I can buy anything with bitcoins and even I can send money to my friends and family using bitcoins so its a real money for me and there is no difference in it and real money as ultimately its giving us an source of income in digital form.
The thing is if we can use it as mode of payment then it is money. Anything that is accepted as payment is considered as money, regardless of its state, either digital or physical. But there are only limited countries consider Bitcoin as payment, I hope there is more and more country to acknowledge Bitcoin as money the same way Japan recognizes Bitcoin.
We want that other countries should start following Japan and if that happens then bitcoin will become more popular and powerful currency and it will surely take its price to the moon but I think it will take long way for that to happen.