What does channel positive / negative energy actually look like when used?

[Yqatuba]

I picture positive looking like a flash of white light with a slight golden tint, and negative looking like a black cloud that only appears for a second or so.

[Dajur]

I always pictured a ripple of light or dark energy radiating outwards from the caster. Like a water droplet causing ripples in a 30' ring. When the positive energy touches someone, it surrounds the person with a warm glow with light streaks moving upwards for a moment, either healing or hurting them. When negative energy touches someone, it surrounds them with a dark gray light with black streaks moving upwards. Now that I think about it, the effect looks like healing in a JRPG game. I think that Pathfinder Kingmaker did a pretty good job with some of the AOE spell effects.

[Oli Ironbar]

Positive heal: everyone gasps a breath and has a second wind.

Negative damage: everyone is like Luke Skywalker being electrocuted at the end of VI, only without the blue lightning.

Positive damage: everything melts like the faces at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

Negative heal: black mists pour from eyes and mouths and fills in various wounds.

These seem to my imagination the correct description. But that is me.

[Yqatuba]

What if you use positive damage to hurt a skeleton (which doesn't have a face)? I'm thinking it's skull just sort of caves in?

[crashcanuck]

Positive damaging undead I picture yellow electricity running over them and some convulsions from pain.

[Isaac Zephyr]

The holy symbol glows brightly and a flash of *deity's favorite colour here* radiates out in a swift burst.

[Set]

Yqatuba wrote:

I picture positive looking like a flash of white light with a slight golden tint, and negative looking like a black cloud that only appears for a second or so.

I pondered something more on-theme for the god who was providing the channeling ability.

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

White sparkles for positive, dark static that seems to draw in light rather than create it for negative.

[David knott 242]

I have always gone with living creatures feeling good when someone channels positive energy and feeling some degree of pain and loss of energy when someone channels negative energy.

[Yqatuba]

@Set: Your post is awesome. I am wondering what would the channeling (positive) of an Arshea worshipper look like?