
maybe it's all immaterial, good one Bets!
we are changeable creatures, no doubt about that. I'm not who I was yesterday even, so we can assume a perception is always a partial view as well the colors we might see, as the aura are a shifting thing due to whatever a person is thinking, feeling, experiencing in their C1 life at the time.
then we get into this quandary, that since it's a partial view, it cannot be a real location, as only real locations can be physical.

maybe thats why a collection of journeys is good to file away for easy reference later, as it could put a piecing piece together with another journey of partial reality.
to come back to your initial question and sharing; heres my input how I see others out there, the same, usually from this board, but occassionally from my life outside of this board, like clients, neighbors, other forums, etc.
I don't think I've ever seen others as simply light beings like you do, with the energy signature.
rather I see their actual face and occassionally hear their actual tone of voice and this relays to me their identity signature. later, if they are someone I just met, I can attain a photo and see if the image was correct. this does not mean to be 100% effective, as some assume a desirable form body when surfing around, when you look at a picture, it's not them, but you are certain that it was their energy signature because in the interaction of the dialogue the same things discussed were things discussed on the forum.
also there is my pattern of observing body language out there to perceive that as a valid communication. this is even better for me, because theres no mistaking it's them, as their energy signature conveys this is the way they would move or act in person, in C1.
just a knowing, like putting one and one together, a bunch of perceptions that fit together as a signature.
I must admit I'm perplexed by the body language though. I think the need for it arises as articulating language out there is difficult if not downright impossible at times. I think language is basically an invention for C1 brain communication.
yet some movements I see just don't compute. no comprendo. nada. but still I remember, and I file it away for later reference.
most of my excursions I'm sorry to say are still involuntary, like my strings are being pulled again. except in PE, thats total C1 and intentional probing thing.
yet both are yielding value and expanding awareness.
I frequently see all of us, or am aware of all of us during my sleep periods, standing around yapping about things that happen on this board, as if it were a real station in the astral and the notation is that yes, things are happening on this board and discussed in another location, where insight is more accessible and PUL is also felt in greater measure out there. If I wake up happy, something has happened!
waking up happy is almost a habit by now.
love, alysia