I did finally reach my mother and heard her voice through psychic Chris Fleming, whom Dave Shraeder knows and is friends with (through a spirit box with her voice coming through clear over the phone)...
This kind of communication IS real.
A year after a family member passed I woke up in the middle of the night bolt upright after I heard their voice call to me through the ether in a very crackling radio transmission manner.
No dream this, not even close.