Anna - It wasn't a dream, but using intuition while awake because my lovely plant was dying.
(Silly me again Anna - you are quite right).
Dreamtime - I think the whole thing is understandable when you realise that our brain is a master translator. To quote from Inner World, " Science says that the outer world we are so certain is the real world, is not so solidly real as we believe. To quote a recent report, “Color, for instance: That azalea outside the window may look red to you, but in reality it has no color at all. The red comes from certain properties of the azalea that absorb some kinds of light and reflect other kinds of light, which are then received by the eye and translated in our brains into a subjective experience of red. And sounds, too: Complex vibrations in the air are soundless in reality, but our ears are able to translate the vibrations into a car alarm or a cat’s meow".
As for how it felt, it was a mass of almost formless impression which gradually clarified. But it took place nearly thirty years ago, so I quoted it from my journal, and so I am only reporting my impressions of it being formless.
But how it all began - the intuition - is reported in
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/After using LifeStream for a year I had a fluid response physically, emotionally, and vocally I tried using it as an aid in understanding particular questions important to me. I found that whatever I sought to understand I received a response to. Sometimes it was very little, sometimes full and helpful.
Over the years I found there are particular ways of working with this possibility that are helpful. Firstly your body, emotions and mind need to be capable of responding easily. Only in this way is it possible for what is held within yourself to express to consciousness.
Something I have seen which often frustrates the creative potential of LifeStream is an attitude linked with being gullible. Let me take the example of someone I will call Sally. Sally has gained a good degree of mobility in allowing a spontaneous response. Whatever arises however, she neatly fits into her preconceived ideas. At no time does she say, ‘I don’t understand what that was about.’ This is like me saying to Sally, ‘The other day I met someone and I immediately disliked them.” So Sally says, ‘Oh, that must be because you knew each other in a past life.’ That doesn’t bring any insight to me, and although I want to explore the event to find an understanding which I can observe to fit what happened, Sally closes herself to any further communication. In this way Sally makes her sessions of LifeStream say just whatever she wants them to say.
Within the practice of LifeStream there is a way of asking advice from what is really your massive unconscious - see
http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/edgar-cayce-and-the-cosmic-mind-superminds/ - Once your body and mind has been freed of a mass of inner problems, tensions and preconceptions, you can ask for any sort of information as Cayce did. At first the response may be physical but it gradually become like a waking lucid dream, in which you gain and understand what is presented.
Tony