Reply To: Si & Inner Sensory Experiences

[Bera]

I didn't say anything about this and I love it :

**I hope a SeNi user can correct me and tell me if the blue lines converge in this fashion, capturing centrality or if the relationship between objects is a bit more woven. I suspect they’re converging, but how so is unique to each user. The point is that they accurately mark and compress a snapshot of reality, which can be resurrected at a later time. The reason I say Ni watches changes over time is because if you use an egocentric frame of reference, you rely on a parallax effect to monitor changes. This was my hunch, and the literature in cognitive science seems to support this. I don’t think Socionics calls Ni “time” arbitrarily. “Awareness of time” is very different from a user’s being in time.

I think they converge in this precise fashion ! So, we don't just have a singular focus on objects/tunnel vision but also a singular internal focus - establishing the general meaning/lesson to be learned from the external input. This is already in the Ni profile, as some of the things I said above, I am just trying to clarify that it is like this and not more woven. 🙂
It does not feel like this snapshot of reality is resurrected, it feels like an Idea/Archetype/Symbol exists and sometimes you bump into it. You encountered it in the past and you see it again.Your trajectory brought you away from it and now it is bringing you back to it.
The changes over time are seen as some sort of passage through different situations from which you learn certain life lessons. So, you don't store a lot of sensory details. Just the symbols. A certain taste or smell doesn't matter - if it doesn't have a specific meaning for you - you only recall a cluster of symbolic objects/events and the lesson you drew out of them. When a part of this cluster reappears, you start questioning if you are facing the same thing. Oh, you basically see the clusters forming. The lines appearing and converging to a point. And this happens over a period of time.