And I'll still maintain, in any case, that there is a "real thing", and something which is probably never seen at a Church service BTW. Historically the Church has recognized the possibility, and, indeed, the actuality, of "private revelations". The Church has no need or reason to rule on their veracity since only the "public revelation", once and for all delivered to us via the incarnation of Jesus Christ, is considered crucial and takes absolute precedence. Any other insight or theory or teaching can never contradict or supersede that revelation.
And yet God can and does communicate with His people, and when those communications are direct and overt from the receiver's perspective, they are called private revelations. They are relatively rare, never given for trivial reasons but always for the purpose of advancing God's kingdom in some way or another, perhaps by encouraging, clarifying, sometimes giving specific instructions, all for God's purposes according to His wisdom, and at His discretion, not ours. He doesn't give them to those who would boast about them or try to use them for their own benefit or would bury them, unused at all. People who receive these experiences are very cautious about speaking about them any any case, knowing the various receptions they may be faced with. Often the experience isn't meant to be spoken of anyway but has the purpose of bolstering that particular person's faith and capability and willingness to serve in some manner.
They can be visions or "locutions", direct impressions or infusions of thought, but given word for word in the receiver's understood language. These latter experiences are profoundly different from ordinary communications with another person because they are received and known directly by the intellect; no sensory input is necessary. And yet they're exactly like communications between two people, in that the sense that we're being communicated to by another person, outside of ourselves, is absolute. The words and thoughts are simply not the receiver's words and thoughts; the awareness of the other's presence is inescapable. These are totally different in kind from dreams or hunches or wishful thinking, or from more common ways that God may communicate: by awakening us to a meaning of a Scripture verse, or giving us callings or urges and promptings and desires to help others, or to seek or serve Him in a new way, etc.
These private revelations may leave a person unable to remain standing because of the ineffable profundity of the experience and the awareness of Whose presence the receiver is in (a knowledge which is part and parcel of the experience itself). And yet, orchestrated by God as they are, they'll never occur at some inopportune or awkward moment.