Me too me too me too! Me is curious ^__^

Welcome to the forum!

I agree with @morsecode about you being NiTe.

Some signals:
- Hypnotic/zoned-out eyes (Ni)
- Lead with eyes (P-lead)
- Tension in cheeks (Fi)
- Monotone voice (Te)
- Quick/blunt eyebrow raises (Te)
- Darting eyes that don't move "fluidly" (Se)
- Deadpan face (Te)

Deadpan face, OMG xD *facepalm* I've never realized... Hmm, now that I think of it, many pictures of me look like I had no particular expression at all. Sometimes I try to get a pretty picture of myself but get frustrated when my face just looks the same in every one of them until I really try to express all the positivity in me, then I get a happier picture I actually like, picture where I can even look very happy

I'd love to know how you differentiate Ni from Ne. Someone who had educated himself and tried to learn this stuff once told me that I'm obviously Ne-user. How do those differ, why Ni over Ne?

Calla
Your "deadpan" face and eyes look very much like mine. You're not alone in having an "expressionless" face XD
Btw, in another thread you mentioned that you are from Scandinavia. You don't happen to know how to speak swedish, do you?

I don't think I have a "professional" understanding of the functions but I think one classic way of describing Ni vs. Ne is that Ni wants to come to that one conclusion. It gets bothered by too many ideas, while Ne wants more. It likes expanding its ideas while Ni does the opposite.
^ I'm just speaking about the functions alone here. It has a lot to do with how the functions interact with each other as well.

I feel the same way. I've always wished there was this device I could copy my thoughts and awareness of some particular issue into and then just give it to someone I want to share that information with. It's frustrating to talk about other people at times because I'm well aware that we have very different awareness of the topic and while it could be used to expand the awareness of both of us, it also makes it challenging to talk about the exact thing you'd like to talk about. Often I'm aware of something that's just impossible to explain or tell to the other so that he would understand it the same way I do. I've thought that's just normal human behavior but I feel the same way, relating to other people is not that easy and it's impossible to share the same kind of awareness of something and that makes me feel very much alone with my thoughts at times.

Men javisst kan jag prata svenska! Men inte så bra or så mycket, jag pratar engelska och finska mycket bättre.

I used to study psychology as a major but I switched to "harder" sciences and one reason was that it was frustrating for me to study multiple theories of the same phenomenon while they admitted that none of them was really true. It seemed very pointless to me. I would have thought just one of them would have represented the reality the most even if the model wasn't perfect. So in a way I relate to Ni, getting bothered by too many ideas. But I also like to keep many ideas and options open for my own life. I find thinking "I only have this one thing I can do" pretty much awful! I want the freedom to explore and do what I find interesting. I get easily bored with something so having many things to do keeps me more motivated. It's not that I wouldn't want to succeed and accomplish though.

All in all, I find it hard to tell which one I prefer more, Ne or Ni.


Thanks for your feedback and the link, I'll investigate that!

Yeah, my smile is awkward, I don't even like smiling, it's literally painful if I'm "asked" to smile for pictures or something. I don't like to express my emotions in general either. Enthusiasm yes, others no. And I hate it when people assume I should react in some way, also that makes me feel awkward. Could that still be aux-Fi?

Calla, I felt, from your video, that you have a very well developed Fi (there is something very sweet, soft, teddy-bear-like about you, as opposed to be more bad-ass NiTe persona). Having heavy Fi could be why you think it is secondary... but it can be very well developed and still 'lower' process. You may be NiTe(Fi) - at least at this moment of your life. I will also be happy to analyze a new video of you if you eventually decide to upload it.

- You have the functions Ni/Se and Te/Fi.
- Your eyes oscillate between looking very alert (Se) to looking more hypnotic (Ni).
- Your eyes toggle a lot (Se) and you also have some Se momentum.
- Your body has a light sway to it which looks like Ni.
- You have much tension in your cheeks (Fi). They also look "sullen", if I'm not mistaken. This might mean that you're Fi heavy, but you also have those "asymmetrical smiles" that disarm your deadpan face and they generally mean that Fi is below Te.
- You also have Te which you, for example, can see from your eyebrow raises (they're quick and blunt) and hear from your monotone speech.
You look like a P-lead (lead with your eyes + swaying body). I'm still going for NiTe because the alternative type would be SeFi and I can't see much of that.

Some topics interest you more than others and that's how it is for most people. You're not going to be equally enthusiastic about everything. If it has anything to do with your functions, it might be your Fi (in this case, at least). When you're talking about this topic you can tell that you have strong personal feelings attached to it and that brings out your Fi more.