I keep journals, which I (sometimes) illustrate with what I see. This is from one of my journals.
The top is the appearance of a deceased person's spirit still 'on this side' as an orb. I can say that with confidence because I was called to work with this particular person's spirit later (when they asked for help crossing over - another story), and I'd not long woken from a 'working dream' where I had met them. (It is a rule -for me at least - that in dream state I cannot see the deceased who have 'crossed over' - I can be in their presence, but they will remain out of sight).
I sat in the dark watching the orb streak past as they took their leave.
The lower picture is how I see the signature 'wake' in the air afterwards, turbulent and wavy. It's like looking through a kelp forest in a storm.
