I have to agree, though I hadn't thought it through in terms of what I went through way back when.
It feels like it's been so long, I'd forgotten...lesson learned

But, "Coming into your own" I remember that from the R.R. dream you posted. That sums up about what came through for me when I read your dream.
I didn't always fully accept what happens w/me in terms of intuition/flashes, etc. I didn't know, at first what I had, then actually went as far as self-sabotage and being angry w/God for making me such a "freak."
It was difficult to be positive in anything while you're fighting your natural state of being. If I remember...ya, I pretty much just wanted to die. I always felt like being on the outside of one of those snow-globes you shake and the snow falls down.
As human beings, we're all intuitive by design. Some people though have the components still that haven't been wiped out, due to their lack of use.