The short version: I feel good from light new sensory experiences. The stress is on the word light however. Heavy sensory experiences can make me feel tired, irritable, nauseous, metally repulsed and wanting to escape them, or simply spacing out and escaping into Ni.
The long version:
- If I go to eat out I will frequently try to order something I haven't tried before. I also love going to specialty food and ethnic stores and buying some weird food there, the kind that I don't know even what to do with.
- I like moving to new places and traveling. Feel more uplifted and energetic after I move. In fact I think I simply require change in surroundings once in a while otherwise I start feeling down.
- Can feel really good from just minor sensory experiences. For example I was thinking about some stuff one day and feeling very depressed about it. Then I went outside and just sat there on the sun for a while. This made me feel much better.
- Love big cities, in fact love any places where people concentrate - flee markets, parks, museums, observatories, theaters, beaches, amusement parks, bookstores, airports, etc. These offer continuous light Se input.
- Descriptions of paradise and hell that go over the various sensory stimulation one can expect in those places, such as having whatever you want vs fire and eternal torture never really did anything for me.
- I don't pay attention to people's appearance much. I have noticed that for other girls things like how tall and cute a guy is are significant factors in deciding whether they are dating material. For me this is mostly irrelevant.
- I hate wearing clothing that would attract attention to myself. Usually dress very conservatively. Flashy clothing on other people doesn't attract my attention much unless it is something extremely bizzare. Then I'm gonna stare
- Weirdest effect of having inferior sensory function is that I have a sense that objects are not really solid. It is as if I can sense through solid objects, don't know how else to describe it. Been a few occasions where I had to touch something to confirm that it is really solid and there.
- I am not very sporty, quite lazy about going to the gym, and risk-averse when it comes to physical activities. Part of it I attribute to not playing any sports when I was a kid/teenager. My sister has inferior S function as well but when she was growing up my mom signed her up for many different sports classes because she thought she made a mistake with me focusing too much on my academics and not enough on my physical development. Even though both of us have inferior sensory function I can see that my sister definitely takes better to physical activity of any sorts, though otherwise she is just as oblivious to physical detail as I am. I have high sense of self-preservation but at the same time slightly gravitate towards somewhat physically risky activities. For example when skiing I randomly decided to take the black diamond slope down even though I know that I am not up to that level in my skiing yet. Another example, one day my friend and I traveled to a beach. The usual way down was closed off because of rain and mudslides. She said we should turn back. I looked down the cliff, visually planned the route and said no, lets sneak behind the yellow tape, I see a way to get down. It was a bit risky as the path in some places was extremely narrow, but we made it.
With a Se dominant person I feel like we do not have enough in common to start a relationship. In addition, the way ESTP guys try to attract girls usually has some physical component, but it doesn't work well on me. It doesn't ignite much mental interest or emotion. I usually get along better with ESFPs than ESTPs probably because we at least have F in common.