INFJ environmental sensitivity

Yeah, this goes all over the place. I am having a hard time sorting out what you are trying to get at.

 

I think he's talking about INFJ's being more aware of their surroundings. Picking out movements of others more easily than other types? If that's what the topic is then I'm not sure about it. I think the only reason I easily notice changes in my surroundings is due to about 11 years of martial arts training.

Maybe lack of sleep is getting to you? It is pretty late after all.(Unless you're in Europe where it's morning)

 

If he is asking about our environmental awareness, I am both extremely aware, and extremely unaware at the same time. I will notice people around me, get feelings about them, notice subtal ques that people will miss entirely. Yet when I talk to my friends, they show me how much around me I am missing, usually because I am so wrapped up in my head.

 

The INFJ would then be more attentive to these cues, picking up a sudden movement and then directing his attention to things which surround the movement?

In other words, the INFJ would be more inclined to use his peripherals to gauge what that person is doing in relation to what it is?

Is this what you are trying to say?

 

Well I can't speak for others, but can strongly identify with what you are saying candaylandjoe.

I seem to have an automatic sub-awareness of background noise, while talking on the phone or in person. Even when I'm alone, it still occurs. I find background noise, especially human voices very distracting if i cannot quite make out the conversation. I notice my mind trying to guess words or mood of the distant voices based on intonation and volume changes, but its an annoying habit. This also extends to non audible vibration such as that from engines, whether in a car or in a boat or aircraft. I can sometimes guess quite accurately the size of a room that someone is in (or the type of construction) on the other end of the phone, if the line is clear enough, which of course most people can probably do to some extent, but as you point out there is a heightened awareness of such irrelevant information in my mind. I put it down to an exagerrated 'threat' awareness, due to a generally anxious nature that I have when I don't feel in control of a situation, which in practicality is 99% of the time. Iv'e never been called a control freak, but I think I may have a repressed potential to be one! Fortuately for the world I dont have much power over others as yet...*muahaha*

Visually I tend to focus more on my immediate surroundings, but yet again find background movement a bit distracting to some extent. Though its a diminished awareness compared to the auditory one.

 

I'm with Mux, I am always highly aware of background noise to the point that it's hard to juggle back and forth before my brain maxes out. I seem to keep track of all the sounds that I've heard (I have lots of J) the same way I record people's movements, even subtle and inconsequential ones. I find myself asking "why" about everything I hear and see, and jump to quick conclusions, then am puzzled when the outcome doesn't fit with what I thought would happen. I wish I didn't analyze so much, it gets exhausting! On the other hand I feel that life is richer because I'm always looking for hidden meanings and possible outcomes...it's far from living life on the surface of things.