The dicyanin screen was developed and invented by Dr. Walter John Kilner in 1911. He was an early explorer of the phenomena of auras, and he wanted to see them with his naked eye. The dicyanin screen uses two pieces of glass with dicyanin dye in between them. Dicyanin dye is a product of coal tar. He also created goggles that he could wear. He wanted to learn to diagnose illness in the aura before it showed up physically in the human body.

The method for using these screens is to stare for a few minutes through them at a bright light. When the eyes are then turned to look at the human aura, it would be visible. Kilner used different colors for these screens in order to see different layers or color spectrums of the aura. He used these different colored goggles in order to see those particular auric pairs. We will discuss this in a moment, but in short, the opposite of the color being viewed through the goggles would be the color that could be seen in the aura. The dicyanin screen temporarily disables the rods and the cones of the retina as pertains to certain colors so the opposite can be seen.

When I first heard about the dicyanin screen, or goggles, and I was a beginner, I wanted to own a pair immediately! However, they are nowhere to be found. It turns out that although they do work, they cause much discomfort to the eyes. People have reported burning, soreness, and blurriness of vision. Kilner cautions that the dicyanin screen must not be used more often than a few minutes at a time, for prolonged sensitization will interfere with normal vision, and the ability to see the aura is also diminished. A short exposure of only a few minutes lasts for 2-4 weeks, and doesn't have to be used every time one is looking at an aura. Eventually the dicyanin screen is not even necessary.

No one knows for sure whether or not the dicyanin screen might cause permanent damage, although there are no cases of this yet, most likely because no one wants to be the test subject as to whether one loses their eyesight or not. This is possibly why no companies manufacture these instruments and sell them, for one could imagine the kind of lawsuits that could follow. If a person wants a pair of these, one must build them personally.

Kilner did report, despite the discomfort to his eyesight, that after a few months of using the goggles, he developed the vision necessary to see the aura and gained the ability to see the aura with the naked eye, using no assistance from the dicyanin screen. He describes what he saw in his book, a rare and difficult book to find, The Human Aura (1965).

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