I have another one for the OP....have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue? You know the word, but you can't bring it to mind. You're aware of something specific that you can't even define, not yet anyway. How can you know something that you can't even think of? It's almost like a feeling, but there's no emotion or judgment. Then, all of a sudden, you wake up in the middle of the night & you know the word. It's like your mind was searching while you were doing other stuff. Maybe you read/heard/saw something, and it triggered that word, because that word would summarize everything very well, turning it into a concept that helps you see these things in a larger context.
Intuition can be like that. You focus on these intangible pieces of info that cannot be articulated, & it's often indirectly inspired by external experience/info. It's like they're on the tip of your tongue, and your mind is working in the background to convert it into something comprehensible to even you. However, with intuition, these "words" are information or insights that you didn't know you even knew; often it's because they amount to new ideas. They seem to come out of nowhere in that way. Perceptions come to intuitives like this. The tangible world is absorbed almost indirectly, passively, and their mind is focused on articulating some concept or possible explanation which will sum it all up so well.
So imagine if that whole time you were focused & aware of how the word was emerging in your mind. The intuitive is more aware of these background processes because its their preferred process. This is where the dreamy side comes about; the person is focusing on articulating a mental concept in their head, not the tangible stuff around them. Or, they will want to pull in others to articulate it (Ne-dom mainly), and basically shoot ideas back & forth until it emerges clearly. Just as when you're trying to articulate that word on the tip of your tongue, you may ask people stuff to help you figure it out, to confirm that is the word you want. The pursuit of possibilities is the visible manifestation of someone trying to articulate the idea. Doesn't it drive you nuts when you have a word on the tip of your tongue? This is why Ne is associated with being restless, spontaneous, fickle even. They're jumping from thing to thing in pursuit of finding something, something they can't even define.
So next time you have a word on the tip of your tongue, make a conscious effort to explore the various connections between things which led to that word. Bring in seemingly irrelevant info, see how it connects to what you know inspired this word, and then as a "big picture" forms, the word may all of a sudden pop out. Everyone does this of course, but it's an illustration of how using intuition can feel. It's like a little glimpse, a way to simulate it & flex it a bit.