Journalist Christopher Stevens claims that his deceased father contacted him in a vivid dream, which he believes constitutes proof of an afterlife. Stevens, writing for the Daily Mail, describes hearing his father's unmistakable voice on the phone a month after his death from bone cancer. The conversation, which occurred during a holiday in Majorca, included a characteristic joke about the afterlife not being Catholic.
Stevens says the experience was not an ordinary dream, but a clear after-death communication (ADC). He notes that thousands of people have reported similar phenomena, citing studies. The journalist recalls his father's exact words and humor, which he could not have invented consciously.
Stevens's mother, Sylvia, who suffered from vascular dementia, died two days after he returned from holiday. He has not yet heard from her in a dream, but expects to see her again, imagining her first words will be 'I was just about to call you.'
