Ways to talk to spirits?

while asleep. Try dream work or even astral projection. When awake you can try meditation, divination (scrying, ouiji, card reading might even help), you can also try what I call paper channeling (which I'm sure has a actual name but I never researched into it) where you ask the spirit to talk to you on paper, using your hand to write their answers.

Contacting him when I'm awake is no problem at all. I can do it with very little to no effort. And I know his full name. I just figured that the name wasn't necessary for the post

I want to be able to do it at night while asleep. That way we could spend more time together.