Apollanaut
Senior Mugwump
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2008
- Messages
- 550
- MBTI Type
- INFJ
- Enneagram
- 9w1
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
It can go either way for me. Often I'm very observant of people and things around me, but at the same time I can often be preoccupied with my own thoughts.
I can recount the one incident when I was waiting for some friends to see a movie, and I literally walked right past them without noticing. They had to shout out to me before I snapped out of my deep thinking.
I'm exactly the same. I seem to have two modes
1. Lost in thought
2. Highly observant of everything.
Mode 1 is my default state. I have to actively switch on the second mode, but it's become much easier and more natural to do this as I've aged. I guess I've finally gaining conscious access to my inferior Se function. Also, my job as a forensic scientist depends on being highly observant.