Carol, thanks for attempting to explain in the face of severe skepticism.

Wrt your closing comment: "People who want to project their own emotional state on me and tell me that I am engaging in wishful thinking are themselves engaging in wishful thinking." - I personally don't include any negative or positive emotion with inquiry of this sort. I think my intellectual position is clear. I am not 'emotional' on the subject of paranormal or supernatural things. I am interested and skeptical, that is all.

Of course, what you describe naturally raises lots of other questions. What kind of energy are the plants using/giving off to communicate? What part of your brain is sensitive to this energy?

If humans have evolved to have an ability to sense what plants need, then that would be a very useful adaptation, and should have been a factor in human evolutionary success, yet given the propensity for humans to starve for lack of knowledge of plant requirements (slash and burn agriculture, potato famine, countless other examples can be found), evidence of such an adaptation is lacking.

Sources and kinds of energy are usually identifiable - electricity is a kind of energy which is produced in several known ways (including biologically), for example.

Why would a plant 'know' in the first place what mineral it needed to flourish? Plants have evolved to propagate mostly by sending seeds by wind, by sticking to mobile animals, by surviving ingestion by mobile animals. Their strategy is not 'to find a good place to grow', but to send out many seeds, sometimes enhanced by a food packet, or likely to be dropped with a packet of animal fertilizer, so some of them will by chance land in a good place to grow, or at least good enough to propagate again. Plants would not have a 'need to know' what constitutes a good place to grow. Or so I would logically expect.

These are the kinds of questions your description gives rise to, and I think they are valid. Your experience, of course, is your own.