How I reconnected WITH MY DEAD DAD

Nineteen years after he passed away, Julie Cook discovered a way to contact her father

- JULIE COOK

On average it happens a few times a month. I’ll have a dream about someone and something happening to them and then a few days or weeks later, I’ll discover the scenario in my dream happened in real life. It’s always been this way. One night when I was 19 I dreamt of my grandmother being reborn as a baby but with her elderly head. I woke to my university halls of residence landline ringing, went to it and heard my father tell me my gran had died in the night.

Then there was the time I dreamt of a tower with bodies falling from it in graphic detail. A few days later the World Trade Center tragedy happened. I dreamt of my father lying still in a contraption in a wall. That year he started radiotherapy for the cancer that killed him. And on the morning he died, in 2005, I had a strange feeling of everything ‘stopping’ and that I should not get the train to work. He died that morning.

Psychic ability

So, I’ve always felt a little bit psychic. But often I ignore my dreams or feelings, or I forget them. Like the time I had a dream that I should not go down a path. Next morning I went walking and saw this path I had dreamt of. Ignoring my gut instinct I walked down it, only to be flashed at by a man in the bushes. So what use is a tiny nugget of psychic ability if I don’t listen to it or interpret it correctly? And can someone like me be ‘trained’ to get better at it?

I contacted celebrity psychic Inbaal Honigman. Inbaal has been psychic all her life, doing tarot readings from age 20. She’s appeared on Big Brother as the reality TV show’s resident psychic to see who would be voted off. Now she runs courses helping psychics improve their skills. Our first session starts with a Zoom call. Inbaal is bubbly, friendly, personable and tells me that everyone has the ability to be psychic but they need to nurture it.