I just recently read some brief pages by Leonore Thompson on the Ne matter and found her descriptions quite good. She said that experiencing Intuition is like listening to music. When you do, you dont concentrate on the notes themselves, but on the holistic thing they create when put in relation. So what you experience as music, is basically the relation between notes, a bit dumbly put.
On top of that she gave a good example regarding a person's face. If you meet a person, you always have a "gut feeling" from moment 1 on. I never really thought about that trait of mine in detail, but when I did, I realized I judged many people wrong in their character from the start. Another part aspect of this is the recognition of the face as a whole. You cant normally tell if a person has a big nose you wont notice ( except it's really big
). My workmate has a huge scar on his forehead and lately he talked about an accident he had as a kid. That was the first time I conciously realized there was a scar. This kind of attitude is best expressed, if someone asks me to describe a person. Like the police would ask you for a mug shot. It wouldnt matter if I dont know the person much or if I have known her / him for years, I suck at doing mug shots. On the other hand tho, I remember every face, I have ever seen in my life, the moment I see it again. The initial feeling is, "I know this person from somewhere" and then after some digging in my memories I know who she / he is. It's amazing my gf says I have an impressive facial recognition memory, tho as said, I totally suck at doing a mug shot.
One last intresting thing, Leonore talked about too, is conviction. When I was a kid I read all sorts of medical books and my parents where convinced, I'll become a doctor one day ( later when I discovered robots, medicine didnt caught my intrest again
). It started with me reading a series of books for kids about different topics, which were already pretty detailed but lacked many detail on the same hand. So I bought books for adults and tho I didnt understand like 60% of the words used, I still worked my way thru it. I still know till today, how the immune defence is coordinated, with B-memory cells coordinating the defence or if its an unknown bacteria, its either the antigenes or the T-Killer lymphocytes who answer to the challenge. What I wanted to say, equipped with this half-knowledge about things, my Intuition seemed to fill in the blanks ( without careful analysis ). So if my mom for example asked me something about an illness, I gave her a prompt answer ( cause I didnt want to look stupid ) and made like 70% of the answer up. The things I made up were quite good and they could definitly be the answer, I'ld just really need to subject them to further study first, to be convinced this is how it works.
This conviction about knowing things I never knew nowadays got replaced by a lot of methodical, systematical and technical expertise thanks to my University education, so I am no easy victim for myself no more. It's nevertheless good to know, one does such a thing, it's good for knowing when and when not you betray yourself and that you are not all-knowing.
One thing hasnt ceased to exist for me so far yet and that's my fascination for all kind of working systems, which I try to see holistically, to fill in all the blanks and then analyse or just enjoy, if it's not to be analyzed. Systems like: electrical circuits, political events and whats really happening, economic systems, biological systems, astronomical occurences, card games, relationships, music, .....