Perhaps it could have something to do with Ni-Se axis versus the Ne-Si axis.
Interesting! Let's see if it adds up according to the people who post here
I always need first to know the general picture, I want an obvious big picture of what I am going through.. Once you give me the general picture and the tools to dig in, I will be ready for details, but of course I gotta be interested in the subject to start with, if I don't know the significance of it or like that subject, I will not do good with it..
I am never getting enough of knowing more details in whatever interests me, I keep the big picture as a reference, then it's just it's a continuous process of zooming in- zooming out, knowing more details then continually modifying my big picture depending on the details that I discover while digging in, it might as well change my whole perception, I am open to that..
The bolded really interested me, because I do quite the opposite: I look at object A and zoom in until there's nothing interesting for me, then I pass to object B, C, D... and then, when I zoom out, it's kind of scary... the amount of information I gathered makes me
not understand the big picture as a whole but as a bag of objects I now have to put into place and relate to each other until it makes sense again, but the big picture is always "fragmented", composed by the little objects. It's like I can never make the big picture "compact/flat/unified".
for me i come at it from both sides... small and large details meet in the middle... that is to say i notice many small things as i work on the big picture... as my idea of the place/thing/person settles in i return to small details, and then think about the way the details add up... so it is very much a back and forth process..
So it's as if you had "bifocals for perception", interesting!
Good question [MENTION=26997]CitizenErased[/MENTION]! Yes, I think this is somewhat type related (or more specifically 'function & order' related).
I tend to look at the large picture first. Consciously. But, while I am looking at the overview, details come into my view. Automatically.
So, if someone is telling me about a situation I will listen and think about how everything appears from a zoomed out perspective. Actively thinking. Or if I walk into a gallery or hotel room, I will do a cursory overview analysis. Like viewing a city below from atop a mountain.
But during that phase, details automatically come into focus: 'hmmm, that coastal highway has a traffic snarl or that sub-division is laid out oddly'.
When I am looking at pictures or watching movies with people, I will frequently say something I find interesting or admire and the response from other's is "Oh wow, HOW did you notice that!?". But, it isn't something I can take credit for, cuz those things just seem to jump out?
This happens to me a lot, only that without seeing the big picture first. But I always talk with my hands, and as you can't see me, I need of some visual aid, I'll come back with a sketch.
It goes like this: ... Imagine you are in a corner and you have to get to another corner of the same block. You see all blurry enough just to distinguish the silhouettes so you don't hit them and the only clear things are the tiles on the sidewalk, as a signaling of where you have to walk. Suddenly your eyes move to the socks of a person passing by, because they don't match. You don't have any idea how you picked up on that because you were just looking at the tiles. Everything keeps blurry but the tiles and the socks. When the socks pass, everything is undistinguishable again. Well, that's what happens with people, only that the radar doesn't reach that far. What's terrible is that people can enter the "Interaction Zone", which means I can functionally ask them for a stapler or reply to "Good morning", but they are still blurry. Anyway, my brain picks things, just like with the socks, for example "when guy A talked about his new car, guy B made a twitch with the nose, he's jealous, but girl C touched her hair in a weird way, she probably likes money and will start dating A in about 2 weeks", and then it happens, but I still see silhouettes. Now suppose a guy is interested in talking to me, he says "I'll enter to the interaction zone, so she will notice me" (because in the rest of the people the interaction zone and "interesting people detection" have the same radius)... but no. Unless he says something extremely great or wears a funny hat, for me he's just another annoying moving thing that doesn't let me concentrate. Like a mosquito.
I compile the details, assessing the structure of each one. I examine the interpersonal space between each detail, and bring them together to eventually create a big picture. The relations between each detail are what's important to me, and the patterns that these create. The details themselves, mean a lot less.
However, it's hard for me to observe how I perceive - because my Ti is controlling virtually every perception I have.
Yes, to perceive your own perception is tough, but once you start thinking about how you think, perceiving how you perceive and such, you enter a vortex of introspection that never leaves you. And Ti "likes" that (as if it were a separate entity within you... like a tapeworm), because it's all about reconstructing your own inner framework and how to tell when you're biased by your own physiology, past experiences, etc and it may help you clear the way to see more "objectively".