we should be able to measure it.

Do you accept the distinct possibility that the “aura” you are seeing is a hallucination? Note that I mean absolutely no disrespect with the use of the word “hallucination”. I simply mean that the light you are seeing might be an internal phenomenon rather than an external one.

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