When we lose a loved one, it’s only natural to think about all the things we might still want to say to that person.

While most of us never get that opportunity, one neuroscientist claims she has found a way to send messages beyond the grave.

Dr Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and former medical doctor, says she communicates with her dead husband every day.

Speaking on the podcast Diary of a CEO, Dr Swart says: ‘It’s possible to communicate with someone who has passed away.

‘It’s taboo because we are afraid that people will think we’re going insane. 

‘I have been part of teams that have involuntarily committed individuals and administered treatments to them, due to expressions resembling my own experiences.’

Dr Swart claims this post-mortem messaging is possible due to what she describes as our ’34 senses’. 

According to the neuroscientist, these expanded sensory abilities allow her to pick up subtle signs sent by dead loved ones. 

Dr. Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and former medical doctor, asserts her ability to connect with her deceased husband daily by utilizing her ’34 senses.’

According to Dr. Swart, communication with her late husband Robin occurs daily since his passing. These visions and signs reportedly began six weeks following his death (stock image).

Dr Swart says that she began to see signs from the dead shortly after her husband, Robin, died of leukaemia. 

‘Even though I’m a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist, I just felt totally lost and broken,’ she said.

‘And then I started seeing robins in the garden every time I went to the window. I’d never ever seen so many robins in my life, not before or since.’

Then, about six weeks after her husband had died, Dr Swart says she had a terrifying experience.

She says: ‘I got woken up by a massive thump on the shoulder. 

‘Upon opening my eyes, I perceived beside my bed a vague, hazy figure of Robin as though he was struggling through a barrier to be seen. Captivated, I watched as he grew clearer, discerning the outline of his hair and face, only for him to abruptly dissolve from top to bottom.’

Believing this to be a message from Robin’s spirit, Dr. Swart sought guidance from various mediums but found their responses lacking.

‘If it is feasible to communicate with the deceased, and he was my husband and best friend, given my focus on enhancing my brain and consciousness, I should be capable of accomplishing this myself,’ she stated.

Dr Swart says she has been receiving signs from her husband, Robin, ever since he passed away in 2021

This is how Dr Swart came to develop her method for ‘communicating’ with her deceased husband. 

Rather than sending and receiving verbal messages, Dr Swart says she ‘asks’ her husband to see a particular sign.

She describes how, at first, she mentally asked to see the sign of a phoenix.

Later, during a trip, she frequently passed a restaurant called the ‘Phoenix Garden’ and had a flight unexpectedly rerouted through Phoenix, Arizona.

However, as podcast host Stephen Bartlett points out, these events can easily be explained through confirmation bias.

This is the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of your existing beliefs.

For example, Phoenix is one of the US’s busiest commercial airports and processes over 1,000 flights every day.

But, although redirecting through Phoenix is extremely likely, Dr Swart is primed to interpret this unrelated and predictable event as evidence for her beliefs. 

Likewise, this habit of looking for a specific sign promotes what psychologists call selective attention, an effect which triggers your brain to subconsciously look for a certain piece of information. 

This means you are much more likely to find a particular pattern in otherwise random data if you are actively looking to find it. 

So, if you are thinking about phoenixes, you are much more likely to find phoenixes even if you aren’t actively looking for them.  

However, Dr Swart believes her method has been rigorously tested.

She says this is because of ‘how narrow I make the criteria’.

‘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”,’ she explained.

Additionally, Dr Swart says that her sensitivity to the full range of human senses allows her to receive messages from the dead more directly.

She added: ‘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.’