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The only way Asahi knows it is Amon is puppeteering his body and not Fandaniel is if he was able to watch the events unfolding from Shadowbringers to Endwalker the entire time.
Can’t believe I have to explain myself, but if you’re dead and you’re able to watch events play out or even interact with things, you’re a ghost. You’re not in the Lifestream. There’s plenty of examples in the game already.

If you’re in the Lifestream, your soul is in the process of being washed away but it’s explained there that those with strong wills can maintain their sense of self for a time. But considering the whole point is to wash the soul for reuse, I highly doubt there’s an “afterlife tv” where they can watch things and there’s no concrete evidence of such.

Considering Asahi is extremely intact unlike his Garlean compatriots we encounter who EE3 describes as soul fragments, Asahi probably was haunting Fandaniel the whole time and chased him into the Lifestream and that’s how I understood it at the time as well. Emet-Selch himself only actually went to the Lifestream to take a soul cleanse at the very end of EW and we know he’s been hovering around.