I have an ISFP roommate, and I find myself wondering if it's even remotely possible to be in the same room as him and do something without him noticing, even if his back's turned.
Yeah, that's been a problem before. My ENTP roommate will be talking to his gf over MSN and I have a really hard time tuning it out sometimes. I'll try not to listen but I hear every word because my mind just zones in on it and he tells me he feels like I'm listening to him. I just say, "I'm trying not to..." It makes it hard to focus on what I'm doing on the computer, but once I get in the zone, I'm good. I don't hear a word. Alot of times I have to wear headphones, though.
There have been many times where he's said something about me for one reason or another and I woke up to the sound of my name (I'm a day-sleeper and night-worker).
Or how my whole entire life, even when I was typed as an INFP, I was always aware of my surroundings and where everybody was at any given moment in time. People usually ask me where people have gone and I always have an answer even if I haven't been paying conscious attention. I know if somebody's left the house or gone into their room or the kitchen automatically even if I've been concentrating on something behind a closed door.
I've been shocked when my roommate hasn't noticed that I'm awake. He'll start talking on the phone and he enjoys his privacy so a few times he'll say, "I didn't know you were awake!" and I'm like, "You walked right past me..." and he'll say that he just didn't notice.
That's really strange to me.
He always loses things and I can generally help him find them. I usually remember wherever I've put anything.
I usually know what's going on behind my back, and when I don't it shocks me. It's very very hard to sneak up on me. The only time you can really do it is if I'm concentrating on zoning (organizing) the merchandise at work inside the freezer doors, and even then only a couple of really skilled people have been able to do it. They've given up now, though, because I keep catching them.
There was this kid that used to always try to trip me as I walked by (usually when we were sitting in rows of chairs) and I'd always run up against his leg. After a few times of that, though, I learned to notice when he was about to do it and walk right over it. No one has been able to trip me ever since then. hah.
Do you catch people looking at you out of the corner of your eye?
Of course! Do other people not? My mind automatically zones in on it and I have trouble thinking about something else alot of the time. Sometimes I ignore it, other times I look back at them like a challenge.
In fact, I even notice when people are looking at me from behind. I don't know if that's sensation or intuition or what, but I'm hyper-aware.