Disambiguate the word "aura"

Here in the DID Forum, the word "aura" is used to mean several different groups of phenomena.

1. The "vibe" or energy or affect/mood of a person or alter.

2. The visual phenomena of a migraine headache, especially scintillating scotoma.

3. The visual perception of light radiating from another person. See our thread Can you see a person's aura?

4. The many phenomena that may occur shortly before an epileptic seizure. Re this meaning of the word aura, here is a list of aura symptoms:

The Montreal Neurologic Institute classification of epileptic auras: Psychic auras were defined as cognitive (dreamy states=mixed dream and present reality; forced thinking=recurrent and stereotyped intrusive thoughts; depersonalization=sense of unreality about the self; derealization=sense of unreality about the external world; altered time sense=distorted perception of time) and noncognitive (affective=fear, anxiety and so on; illusion=modification in perception of objects, e.g., macropsia or metamorphopsia; dysmnesic=déjà vu, jamais vu; dysphasic=speech arrest or impaired comprehension; hallucinations=visual experiences). In addition to psychic auras, the other aura categories were classified according to a modified version of previously adopted classifications (visceral=epigastric rising sensation; cephalic=head pressure; somatosensory=tingling sensations, numbness and other sensations; taste/smell=smells and tastes; elementary visual=bright lights, visual blurring; warm=warmth over the trunk; elementary auditory=tinnitus; confusion=mixed-up thoughts).

What fascinates me is how many of these "epileptic aura" symptoms are common also in DID, just prior switching or when switching is being blocked.

Wikpedia: Aura (disambiguation page)
Wikpedia: Abdominal aura

Hi una,

I get migraines where my temporal lobes go into mega-overdrive (yes, MEGA overdrive!)

At low levels of overdrive I do experience these auras. All of 1-3 I experience as I become hypersensitive to my surroundings.

At medium levels I experience deja vu and stuff like that, and then at high levels I experience out of body experiences, religious experiences and hallucinations.

My most vivid hallucination was falling off of a mountain, and I literally felt the cold mountain air passing through me, I felt acceleration due to gravity more and more... It was exhilarating yet terrifying!

I guess I mention all of this because dissociation causes migraines and these phenomena for me. Especially blocked dissociation or inner conflict like you've mentioned.

One explanation to me is that, in order for dissociation to operate mechanically, you do have to have a very strong awareness of what is going on around you to protect yourself and hide. Trying to take in the level of information to do this could result in a hypersensitivity based feedback loop.

So the set of phenomena you describe here are very synonymous to temporal lobe hyperactivity to me - what you get in spades with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Maybe there is a link between dissociation and temporal lobe activity?

hi people,

I have two threads of thought in this post the first is SPIRITUALISUM AND THE AURA and the second thread is 'PRE-SWITCH AURA'

O and this thought - where any post with the word disambiguate in the title was always going to be a discussion thread and never one with an definitive answer. This not just because of the word but because of the subject matter.


I went to a spiritualist sunday school type thing when i was in my late teens so about 18/19. Here is a link that gives you the basics. http://www.snu.org.uk/spiritualism/principles It is relavent to this topic because reading auras is like reading the sunday papers for a spirtualist. An important even that should be well practiced


I was shown in class how to see an aura by looking past a persons physcial body and into there soul. To feel the pulsating of there heart and yours as one and let that radiate and bleed into colours. There is contrversey as to what colours there are in the auru but i believe if i person feels them then they are there, who is one person to tell me or you that i am wrong or you are wrong? There is also controvercy over what the colours mean. However we were taught to look at these bleeding colours and watch the shapes that they makes and observe just as we would a portrait painting. We would then create a painting of drawing of a persons aura. The colours and there meanings were directly interpretated by the see'er/ the person that witnessed and drew the aura. The reason for this is because knowledge is past down from ancesters and so we had previous lessons about colour theory and looked at images and the colours and shapes and the things the past see'er said about those persons aura but we were encouraged to talk from our heart, from our soul.

Seeing these peoples aura's was a way of saying a just took a photo of the things you dont know about yourself. Here you go.

Even b4 i went to the school/ church i saw these aura's i felt this just helped me tune my rayda.


Pre-Switch Aura

I used to think it was my head when i hadnt eaten enough or to much or drank to little or every excuse i have ever thought of to make me feel better about losing myself! lol or as what is now known to us as switching.

So to us we have a black and white aura around our own body and see our alter side step slighty in or out of it!!! Our body is wobbly and almost stuck and our head prior to this has a pre-migrane thump, fuzz above the left eye. Happens every day.


So, as far as being able to interpretate what an aura is;

I believe an aura is a representital clinpse of a persons momentary state of conscious.

At this moment in time I do any way

Jake

Totally loved what you wrote Jake!!!

I tried and I think I got to see my sister's, but ain't sure.

I usually get to see a yellow "aura" around a persons body. I'm not sure what that is, but it's always yellow.

I'm gonna keep training this hability.

Thank you Jake.

Sea

thanks sea

Regarding seeing your sisters aura - we say go with your gut! guts are always right unles you have a doggy one, then what ever comes out of it just aint right and you should use bleech!

lol- that started off Jake and then went to river!!

go aura practice go!