Hi all. thanks for the long story Vicki I got into it also. Rick, my mother called out my name also and she's still in physical, but I was just drifting to sleep, not at the computer. I think when someone is wondering strongly about another person, you can have little antannae in the head picks up the signal. I knew my mom's voice and the spiritualists call this clairaudience where you can hear them.
I think a lot of us from time to time hear our name called. most times I don't know who it is, but this time I knew it was my mother as she can get a real sharp edge to her voice; made me jump a few feet out of bed, lol. she had a definite message. wanted me to know she was cool about the troubles we'd had and was ok with moving back to calif. I told her she was doing good to send me her wave length this way, said I didn't know she was so talented! saw a smile on her face in my mind. I didn't get this in verbal, but sometimes a tone of voice says a lot also, and you have a knowing communication is taking place without the sentence structure, with just a tone and a visual of a smile. good enough. we can get better at this! I still want to give up the telephone someday!