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Originally Posted by Uberfuhrer
Interesting, although I would expect kids to engage in creative play. I still don't think an ESFP would have daydreams as vivid or as fantasy-oriented as Calvin's.
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Well, the characters of Calvin and Hobbes were hijacked by Watterson to carry out his cartoon concept, rather than the other way around [Characters become hard to type, personality-wise, if they are in service to a concept/plot, rather than being totally autonomous] -- but I actually lean in your direction, Calvin's mind seems more N altogether than S. I just don't know how much is Calvin's as a person and how much is the cartoonist's N enacting itself through Calvin.
What I have noticed is, again, the complexity of the imagination, or at least how "boxed in" it is. The S types tend to imagine themselves as conventional or realistic things when they play; the N types break out of the mold. My ESFP son is creative, but he's more conventional in his creativity. For example, he loves drawing Pokemon characters, but it's not like he is doing something new with them, he is mostly just regurgitating what he sees. (I don't want to say predictable, but... there is just not that quick-spawning chain of imaginative leaps. Everything is straight-forward.)
An N is more inclined to start with one idea, leapfrog from that to another in an unanticipated direction, then keep changing gears. Each stone is connected to the next in some way, but how it is connected often changes for an N. So they can end up someplace very far from where they started... and yet there is still the chain that can be followed when you look at it.
Just go into Friday night chat on INTPc, and you can see this in real-live action.
The conversation is bouncing around in a few directions at once, and it can sometimes be hard to keep up with each new twist. S conversation tends to be more linear and straight-forward.
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I would suspect that an ESFP would more likely play Power Rangers, Pokemon, or whatever Japanese cartoon kids enjoy these days with other children. They'd probably pretend their playmate represents something else, but I don't think that the image in their minds are as strong.
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Yes, that's sort of it.
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Hence, I can actually easily see an Intuitive being more realistic by saying, "That's not a Pokemon (give me a break, I never watched the things that kids watch), that's a [whatever the real object is]."
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I think good iNtuitives have a clear sense of what is "real" and what is "imaginary," even if the imaginary reverberates within them so strongly. Usually I see S's having a harder time living in both worlds at once; everything is made concrete somehow, so either they stick with the tangible and reject the imaginary, or they believe in something imaginary by believing it's real.
Anyhoo, I would lean towards Calvin being N, as you do... I just wanted to clarify the imagination sense in S's as well.