Non-Se can do the same thing ofc, but what really points towards Se in the text would be that you seem to take in the environment 'unfiltered', trusting your 5 senses.
Hmm. It seems pretty filtered to me. Out of all the sky, clouds, trees, bushes, distant mountains, interior of my car, passengers, etc, I only notice the lanes and car in front of me. And even if I did notice all the other things, they would be irrelevant to my argument to my passenger about why I switched lanes so quickly. Or does that count as an example of when Se notices the relevant details in a sea of objects? In which case, I wonder what a non-Se user would more likely take in from the same environment.
I'll try to explain in as much detail everything I can remember about my walk to work today:
While walking to work today, I was listening to Angra. They're a great power metal band from Brazil. One of my favorites. I pretty much started on auto-pilot right out my front door. Let's see:
That pretty girl next door. Nope, her car's not here. She's a bitch anyway. What time is it? (pictures the microwave clock at home) It's already 8. (pictures a digital clock with the display "8:10") I'll only be about 10 minutes late. (pictures a wall clock) That's not so bad. (a scene of me walking into work plays briefly in my head) It's a lot better than 30 minutes like I normally used to be. I'm trying to be there on time. This is a good song. (pictures the cover of the CD with a huge white angel spreading his wings) This is the CD where they go back to their original style after changing it in the last album. Or is this the one where they change their style? Hmm, does this sound like their old stuff or different? I can't tell. But at any rate, it's all good. (song lyrics sing "Nova Era", the title of the song) Nova Era... That means it doesn't go. I doubt the singers meant it that way. Nova means "does not go" in Spanish. (this scene plays in my head from the movie "Tower Heist" that we watched last night: Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy are driving in a car. Ben just bailed Eddie out of jail. He's trying to make small talk with him and he says "Nova means 'does not go' in Spanish. That's why they didn't sell many in Latin America." Eddie is not impressed. Ben starts saying more trivia and Eddie just looks annoyed.) Heh, typical "book smart" meets "street smart" scene. Of course they had to depict it with a white and black guy playing those roles respectively. Dude, Ben, Eddie's going to think you're a lame nerd if you keep talking like that. That's not the way to make small talk with him. He has no respect for you. (pictures Ben Stiller's face and notices his gray hairs) He did look like he had a lot of resolve in that movie, though, and he's getting older. He's not just some weak loser. And Eddie Murphy's hardly someone to be hardened. Who is he to act all serious, being a comedian himself? When did Eddie get fed up again? (Ben asks him if he wants something to eat and Eddie finally gets fed up and slams on Ben's foot, making him accelerate before asking him why he bailed him out of jail) Ben picked him out because they had words on the street each day. Dude, that doesn't mean you relate to each other or have a connection. I learned that the hard way with that bitch next door. Of course he's going to wonder why you bailed him out of jail. He seems to not remember you, but he does, he just doesn't think it is relevant. See, you are thinking "we see each other every day, so that would explain why I'd bail you out", but he wouldn't think that would be any more of a reason than if you hadn't ever seen each other before, so he's not even letting on that he remembers you. When you try to get him to remember, you're goal is for him to understand why you bailed him out, but you don't understand that getting him to recognize you wouldn't achieve your goal. How can you not get that right away? Well, I suppose it has to go this way to depict the comedy moment. Even given that you were classmates as kids, it only gets a little closer to explaining why you bailed him out. (scene plays where Eddie remembers Ben as the seizure kid and Ben explains that he didn't have seizures, only had asthma. but Eddie is adamant that he had seizures and foamed at the mouth and everything. Ben insists there was no foam) (pictures actual foam coming out of a kid's mouth) Would Eddie really think he had seizures just because he used an inhaler? He must have had something happen for Eddie to remember it that way. Why would he make that up? And he doesn't care what it really is. He wants to remember him as "seizure kid" because it's more demeaning. He needs to feel superior to him. Is that how he'd really be, or is it just the stereotype of that kind of person he was written as to provide the proper character for the comedy moment they wanted to happen? I hate when they do that. What did he think when he first got bailed out and saw Ben standing there? (scene plays when Eddie gets out of jail and sees Ben by his car) What was he thinking then? (scene plays when the guard tells Eddie in jail that he made bail and Eddie purses his lips together and squeezes the deck of Poker cards he's holding in a way that makes them all spring out of his hand onto the ground and gets up to leave) Don't just make a mess. Will the guard have to pick them up? Or maybe some janitor. What a crappy job. Do you really get a deck of cards in jail? What, do they just give you cards so you don't have to be bored when you're there as a punishment? Don't they only let you have things you can't use as a weapon? Couldn't he slice the guard's throat with one of those? Well, maybe not. You'd have to already have a significant physical advantage over the guard to do that, and then you wouldn't need the card anyway. Throw the card? No, you couldn't throw it hard enough to make it fly straight like a tornado could. Only if you're Gambit would cards be dangerous. He didn't even look like he was playing anything with them. He'd probably only play Poker with them. If I was in jail and had a deck of cards, I'd spend the whole time playing with them and working on further developing my card game. (pictures myself sitting in on a bench in his jail cell and playing my game against myself, playing the role of multiple players) I'd have a lot of time to do that. That'd be cool. Would it become popular in there? What if it became a game everyone in prison played? Would hardened criminals really play my game or would they think it was dumb? (pictures Patrick Jane from the show "The Mentalist" in prison showing card tricks to the inmates to distract them from attacking him) Are real people in prison like that? Jane distracted them with card tricks. Most people would be afraid of these guys and probably freeze up or try things that wouldn't work. He keeps his cool and knows what will get these guys to focus on what he wants them to focus on. This is a good song. Wait, it's almost over. I completely missed this song because I was lost in thought.
(this was past the halfway point in my walk, meaning about 7-8 minutes had passed)
Hmm, I was completely oblivious to the song being played and I don't remember any of my physical surroundings for the last 7-8 minutes. I can't have been using Se unless it was set on auto-pilot and I'm using something else right now. Well, I was focusing on thoughts, so an internal function. There's Ti and Ni. Ti just analyzes things, but it needs data to analyze. A perceiving function is needed for that, but it has to be internal since the source was all memories. Was I using Ti+Ni that whole time with Se in subconscious mode? That's one of those loops. Ti+Ni loop. I read those can lead to unhealthy reasoning without the function of the opposite orientation between them being involved. But how could noticing the details of my surroundings help the reasoning I just had? It would only distract me. Is that what all "lost in thought" moments are? Ji+Pi loops? Can your dom/aux even be in subconscious mode? Well, I certainly wasn't using it in my conscious thoughts. I don't have any conscious memories of anything outside myself for that whole duration. I was recalling memories and linking them to other related memories. That's how my current understanding of Ne works, but it could be just iNtuition in general. I can't have been Ne anyway, since I wasn't focusing on the external world. So I was either using Ni or Si. If Si, then it was subconsciously. I know one of the subconscious roles is used when having internal dialog. Hey, this would be a good thing to post about on the forum. Yeah, I could talk about how I got lost in thought about the movie last night and how one thought brought me to another one and I was oblivious to my physical surroundings. Maybe someone there can point out what function I was using. I hope it surprises them and this type of thing isn't just normal. So the first thing I thought of was "Tower Heist", right? What made me think of that? It was something Ben was saying to Eddie, like trivia stuff. But what made me think of Ben's trivia? Was I imagining myself trying to impress someone else with trivia? No, I don't think so. What was I thinking of before that point?
At this point I was approaching work and decided I'd think of it once I got settled in at my desk. It wasn't until I looked at my song list and saw the song "Nova Era" I finally realized what made me think of the movie.
