I don't find it that very desciptive of how it is to experience an aura. I think a more precise description would be to imagine looking at a very colourfull patcwork under stong sunlight for a minute or two. The aura acts like the "after-image" on your retina being superimposed on what you see. It is kind of there and not there at the same time, and not something stationary you can focus on. Another peculiar phenomenom is that your periferal vision just vanishes at the same time. It does not go black, it just does no longer exist. It is like the way you cannot see what is behind your head, but you do not see your head as a black obstacle, that part of the world is just simply not seen.

I think everyone's experience with aura is different. I get a thing where my hearing suddenly becomes a lot more sensitive and then I get an aura that looks like television static, but my sister sees blinking lights.

Mine never looked like that. It was more like sparkles flickering on and off, like fireworks. Sometimes, my vision went entirely dark and I couldn't see at all.

I have these all the time

while it's nice that they are trying to show how people experience those conditions it's impossible to display the full spectrum in this picture. There are so many different manifestations of an aura - for me it's the white colours that start to shift/wiggle at first, followed by blind spots in my vision where objects/letters just disappear.

Yup that's me. But the blindness is not with those sharp lines. My whole vision just dissapears on one side.

Actually the aura is a lot like pins & needles, but for your eyes, and only on a specific spot that can move around

It is horrible and doesnt leave the field of vision!

my dad has ocular migraines, which are the aura sort of effect without pain, and i had a single incident where i had something like this. i suddenly had a crescent-shaped area in my vision that just wasn't there. as jon steensen says, it's not black, it's just not there. it lasted about fifteen minutes and then everything was fine.

I have that, but no migraine? I thought it was just another thing people did and had no idea most people don't see the "spots" when they look at the sun until I asked my brother. Can someone please tell me what it is?

Mine was a scintillating, neon-green donut that I couldn't see arounnd. No pain, but I felt a little washed out after it passed.

Always.

I get frequent migraines with aura. No description really covers exactly what it's like.

Aura looks nothing like this for me, most of the lower half of the photo would be black with shiny rainbow edges. Spots across the rest, very much like what you see after staring into the sun or after a flash from a camera, only more spots, less vision and it lasts for at least half an hour. Harbinger of pain.

Mine is like these zig-zags, but partly see through just distorted or with flashes like old TV static. Also the gray area is simply extra blurry.

I have this. I know a migraine is coming when my side vision has that aura.

Not even close to what it actually is.

I see those zig-zaggy artifacts from time to time, and have read them characterized as "visual migraines" which is strange because I've never had a migraine headache in my life.

Oh yeah, it's like really, really weird bright and strange.

Yes! This is exactly it, except my aura zigzag is not static -- it pulses and strobes.

My vision does this but without any initial pain. Only the squiggle starts in a square pattern and eventually covers more and more of my vision. The first time I experienced this was at work and I won't lie, it scared the crap out of me. Just knew I was experiencing a stroke or something.

I have these if I'm at risk to get a migraine. Sometimes I can head off the pain, pun intended.

My aura is more like an army of little specks marching across my view.

I have had migraines since I was a kid. Most of the time, there is a visual aura. Can't speak for anyone else, but it looks absolutely nothing like this

I hate the blind spots. They usually come before the pain.

I have these since I was 12! Anxiety causes it to me. The pain used to be excruciating, now it is milder but for a couple of days I feel like my brain is shaken and I cannot concentrate.

Me. I have so much myopia that I cant really read without glasses or even recognice nyself in the mirror without them (obviously i know that its me but i cant see it)

I wonder how a dyslexic person would see the second one...

"Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven."

as someone that has this one... i'm not sure if the inset is the full color, or the skewed one

I am trying to imagine what nothing looks like.

or when i let my friends try on my glasses. "HoW cAn YoU sEe WiTh ThEse??"

I have astigmatisms in both my eyes and I don't have the distorted, just blurry. That photo is still not blurry enough for me when I don't have my glasses on lol

For all the people saying that this is cute, maybe it adds nice aesthetic to one picture, but would you really want live you life seeing this the entire time??

I have this and it gets worse if i'm tired or have a fibro flare up. Looking at anything with close stripes is a nightmare and really hurts my head and eyes. Sometimes the edges of things look like they have faint motion lines like you would see in a cartoon when something is drawn to look like it's shaking.

That makes me sad. :/

One of my friends has this and that's why he always wear black and white outfits only, otherwise he could look ridiculous to other people.

Sheldon kind of explained it perfectly. The things that bother him sensory wise is like an itchy sweater on your brain that you can't scratch and can't ignore.

I have visual snow (found out after talking to my eye doctor this year and she said it was my brain and not my eyes). Mine doesn't quite look like that, think an out of tune tube TV. Where you can see the show and the color but there is static everywhere. It makes it really hard to see in the dark too. If you're curious about it look it up, it's crazy how uncommon it is.

You get so tired in your head.....

I heard that this is not a disease and people with synesthesia are good in certain tests of memory.

It's not like that though... (don't have it but I know about it). It's just that they don't notice/remember the subtle differences that make a face stand out from others.

I have visual snow, and I guess it's different for everyone because the first two pictures with the ripples I don't see, but the third picture it pretty much what I see.

sheesh I didn't realise this was a thing, I thought I was just broken

Easy to remove these days

Not saying that it would be cool to always see like this, but the first picture actually looks nice.