DKY:
although Bruno you're an energy veteran, right? am i making sense
Well, actually, no, I'm not :-) I do have a very active energy system, or, let's say, looking at things from the energetic perspective was what made more sense to me so far. I tend to think in terms of flows, blockages, and I have had some direct evidence that the condition of the energy body relates directly to perceptive and cognitive abilities.
So while I know what you mean when you say you felt "love flowing out of you" or "out from someone else," as I have had similar experiences, my guess is that what actually happens is someone looks as though, or tells you that, he/she is feeling/channeling love to you, is that you readily generate, within your own body, what that "would feel like."
It might actually be more complicated than this, since there do seem to be odd sensibilities "at a distance" --- such as feeling someone is looking at you from behind, which is a surprisingly well studied ability, or the sensation of someone's hand interfering with your energy body without actually touching you. But what exactly is happening (is it an electro-magnetic field thing? is it just imagination?) needs more thorough research, imho.
Which is not to say that playing with energy body stuff (emanating love and whatnot) shouldn't be done --- it's all well and fun, and seems to have actual physiological implications for one's health. My only point is that just because you see, in your visual field, an "aura of love," that doesn't mean this aura is anywhere beyond your own visual cortex.
But you can make an experiment: just look at a random person in the street (maybe someone who's sitting down for a while), and actively imagine that there is love flowing out of this person's heart into you. I suspect that if you hone this practice, you will eventually be able to do it with anyone in a relatively short amount of time. If that does happen, doesn't it mean it was always your imagination all along?