I've always been able to see them, but I've gotten better at picking up what's there to be picked up as I've gotten older. Looking at an aura is a little like looking at a page of print; you might catch a few words in a passing glance, but you have to pause and focus to read what's there to be read. Or at least, I do. [She snorts, shaking her head.] Spent a lot of time in libraries as a kid trying to find something, anything on auras that meshed for me, but no dice.