Sounds Spooky like you see a lot more than me.
I see auras with my eyes open, but it helps to squint a little - the lady who runs the Gateway programmes in Europe caught me sizing up her aura a couple of years ago and figured what I was up to. We had a good laugh, as did the group.
It starts as a shimmering band of almost invisible white light surrounding the person and sometimes physical objects, but can become so intense that it blocks vision.
I often get light effects when meditating eyes open beyond this. Occasionally it's almost like a golden rain, more frequently a sort of ethereal white light that suffuses the view. This can occasionally intensify so that normal vision starts to be obscured by the light, and to close down into a small central area where I can still see. It's never quite blinked out completely, I've wondered what would happen if it did.
The chakra (?) I described before only happened once while I was being worked on by a spiritual healer, it was totally surreal in that it was eyes open and what felt like 100% normal consciousness. In that case the room became suffused with a pinkish light, this seems to start to rotate and gathered itself up into what looked like an incandescent pink/violet football sitting at eye level or a bit above about 3ft in front of me. It slowly faded after a few minutes.
Other times it can feel like my awareness has shifted away into something else - there's this connected feeling. Or a feeling of being loved. (focus 15 as I presume it is feels like that to me)
If I get especially into the vibe like say late in a week's retreat then I don't need to meditate to get it and the colours start to emerge and I can detect differences in the type of aura on different people. Some for example expand out quite a long way, others are very tight, shimmery and compressed.
I can also in this state feel the limit of the energy of the aura with my hands, and as before sometimes develop a mild psyco kinetic ability. (ability to influence physical stuff like some lights, or divining rods used by others) It becomes possible to remote view too, but the 'picture' tends to be grainy and not sharply defined.
Closing my eyes while meditating produces a silky black backround, with ever stronger light effects very similar to what happens eyes open as I get deeper in.
I'm not good at conventional or 'real seeming' visuals - they do arise at times but I tend often to click out, or else nothing appears. This state seems very subtle, very close to sleep for me, and can involve states of consciousness varying from what feels like being a third party observer, to real life, to playing like a movie but having no control over the plot.
All in all I'm unsure what the various light effects are about. Despite the 'feelgood' effect there's even times when I get cynical and wonder if it's not the result of some subtle but physical brain state triggered by meditation...