@hrafn - I usually don't have very intense internal sensations and I also don't feel like they are persistent and have a narrative quality. But I am...quite detached from my sensations generally, I don't get that caught up in the externally caused ones either. I am mostly caught in thoughts and/or absent minded. Sometimes I have little blobs of…Read more

@bera, I've thought about it some and I think I can better delineate what I mean.

Usually, people use hatred to mean "ill will", or "wanting someone to suffer" etc, especially out of petty, narcissistic envy. In that sense, what I described would not be properly called that, so I see what you mean. But there's a white-hot anger that surrounds an…Read more

After taking some time to look over John and Emily (and doing another pass on Neil, think I finally got him lol), I see Emily as TiSe III- [Directive] and John as FeSi III- [Adaptive].

Just my two cents 🙂

Fighting is absolutely necessary in relationships for me. Without fighting there is no passion and without passion there is no true love. There’s no challenge, no push to grow together, no struggle, no climax, no resolutions, no make-up sex. It’s basically stagnant and stale. No, thank you.

@ hrafn – this is fascinating ! I think it is because you are SiFe !  Now that you mentioned it…I do have internal sensations too…like hunger or headache, feeling tired or energized…indeed, they are internal and I didn’t even think of them when I wrote about sensations. But do you see why?? I think it’s because you are more attuned to internal sen…

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I lost track of this thread and remembered to get back to it.

However, I don’t agree about sensations being “usually caused by a physical stimulus”–I feel that certain sensations are this way, but not all. A lot of sensations are internal, with no short-term connection to world outside my body–things like being satiated, sleepy, vertigo, the jitte…

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