Intuiting
Abstract perception
Experience through the generated symbolic reality of concepts, meanings, and fantasy.
The world is read through hidden relations and interpretive structure.
Thought operates through models spanning theory and time.
Attention is carried by a constant inner stream of scenes and words.
General meaning
Virtuality
Biological Level
Reduced interoception, loose body schema
Motor imprecision, diffuse gaze
Cognitive Level
Speculative, hypothetical information
Psychological Level
Self as mind
Social Level
Untested long-horizon ideas, humanity-scale purpose
Clusters
Agree
- I often play mental games where imagination runs off to invented worlds.
- Spells of dreaminess come over me.
Disagree
- I prefer working with tangible things to invented ones.
- I dislike empty lofty dreams and prefer living real life.
Agree
- I am sensitive to very subtle and faint probabilities.
- Foresight, premonition and forecast are what I am about.
Disagree
- Speculative assumptions are alien to me.
- In my assessments I am always a sober realist, relying on gathered facts.
Agree
- I have gotten up at night to note down a thought.
- Ideas interest me more than putting them to use.
Disagree
- A benefit today beats an eternal truth.
Agree
- I often sink into the future with dreams, hopes or fears.
Disagree
- I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
- I dislike talk of variants and possibilities.
Agree
- Lost in thought, I have ended up on the wrong street.
- A thing in plain sight can escape me.
Disagree
- I know where my things are at a glance.
Agree
- The world sometimes feels staged or not quite real.
Disagree
- I am firmly in the here and now.
Agree
- Stairs in the dark catch me out.
- I fumble with clothes and laces.
Disagree
- My hands do what I want at once.
Agree
- For moments I sometimes lose contact with reality.
- Sometimes I seem to dissolve in the universe, forgetting my body.
Disagree
- I mainly go by what is familiar and proven.
Agree
- My mind often wanders, unable to focus.
- My fantasy gets going from the merest trifles.
Disagree
- Thoughts of the past and future occupy me little, I mostly live in the present.
Agree
- The purpose of humanity interests me more than my own.
- Big-scale ideas visit me daily.
Disagree
- Philosophizing tires me.
Agree
- I enjoy imagining how the past could have gone differently.
Disagree
- I want things I can check with my own eyes.
Agree
- With my eyes shut I start to sway.
- I can drift off a straight line without meaning to.
Disagree
- My balance is steady.
Agree
- My thoughts can take off without me.
- My inner voice never goes quiet.
Disagree
- I can direct my attention wherever I choose.