The Healing Journey

May 27, 2026

Modern research offers evidence that what is known as “after-death communication” is more than wishful thinking and occurs in a large percentage of the population.

An analysis by Jenny Street-Horn, PhD, LPC-S of the University of Texas of 35 studies that involved more than 50,000 people concluded that one third reported having an “after-death communication,” which she defined as “a spontaneous phenomenon in which a living person has a feeling or sense of direct contact with a deceased person.”

She described the different types of reputed ADCs, which include “visual, auditory, sense of presence, olfactory, dream, symbolic (a song or butterfly), deathbed visions (nearing-death awareness) and telephone.” The most reported type of communication involved dreams, which are described as “sleep communications” because those who had them said they were “more real than typical dreams.”

People in the studies were of both sexes, grieving and not, of all ages, nationalities and ethnicities, education levels, incomes and religious affiliations.

Street-Horn said, “People usually find ADC to be beneficial, using descriptive words like pleasant, positive, mystical, serene, elating, helpful, comforting, healing and spiritual.”

“Most ADCers report that as a result of the ADC, they feel reassured and comforted that the deceased continues to exist — and in a state of well being and happiness.” And that the relationship which existed between them before still continues even though both have been transformed.

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