You probably have less noise going on because you are more relaxed and therefore can hear the Holy Spirit talking to you more. He talks to us alot, just like the time of Adam and Eve through the work of Jesus on the cross we have been bought back to that relationship with him. He walked and talked with them then and does the same with us now but it is even better now because he is in us.
This may sound weird but actually did happen to me a few years ago. It was a particularly bad time. There was alot of conflict with us kids and my father. My mum had passed away many years before that and Dad had just been taken to hospital and was going to be dying soon. I was in the family house and I was washing the dishes looking out of the big window into the backyard feeling very despondent to say the least. I simply just said the words Jesus because I had no other words.
Suddenly I somehow saw Jesus in the backyard bending down attending to the grass. As soon as I called his name he immediately stopped what he was doing in the yard and zoomed to me. It took nano seconds for him to get from where he was in the backyard to me and he was standing next to me. I somehow so all of this in my mind. I can't really explain it. As he stood next to me I could hear him breathing. Of course I freaked out a little because not because I felt anything negative or bad but simply because I had not experienced that sort of thing before. What I got from that experience is that when we call out to the Lord he hears us and comes immediately. No questions asked, he drops what he is doing and comes immediately to us. Often we don't feel that in fact we cry out "where are you Lord, don't you care" but for that particular incidence he showed me I guess in the spirit what actually happens when we call out to him. I have to remind myself of that all the time.