[Other] Sensotard moments

[Lasting_Pain]

I don't get it.

 

[Apollanaut]

Priceless, I know.

My mother just reminded me that it was April Fool's while laughing herself against a wall. (I now wonder if the females in my family tend to do that). In fact, my day began with her waking me up with a warning that people might try to trick/prank me.

Well, lookie what I did beyond being a Clown, I turned myself into a Fool today too.

Tragically awesome.

Anyone else want to hire a Court Jester? I'm currently free on Thursdays. I've got a whole bag of tricks in wait behind my back to entertain you with. That's right, you'll get to see my blunders before I even notice what I'm doing wrong!

Zarc, you're scaring me again! I've had a strange week, with many Sensotard moments, including being late for work every single day, despite my best intentions. Luckily, we work flexible hours so I can make up for the time by staying late. Also, I've been in an unusually good mood all week, cracking jokes all the time and finding many things hysterically funny (including your hilarious story).

Finally, I thought to ask myself what's going on in my internal world to explain all this (INFJs do this a lot BTW). The answer came immediately, in the form of a strong image of my Trickster archetype, smiling and waving merrily at me! I know him well, because he manifests as my favourite ever role-playing alter-ego - a D&D-style magic-using Illusionist called Jortan.

He specialised in deceiving others by creating extremely realistic illusions, and eventually became powerful enough to alter reality itself, much like the Norse Trickster god, Loki. Clearly, he's been running my life all week, which is highly appropriate for the first week of April!

So if you need an accomplice Court Jester, I'm your man. Just don't ever expect me to turn up on time!

 

[zarc]

Zarc, you're scaring me again! I've had a strange week, with many Sensotard moments, including being late for work every single day, despite my best intentions. Luckily, we work flexible hours so I can make up for the time by staying late. Also, I've been in an unusually good mood all week, cracking jokes all the time and finding many things hysterically funny (including your hilarious story)

Scare, who me? I thought I was the only one! I've had so many this week that if I try to get them in mind to repeat aloud they all just vie to be spat out first. Huge spit balls formeth. Hey, are you saying if you hadn't been in such a mood to find things hysterically funny that my story wouldn't have been hilarious?

Finally, I thought to ask myself what's going on in my internal world to explain all this (INFJs do this a lot BTW). The answer came immediately, in the form of a strong image of my Trickster archetype, smiling and waving merrily at me! I know him well, because he manifests as my favourite ever role-playing alter-ego - a D&D-style magic-using Illusionist called Jortan.

He specialised in deceiving others by creating extremely realistic illusions, and eventually became powerful enough to alter reality itself, much like the Norse Trickster god, Loki. Clearly, he's been running my life all week, which is highly appropriate for the first week of April!

(BTW you're telling me? ) When I do plumb within for answers there is an immediate realisation that comes in the form of.... I don't know just what yet or if there is a form that I can't recall ATM... (Although...ha...I think I just found him as when I reread 'immediate realisation" he came to me. Edit: Though, he's of a different sort of Trickster than the Trickster Archetype so ha@me zzzz)

I wonder what else this week has in store for us, hmm.

So if you need an accomplice Court Jester, I'm your man. Just don't ever expect me to turn up on time!

Don't expect me to show up at the right place!

 

[Apollanaut]

Scare, who me? I thought I was the only one! I've had so many this week that if I try to get them in mind to repeat aloud they all just vie to be spat out first. Huge spit balls formeth. Hey, are you saying if you hadn't been in such a mood to find things hysterically funny that my story wouldn't have been hilarious?

You scare me 'cos we seem to be living parallel lives! And your story was a classic, but in my current mood I laughed so hard I spit coffee all over my desk (there's a slightly disturbing spitting thing going on here).

(BTW you're telling me? )

Nah, that little explanation was for the benefit of other readers, in a futile attempt to not seem totally crazy.

When I do plumb within for answers there is an immediate realisation that comes in the form of.... I don't know just what yet or if there is a form that I can't recall ATM... (Although...ha...I think I just found him as when I reread 'immediate realisation" he came to me. Edit: Though, he's of a different sort of Trickster than the Trickster Archetype so ha@me zzzz)

The Trickster takes many forms, he is a master of deception!

I wonder what else this week has in store for us, hmm.

No idea, but if the Trickster's still active, it certainly won't be dull!

 

[prplchknz]

So i can smoke in my new place woohoo! anyways I lit a cigarette and saw a flame come out of it, and was like why the fuck is my cigarette on fire? I took a drag thinking oh it will go out eventually the smoke tasted harsh like when you smoke note book paper, i look down realize I lit the wrong end of the thing, so I had lit the filter end and was smoking out of the opposite end. I blew it out, decided to let it cool off lit a new cig. Then a while later picked the first one back up and lit it correctly but the filter now feels like plastic, I'm kinda worried about what they put in those filter. Well, not really, I mean I'm still going to smoke it.

 

[mortabunt]

My hair keeps sticking up. Today, I was looking in the mirror and saw that I had like a punk spike.

 

[Tiltyred]

Last night driving home, I stopped at a stop sign and then sat there waiting for it to turn green while wondering why the guy behind me kept beeping at me.

 

[sculpting]

Last night driving home, I stopped at a stop sign and then sat there waiting for it to turn green while wondering why the guy behind me kept beeping at me.

been there!

I was on the phone awhile back with a friend and trying to take notes and the pen wouldnt work-becuase it was a toothbrush...

 

[Polaris]

I spent five minutes looking through my refrigerator for a jar of mayonnaise. I only noticed it was a few inches to the right of my head after knocking a tub of yogurt on the floor and splattering it all over. A refrigerator is a perilous labyrinth.

Last night driving home, I stopped at a stop sign and then sat there waiting for it to turn green while wondering why the guy behind me kept beeping at me.

This made me laugh so hard.

 

[Apollanaut]

A couple of weeks ago, my ENTP partner's sister (an ENFP) was visiting for a few days. Something about her brings out the Sensotardness in him to its maximum capacity. This time it happened like this:

We had arranged to go to a nice restaraunt for dinner. Shortly before we were due to leave he realised that he had lost his keyring, with doorkeys, work fobs and other important keys on it. We looked everywhere with no luck. I was certain he must have dropped them in his car, so all three of us looked and looked inside the car many times. Eventually we gave up and decided to go to the restaurant before we lost our booking.

Shortly after we set off, I felt something against my foot (on the front passenger side). I reached down and pulled out the "missing" keyring!

My best guess is that three people's combined inferior Sensing functions are considerably greater than any one person's alone. All three of us had looked in that very spot numerous times and did not find the damn keys.

 

[substitute]

so has this been made a classic yet?

 

[Serendipity]

I have an S mom.
She always had me, when I was younger and lived with her, look for something in the fridge.
Every time I opened that DAMN fridge, I couldn't see what she asked me for and instantly forget what it was I was supposed to get. After the fourth time of calling out to her about "what was it you wanted now again?" or "I can't see it, where is it?"(I got an explanation but I still couldn't see the damn thing); she comes into the kitchen and either:
A. I hold the item in my hand/alt. have already placed it on the table without thinking about it.
B. Is right in front of me and she's all pointing at it for me to grab it.
C. Actually isn't there! :3

And I always get yelled at for not finding it. As if it is OBVIOUS where it is. . .
YARGH! I still get worked up just thinking about it. :E|


This helped me greatly. I am now a proud owner of some S-skills. :3 (Haven't read functions as it is.)

 

[Unique]

lol So I think I'm like... one of the least likely types to have one of these moments right?

 

[Qre:us]

I try to circumvent the probability of sensotard moments if I can help it.

E.g., my room in the house is upstairs, and sometimes, if I forget to turn on the hallway light...I know I'll miss steps, esp when I reach the end (where I think there's step, but really isn't). So, I make sure that when I walk up the stairs, my toes touch, on each step, right to the inner edge, so I can feel and thus, tell if there's more steps to go or not.

Anyone else aware (and wary) of the predisposition to sensotard moments, who've come up with little 'tricks' to tackle it?

 

[jenocyde]

I try to circumvent the probability of sensotard moments if I can help it.

E.g., my room in the house is upstairs, and sometimes, if I forget to turn on the hallway light...I know I'll miss steps, esp when I reach the end (where I think there's step, but really isn't). So, I make sure that when I walk up the stairs, my toes touch, on each step, right to the inner edge, so I can feel and thus, tell if there's more steps to go or not.

Anyone else aware (and wary) of the predisposition to sensotard moments, who've come up with little 'tricks' to tackle it?

I think I mentioned earlier (or in another thread??) that I keep my shoes that I'll be wearing the next day in the fridge (wrapped up, of course). That way I don't leave the house without my lunch because I have to physically open the fridge on the way out. The downfall is that I often change my mind about what shoes I'll wear, so I end up with like 10 pairs in there.

Then it snowballed from there. That fridge keeps everything contained and away from the rest of the chaos. So if I have an important meeting the next day, all my paperwork also goes into the fridge. Now since I rarely cook, the whole thing is quite stupid. I always have my shoes, keys, documents and other random shit in the fridge, but never any food. There is no lunch to forget.

 

[Xenofile]

I try to circumvent the probability of sensotard moments if I can help it.

E.g., my room in the house is upstairs, and sometimes, if I forget to turn on the hallway light...I know I'll miss steps, esp when I reach the end (where I think there's step, but really isn't). So, I make sure that when I walk up the stairs, my toes touch, on each step, right to the inner edge, so I can feel and thus, tell if there's more steps to go or not.

Anyone else aware (and wary) of the predisposition to sensotard moments, who've come up with little 'tricks' to tackle it?

I do the same thing with the stairs, it works wonders. Other than that I can't think of many other systems I have but I can give you a pretty sweet sensotarded moment. Over the last few weeks I've been digging up and moving a lot of composted dirt to help my parents fertilize their pastures. I've moved around 200 wheelbarrows so far and I've had no problems with them...until yesterday. I was pushing a load to one of the pastures, and around midway through the pasture is a blatantly obvious pothole that I had had no trouble avoiding up to this point, but this time it would be different. I was going along, pushing my wheelbarrow, lost in my head when suddenly the wheelbarrow stopped, and given the momentum I had I managed to push it over and do a flip over it. After that I just sat there for half a minute and felt hurt and dumb.

 

[Virtual ghost]

I have an S mom.
She always had me, when I was younger and lived with her, look for something in the fridge.
Every time I opened that DAMN fridge, I couldn't see what she asked me for and instantly forget what it was I was supposed to get. After the fourth time of calling out to her about "what was it you wanted now again?" or "I can't see it, where is it?"(I got an explanation but I still couldn't see the damn thing); she comes into the kitchen and either:
A. I hold the item in my hand/alt. have already placed it on the table without thinking about it.
B. Is right in front of me and she's all pointing at it for me to grab it.
C. Actually isn't there! :3

And I always get yelled at for not finding it. As if it is OBVIOUS where it is. . .
YARGH! I still get worked up just thinking about it. :E|


This helped me greatly. I am now a proud owner of some S-skills. :3 (Haven't read functions as it is.)

That is not so bad.

It becomes bad at the level when you start to search for your wallet in a fridge and you wonder why you can't find it.

 

[sculpting]

I think I mentioned earlier (or in another thread??) that I keep my shoes that I'll be wearing the next day in the fridge (wrapped up, of course). That way I don't leave the house without my lunch because I have to physically open the fridge on the way out. The downfall is that I often change my mind about what shoes I'll wear, so I end up with like 10 pairs in there.

Then it snowballed from there. That fridge keeps everything contained and away from the rest of the chaos. So if I have an important meeting the next day, all my paperwork also goes into the fridge. Now since I rarely cook, the whole thing is quite stupid. I always have my shoes, keys, documents and other random shit in the fridge, but never any food. There is no lunch to forget.

Holy shit! That is hysterical! Again you get amazing points for just plain awesomeness! However I do admire the effciency of the system, with checks and balances built in.

I have the shoe problem in my car. I drive a standard and cannot drive in sandals or heels so I take them off and shove them under the seat. Then I get home and walk indoors barefoot.

I have like four pairs of shoes in the car and then somedays I wont be able to find any shoes to wear to work cause I forgot where I left them.

 

[jenocyde]

I had to get rid of my car, puppy - it was like a giant handbag on wheels. It took too much effort for me to tear apart my place looking for something and then having to go outside and tear up the car to continue the search. The less space I have, the less odds I have to misplace things. This is why I own practically no furniture. I can quickly eyeball a room and see that the missing object is not on the floor, and thus, not in the room. I suck.

 

[sculpting]

I had to get rid of my car, puppy - it was like a giant handbag on wheels. It took too much effort for me to tear apart my place looking for something and then having to go outside and tear up the car to continue the search. The less space I have, the less odds I have to misplace things. This is why I own practically no furniture. I can quickly eyeball a room and see that the missing object is not on the floor, and thus, not in the room. I suck.

hahaha YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!!

I have two cars (I live in texas). One I drive and is overflowing with junk-toys, shoes, clothes, a pile of books I read when the baby goes to sleep on car rides. The other is my old minvan that has a cracked block. I put all the recycling stuff in it to take down to the recycling area, then the block cracked-six months ago! It is still sitting there full of paper and cardboard, and plastic bottles. I keep thinking I'll put it on craig's list for free, but I think I lost the keys....

I actually was glad to move into a tiny condo as I had to get rid of much of my stuff. However I still have piles...