Is it possible? How can I do it?
I'm quite fond of Ne in the use of creative art and would very much like to develop that side. But I need that Si anchor, too. I'm so used to Se/Ni.
First of all, are you sure you want to do this for art? It’s nothing but trouble
I’m sure you don’t want the whole story in regard to my experiences with art classes but it’s really a nightmare of so many crazy images inspired but first needing the patience and focus to get things on canvas AS THEY ARE.
I want to paint this majestic equestrian world with spiraling staircases, planets in the background, and rainbow waterfalls. But I can’t even draw the goshdarned horse to look like a horse rather than a mutated donkey-rhino....
Anyway, let’s throw that whole “you can’t have Se and Ne as a function perspective at the same time†thingy away a deep dark closet for a second and try some games.
Captioning the world: take interesting pictures and give captions to them that are somewhat unexpected for the picture at hand, so that the picture and the caption together create something new. For inspiration, there is this phenomenon called LOLcats…
This is not a…: take an object, and say to it, “This is not a _____. It is really a _____.†Now explain how the thing is really the new thing and act like it is the new thing.
Collaborative story making: yes, you’ll need another person for this, but at least this one is pretty self-explanatory.
- Try to broaden your external context, assuming the apparent facts & sensations/experiences have left out some aspect of reality, an important part that will key you into a "solution".
- Don't view anything as impossible, even if its only possibility is remote, unlikely or completely fantastical.
- Don't dismiss contemplating & mentally exploring these remote possibilities even if you have no intention of doing it and/or it has no practical value.
- Trust hypothesis over experience.
- Imagine currently reality as a cage, and brainstorm on how you can escape that cage, but not in a physical sense.
But I think this one needs some explaining. It’s a really good metaphor for describing the perspective in general, but it’s very difficult as an exercise because it is asking of how to escape all of reality. Instead, one could start with a very specific part of reality of which to brainstorm escaping, and build from there. Like, “Can we wear time pieces on other places than our wrists?†“Why do cars have to move upon wheels?†and “Why aren’t we allowed to press that big red button?†(I suggest not getting any real red buttons involved. If the exercise goes well, buttons will be pressed
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Intuition can be like that. You focus on these intangible pieces of info that cannot be articulated, & it's often indirectly inspired by external experience/info. It's like they're on the tip of your tongue, and your mind is working in the background to convert it into something comprehensible to even you. However, with intuition, these "words" are information or insights that you didn't know you even knew; often it's because they amount to new ideas. They seem to come out of nowhere in that way. Perceptions come to intuitives like this. The tangible world is absorbed almost indirectly, passively, and their mind is focused on articulating some concept or possible explanation which will sum it all up so well.
So imagine if that whole time you were focused & aware of how the word was emerging in your mind. The intuitive is more aware of these background processes because its their preferred process. This is where the dreamy side comes about; the person is focusing on articulating a mental concept in their head, not the tangible stuff around them. Or, they will want to pull in others to articulate it (Ne-dom mainly), and basically shoot ideas back & forth until it emerges clearly. Just as when you're trying to articulate that word on the tip of your tongue, you may ask people stuff to help you figure it out, to confirm that is the word you want. The pursuit of possibilities is the visible manifestation of someone trying to articulate the idea. Doesn't it drive you nuts when you have a word on the tip of your tongue? This is why Ne is associated with being restless, spontaneous, fickle even. They're jumping from thing to thing in pursuit of finding something, something they can't even define.
This is an awesome description/definition to work from here.
When people talk about aliens I look at them funny and when they talk about flying unicorns I laugh or roll my eyes. Entertaining things that ARE COMPLETELY FANTASTICAL seems like a pointless waste of time, and can get boring.
LOL, yeah…. Extraverted intuition has nothing to do with aliens riding flying unicorns out into the sunset, even if sometimes I will mess around and pretend it does. But I am trying to take this more seriously now, so I’ll try not to mislead like that.
Though there is that story making aspect, I think. And aliens riding flying unicorns into the sunset might be the end to a great story, right? Okay, probably not your taste
But I don’t think the taste difference is related much to type.
And I’ll get bored with pure fantasy too. There’s still the drive to see those things in reality somehow, and when that doesn’t seem to be happening, it’s on to the next thing. Find the potential of a thing, try to make it happen, find another thing. Rinse and repeat.
