I've experienced FiNi looping as a constant dwelling and focus on categories, concepts, archetypes and black-and-white judgments rather than appreciating whats actually going on in objective reality. I would sit in class thinking about how I was missing out on the highschool experience, instead of actually experiencing it. I would read disapproval in others, at one point I felt like I was constantly being stared at. I would look in the mirror obsessively and dwell on how worthless I was if I didn't like what I saw on particular day. I often interpreted it as "fate", or something akin to ego death. I spent a lot of time fantasizing about ideal circumstances vividly, and enjoyed them more than tangible reality.
I was obsessed with (cultural) anthropology, sociology, and history, and viewed the world almost exclusively from that lense. When I would go on vacation to my parents' country at 15-16, I would spend most of time obsessively observing patterns in dialect, regional differences, infrastructure, temperament and phenotype, and fitting all of these subjective observations into my sociological framework. I found it fun/interesting, but most of my peers did not share my interests, and I couldn't connect with them for shit as a result. That obsession has largely been replaced by psychology, myers-Briggs and enneagram. There are times where I can barely get myself to think outside of theory, conceptual frameworks, or my own personal conclusions, and everything I see in the outside world (through Se) only serves to support them. I could delve deeper into some of my self-indulgent obsessions throughout my life, but they get really weird.
Can you relate? [MENTION=17945]Webslinger[/MENTION] and [MENTION=10131]IndyAnnaJoan[/MENTION]