Niles H.

One role that has been discussed for intuition is: not free camping in a place where you 'just have that feeling' that it isn't safe.

But there may be a number of other possible (unexplored and unutilized) roles as well, though.d

I've had premonitional intuitions while on tour that turned out to be quite true or valid.

And some people think that dreams can be premonitionally true -- not all dreams, but some of them. Some cultures have used them much more than others.

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Another role is in guiding the tour or the itinerary. Some people tour serendipitously, or just go 'where the wind blows.' They wake up in the morning and just go where they feel like going. This is their way of touring, and they enjoy it.

Where to go could be based on the toss of a coin, or on some 'sign' or a whim or a stray thought.

Or it could be guided by dreams and intuitions.

Someone described a similar approach as "just following one's nose moment to moment."

I've tried that one a bit, and it can be very interesting and enjoyable and spontaneous. And I wonder if it can be expanded to taken further, or explored more deeply or tested out more thoroughly.

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The intuitional drive to take off on a long tour is itself something that some people listen to and act on, and others ignore or leave festering on some shelf in their minds.

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Some people think that dreams cannot be premonitional -- that premonitional dreams are a myth. But there is some very clear evidence that they can be quite true or accurate or worth listening to, or that they are (at times at least) trying to tell you something useful or beneficial or important. Or that they may lead you to something. Maybe they are legitimate forms of communication from some deeper source beyond intellect, or beyond the usual forms of 'more rational' thinking. An athlete, Sugar Ray Robinson, had a strikingly true premonitional dream one night before a fight. It was exactly right, and he even tried to act on it -- but he allowed some psychologists and priests to talk him out of it (very tragically, it turned out), when they were brought in to convince him that "it was just a dream, Ray."

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As I see it, dreams reflect the thought processes of a different part of the brain/mind, dealing with the same things that the conscious brain/mind deals with. In so doing, the unconscious mind will probably be less rational than the conscious mind, but may take different 'facts' into account, possibly including something you have seen but not consciously registered. So nocturnal dreams extend and sometimes elaborate on daytime concerns. For example, after I got a bike with an aluminum frame and fork, I worried about the aluminum. I even dreamed that the aluminum fork just broke off when I hit a bump. But in reality, after 7000 miles on that bike (it's my commuter) that has never happened. All kinds of things go wrong with that bike, including a broken frame (a nuisance, but it didn't cause an accident). The fork is fine (so far). I'm pretty sure my dream was just a reflection on the old Lambert/Viscount "death fork" that was known to fail without warning with sometimes catastrophic results.

So... sure, a dream may be telling you something. It's hard to know what, though.