One neurologist has shockingly revealed that she has been communicating with her dead husband every day for years, and it has left people astonished as she explains her experience.
While there are a number of biological oddities that keep parts of our body 'living' for a short while after you die – to the point where you're likely to hear something horrifying moments before passing away – death is ultimately the end point, even though some have technically returned to life after their pulse stopped.
Some have held theories that they're able to communicate with the dead, with mediums and psychics existing for centuries now as a supposed pathway between the living and the afterlife, but it's certainly an intriguing approach when a world-leading neuroscientist proposes how she's managed to communicate with her own dead husband.
Speaking to Steven Bartlett on a new episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast, Dr Tara Swart has revealed that the experience she has had following her husband's passing has allowed her to actively communicate with him, and it is in part due to an engagement of the body's '34 senses'.
When did she start communicating with her husband?
As shared on YouTube, Dr Swart revealed that her communications with her husband appeared to begin around six weeks after he has passed away from Leukemia, as she saw an his apparition by her bed.
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"So I opened my eyes, and I could see next to my bed a very vague hazy version of Robin as if he was pushing himself through treacle to be seen, and I was just transfixed, and I could see him become more and more clear, I could see the outline of his hair and his face, but he suddenly just dissolved from the top down," Dr Swart recalled.
She then experienced extreme bodily reactions shortly after, to the point where she claimed to even feel the cold that her husband had felt in the morgue despite her actual home being extremely warm.
How does the communication work?
When it comes to the actual communications that she has had with her husband though they have been more suggestive, although she remains utterly convinced that it is indeed her dead partner that she's able to speak to.
"Either it will be that I'll ask a question in my mind and the answer will come in my mind but I know it's not my own thought, or I'll get a direct message from him in my mind that I know isn't from me, but mostly it's the signs," she explained.
She details a moment around the second anniversary of her husband's death where she had asked for 'signs' of a phoenix to appear, linking it to her own recovery from his death that could have been the end of her own life had she not had the support of friends and family.
During a trip to America she would frequently pass a restaurant called 'Phoenix Garden' which had a big image of the fiery bird on its sign, and she also saw her flight unexpectedly routed through Phoenix, Arizona on the way to Los Angeles.
Barlett understandably wondered whether this is simply a case of confirmation bias, where she was able to spot details that aligned with her desires that would have simply been there otherwise in a normal situation.
In response, Dr Swart asserted that "the number of times that this has happened, how narrow I make the criteria," makes it always being down to confirmation bias an unlikely scenario.
"Sometimes I say, 'I need to see a button, or a symbol of a button, or the word button, but it's got to happen three times by 11 pm tomorrow'," so fitting into that exact criteria seemingly proves that she is indeed able to communicate with her husband, despite it perhaps not being through conventional means.