When I saw what you need, I don't mean consciously, I mean you draw to you what you need to go through based on the state of your energy, and that includes patterns you have not yet broken which can be observed in dreams, etc.
everything that manifests is simply what you put out vibrationally in the strongest and most insistent manner.
So that is what I mean, but not in relation to intentional manifestation, but just what occurs naturally.
Then there is manifestation where you are intentionally and purposefully putting it out there.
Perhaps I'm misreading you though; it sounds as if you are saying that Source knows what my soul contract is and wants to get me on that path, and if I am desiring something that conflicts with that, then some kind of foul up occurs? Not quite sure about that last paragraph.
When I say what we need overrides what we want, I don't mean what we intentionally need, but what we attract naturally based on the things we need to go through in life. So for example, we keep running into the same or similar situations in relationships, yet we want to manifest a situation that directly conflicts — the manifestation will never work as we are attracting what we need as per how we are not overcoming the lesson/pattern that we keep ending up in.
What comes to me now is that while we can learn about what we need to change in our lives from looking at the past, and that can be done through intentionally focusing in on memories within a quiet space/meditation, and seeing patterns, seeing when ego elements are popping up, we shouldn't dwell on what could have been, regrets and mistakes, we need to focus in on the now.
Through our dreams we will be shown what we can change, but also through our thoughts. I know I keep thinking about certain things, and this shows me I haven't healed those situations and/or forgiven and properly let go. Such thoughts block my progress for example. The same types of thoughts are likely to pop up in dreams.
There will be a lot of past events and situations, including possibly past life situations, stuck in our energy system and this will not be coming up in thoughts we have, as those thoughts are always about recent events. On occasion we will have something trigger a memory, whether in our long term past or it could be a vision from a past life, and then that can indicate to us we have to heal and work on that. But so much can take place through various healing modalities that heal all these things without us needing to be consciously aware of them. It's just there are some things we need to be made aware of or we can't heal.