Auras in mysticism and synaesthesia: A comparison

► Photisms experienced by synaesthetes are idiosyncratic. ► Aura-sensitive people typically agree on the colour of the aura observed. ► Synaesthetes' phenomenological experience is different from that of sensitives and clairvoyants. ► Synaesthesia and the (esoteric) aura are phenomenologically and behaviourally dissimilar.