This isn't what Ne does, but it's a text type reading of it rather than a living example of it.
Ne doesn't really 'peel of layers of onions' - it might do if it's Ne blocked with Fi, but what Ne does when it means 'potential' and 'hidden' is to combine one external with another external into wholeness.
I don't have Ne so I can only give you an example of Ne from someone else.
Socionically
An IEE I know who became interested in socionics, and intuitively combined socionics with anthropology, that is, to combine the court and societal 'honor' system of Japanese society - Fe, with the burden of 'self-guilt' and 'telling the truth' which is the court and societal expectations of Western society which is Fi.
ie, ... it is a shame vs guilt thing.
So combining socionics, with cultural and societal living across the world. It's combining externals with externals to create a unified external picture.
That's Ne.
I know you don't (or probably don't) want to entertain the idea of 'not being IEE' but ... you don't express Ne!
But you are still a wonderful person