Voice from the Afterlife.

Question:

My recently deceased (physically) wife and I found each other late in life and shared 25 years of a deeply loving spiritual connection in our marriage before brain cancer claimed her physical being.  She is present with me more and more throughout each day as I find myself departing my heart-breaking grief to feel her blissful presence.  I of course have happiness in knowing she is within and around me.  I also find humor in feeling the presence of her knowledge about some of my humorous character flaws she was so intuitively attuned to.  Recently while in a sound sleep without any indication of being in a dream, I was awakened by her clearly audible voice sweetly calling my name (once).  I immediately awakened, unconsciously saying, “what” as I suddenly realized what had happened.  Nothing else happened, except that I felt a deep sense of warm contentment from actually evidencing a manifestation of her presence, that was more than just feeling.  So my questions are, have I conceived an unreal reality, I mean can the essence of person’s soul actually speak to someone still in the material world?  Please understand that I am influenced by my “feeling” of eternal love that has inseparably bonded a part of each of our souls.   As a student of nature since my earliest remembrance, I’ve been able meditate while walking in nature, to the point that I am aware of what I am doing, but hours fly by in what seems to be a very brief period of time.   These meditations have brought me peace and a sense of unity with love; thus my life has been a spiritual quest.   A relative call this Carpe Diem.   What are your recommendations for me?   Thank you for your response.