Auras in mysticism and synaesthesia: a comparison.
Consciousness and Cognition March 1, 2012 E G Milán, O Iborra, M Hochel et al. 15 citations
In a variety of synaesthesia, photisms result from affect-laden stimuli as emotional words, or faces of familiar people. For R, who participated in this study, the sight of a familiar person triggers a mental image of "a human silhouette filled with colour". Subjective descriptions of synaesthetic experiences induced by the visual perception of people's figures and faces show similarities with...