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You Know You're An iNtuitive When...

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#1 ·
Like WQ's Sensor thread, but about iNtuitives.
 
#231 ·
You know you're an intuitive female if you've ever been bored out of your mind during a date or conversation with a guy that was after you, so you decided to start twisting his words around for your own personal amusement.

Example:
Guy: What is your favorite color?
Me: I like pigeons
Guy: What? That's not a color...
Me: There are pigeons on Mary Poppins aren't there? Or maybe its Seaseme Street?
Guy: I don't know - I just wanted to know your favorite color.
Me: There's a song about pigeons aren't there?
Guy: Um, I don't know. What is your favorite song?
Me: I have a concert going on in my head right now.

Note: I've only done this when the guys has got me bored out of my mind and I'm very annoyed. Typically I'm too nice to do this, so when I do I'm really on the last attempt to get rid of him. :crazy: On a rare occasion I'd actually find someone cool that'd roll with it. :tongue:
 
#233 ·
Hey, pidgeons have a colour, it totally follows!
Someone's favourite colour means nothing when it's completely subjective what emotions colours evoke from people.
Is your favourite song composed of pidgeons in the alcoves? Acoustics could make it work...
 
#234 ·
When you catch yourself making a comment like....

"My puppy told me he needed to go outside to pee."

or...

"My cat told me he thought that guy was an idiot."

And you're POSITIVE you are right because your instincts told you that's what the animal was wanting you to know, but people still think you're nuts for claiming that your pet "talked to you".
 
#237 ·
When you can't figure out when or if something happened/was said. Was it yesterday? No it was today. No no, it was 2 days ago. NO!!! I dreamt it!! No, that's not right. It never even happened. I just made it up. Oh, forget it, I don't even care.

When someone is going on and on and ON about something and you think things like: "If I look at their nose, can they tell I'm not looking in their eyes? Do I even seem like I'm paying any attention to what they're saying? Ok, act like you're actually listening. Nod your head. Don't nod again, that's too repetitive and it might give it away. Next time say 'mhmm' and 'yeah'. OMG are they done talking? Quick! Say something general that would go with any conversation like 'yeah, I see what you're saying'. Don't forget to smile."

When you take a little trip to the kitchen and 5 minutes after you've finished and are walking towards the living room you realize you put your phone in the fridge and are now carrying an eggplant. You don't even try to figure out how that happened.
 
#240 ·
When you ask your ISFJ sister what object she would use to represent her mood at the moment and she tilts her head to the side, and gives you a "WTF....?" look.
 
#243 ·
When you and your friends can communicate like this and understand each other perfectly:

"Could you get that thing up there on the thing? I need it for that thing."
 
#244 ·
When you're watching a movie with your ESFJ friend and one scene involves a girl throwing gasoline at some guy in a car and then setting him on fire, and you suddenly yell out "OH MY GOD THAT'S HER DAD! She tried to kill her dad!" and your ESFJ friend really has no idea how you jumped to that conclusion since that scene is never referenced again in the movie and nothing in the movie even implies that she tried killing her dad specifically. Then later you wikipedia the movie and read up the article on the girl that set that man on fire and find out that it was indeed her dad and get really excited because you knew that somehow.

When you try to remember things from your childhood but have no idea if those things actually happened, if you imagined them, or if you dreamt it all.

When you're trying to form an opinion of something or someone and have a mental argument with yourself because there are so many different ways of looking at that thing and you haven't decided which way to go with yet.

When you start imagining how you want a conversation with a specific person to go in the future but then realize that now that you've thought of it happening in that way, it probably won't happen in that exact way and end up imagining alternate versions of that same conversation with the same person and how it might come about.
 
#249 ·
When you're watching a movie with your ESFJ friend and one scene involves a girl throwing gasoline at some guy in a car and then setting him on fire, and you suddenly yell out "OH MY GOD THAT'S HER DAD! She tried to kill her dad!" and your ESFJ friend really has no idea how you jumped to that conclusion since that scene is never referenced again in the movie and nothing in the movie even implies that she tried killing her dad specifically. Then later you wikipedia the movie and read up the article on the girl that set that man on fire and find out that it was indeed her dad and get really excited because you knew that somehow.
The girl with the dragon tattoo :crazy:

When someone tells you to do something and they use these words specifically and in a slightly firm tone, "Don't forget."
When you forget something and then go, "My bad."

May not be related but i just had to share this Ni vs Ne thing. I was having a conversation with my INFP brother and it was Ne all over the place for him. I asked him a simple question and he gave me 1001 answers. During which he Ne'd from the moon to mars and i zone out playing with the rocks on the moon. After nearly taking up 30 mins (how Ni of me to say this) of my time, i realised i had to come to a conclusion and made him crack his head on something almost unrelated. He gladly did of course.
I won't go into further detail of how this thing concluded. It would take another day to get there. Fun experiment it was though.
 
#794 ·
I know exactly what I did but couldn't tell you any landmarks or street names! It is more of a "well you turn and then you turn and then you drive for a long time and then you turn and here you are."
 
#246 ·
Adding to what rowingineden said: when you say, to your ESTJ sister, "remember your thing that was in the thing that I wanted for the thing when I came back from the thing? Well the thing is, I'm gonna need it again, I know it's yours, but I need it for this thing" and she has no idea what the hell you're talking about.

When you find the solution to a problem without really thinking about it. And when someone asks "but...how did you know?" you reply with "it just kinda hit me outta nowhere".

When, because you know yourself so well by now, you constantly remind yourself that you must've forgotten something. You think about it for a couple of minutes and make sure you have everything....and it seems that you actually haven't forgotten anything, for once. Until the end of the day, as you're lying in bed right before you go to sleep....you remember...you actually DID forget something.

When you constantly draw X's on your hand as "reminders" for things you need to do that you might forget to do and because you draw X's so much and people are so used to seeing them, they ask you "what do you need to remember THIS time?" everytime they see your hands.

When you think about things that most people don't even give FIRST thoughts to (let alone second thoughts), such as "the sugar cube at the top of this page needs to be IN the cup of coffee. It must be getting sick just having to sit there next to the cup for so long. And you'd think that by now SOMEONE would've added it to the coffee, sheesh. Hold on, I don't even LIKE coffee, what is this?"

When you daydream and make up different scenes in your head in which you could direct a movie with. They're so rich in visuals you don't even think they have the technology to make them yet.

When you space out even while watching things you enjoy.

When you're doing a simple thing, some pretty deep shit is happening inside your head. Like drinking water for example, you're not thinking "man, I was so thirsty and this just feels so good in my mouth". No, you're thinking "you know, this really tastes like nothing, it doesn't even have a pigment. I bet it doesn't even like going down my esophagus. It's all claustrophobic down there. Should I take another gulp? Will that feel better? Yeah I should. Actually that didn't feel better, I think I'm done know. Oh man, I think I flooded my stomach or something. I feel like I got humpback whales swimming around the Pacific Ocean down there every time I move my torso. How do humpback males mate anyway? I'd have to google that one. Which reminds me, I still have to google that thing about why hair gets all static-y in the winter."
 
#250 ·
When you both like and dislike when people ask what you're thinking, because sometimes it starts a good discussion, but other times they look at you like you're crazy because who in their right mind thinks about [insert absurd fantasy you were just having]?

Adding to what rowingineden said: when you say, to your ESTJ sister, "remember your thing that was in the thing that I wanted for the thing when I came back from the thing? Well the thing is, I'm gonna need it again, I know it's yours, but I need it for this thing" and she has no idea what the hell you're talking about.
My ESFJ boss wants me to do this. I'm happy to try, and we spend enough time together that most of the time she doesn't even have to finish her sentence, let alone fill in the words she was missing. But often I won't have a clue or misinterpret, and that somehow my fault, which makes me extremely angry.

When you constantly draw X's on your hand as "reminders" for things you need to do that you might forget to do and because you draw X's so much and people are so used to seeing them, they ask you "what do you need to remember THIS time?" everytime they see your hands.
When you do this so often no one even asks you any more. When the X goes on the outside and whatever you need to remember goes on the inside because a) if it's written on both sides you might actually notice it this time and b) unless it's written down you can't remember what you were reminding yourself to remember.
 
#247 ·
Oh, I thought of more. How exciting.

When your sense of place and direction are terrible because usually you never pay attention to where the people you're with are driving or walking to. You just space out to think and suddenly you're there in no time.

When you love long car rides because it gives you time to just hang out in your head.

When you're at the mall and you start complaining about how it all looks different and you could've sworn the stores were in a different order when you last were here, only to realize that this is a completely different mall that you've only been to once when you were 12 and the mall you thought you were in is actually in the opposite direction in a completely different city.
 
#362 ·
Oh, I thought of more. How exciting.

When your sense of place and direction are terrible because usually you never pay attention to where the people you're with are driving or walking to. You just space out to think and suddenly you're there in no time.

When you love long car rides because it gives you time to just hang out in your head.

When you're at the mall and you start complaining about how it all looks different and you could've sworn the stores were in a different order when you last were here, only to realize that this is a completely different mall that you've only been to once when you were 12 and the mall you thought you were in is actually in the opposite direction in a completely different city.
That is me! I am always getting lost :unsure:
Its frustrating but honestly worth all the revelations, thoughts, stores etc. I had playing in my head at the time.
 
#251 ·
Ha, I love this thread.

When you're out in public somewhere and you see people, you don't just see PEOPLE. For instance, if you're at the library and you're checking your books out, the librarian isn't just a librarian. While he's checking your books out, you can just picture him going home, having some mac-n-cheese, watching TV, etc.
 
#254 ·
after watching New Years fireworks, you wonder about the environmental damage it causes globally (since people everywhere, every year are doing it) and what animals think about them. meanwhile all the sensors are all like :O amazing!

when you see someone daydreaming, you wonder if they're also intuitive.

you think stuff like coloring your hair or dressing like a vampire or goth is much cooler than wearing typical stuff like khaki pants with a generic blue t shirt with a tiny horse, or other animal depicting the brand on it >_>

when you redirect the conversation from gossip, to the universe. and those conversation are so rare that you don't really know how to handle it with strangers, so you make a joke and change the subject again. besides, you can already predict all their possible responses.
 
#256 ·
after watching New Years fireworks, you wonder about the environmental damage it causes globally (since people everywhere, every year are doing it) and what animals think about them. meanwhile all the sensors are all like :O amazing
I kinda thought both to be honest, it was preetty xD
But yeah, when I saw all the lanterns and fireworks I suddenly found myself thinking 'this night is just another proof of how we trap ourselves. Keep on abiding by traditions that deplete our resources and that we sometimes even forget why we do it.'
Happy new year? It's not really new, it's the same long stretch of life I've always been on.
 
#260 ·
I've got another one. When someone near you says that they wouldn't use their CPR skills if someone was in an emergency so you go on and imagine what you would do in a situation like that. And then you come out of your pondering and you don't know whether you said it out loud or not. And you really hope you didn't because everyone around you would think you're crazy.
 
#263 ·
When someone looks at you funny, because you're taking an uncustomary amount of time to respond to a question, because you're trying to figure out how to explain the answer that you had before they completed asking it.:confused:
 
#266 ·
When you know how this thread will end up and the arguments for and against it but still you post this comment.
 
#267 ·
When you've lived in a house for four months and only now did you just notice that there's a random brick near the top of your otherwise concrete driveway. (It says "Don't spit on the sidewalk". :happy:)
 
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