question on Si

[consentingadult]

I have a question for leading/creative Si types:

my gf asked me yesterday: "can you experience a flavor by just thinking about it?" (i.e. without eating or drinking).

I admitted I can't, and she claims she can (note that she doesn't know about Socionics).

Do leading/creative Si types have this possibility?

[Elro]

Hmm, I can sometimes, but I doubt I'm Si. (And obviously, it isn't nearly as strong as when I'm actually eating or drinking... It's more of a memory.) I think it's easier to do with things I've had often.

[Mediator Kam]

I can think of how good the food I was having was, and maybe get into the mindset of actually eating slightly, but I definitely cannot experience food in that way.

[Creepy-Diana]

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[dbmmama]

I just tried this and imagined eating chocolate cake, tuna, orange juice, grape soda, and my answer is yeah, but the taste doesn't remain after you stop thinking about it, and it's more the texture and temperature than the taste anyway, because I hardly taste my food when I'm eating for real. I kind of just wolf it down.

Perhaps I just have a good imagination for that kind of thing.

haha. i wolf my food down too. ive called it that since i was a kid. but, if it doesnt taste good (which most foods dont to me), i wont eat it.

the only thing i can think of about the original topic is when someone else mentions a certain food, a strong tasting food, like citrus or salsa, my mouth waters. otherwise, i dont care about food very much.

[Elro]

Operant conditioning
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[implied]

I have a question for leading/creative Si types:

my gf asked me yesterday: "can you experience a flavor by just thinking about it?" (i.e. without eating or drinking).

I admitted I can't, and she claims she can (note that she doesn't know about Socionics).

Do leading/creative Si types have this possibility?

not claiming Si, but i can usually visualize things in my head. as weird as it sounds, i feel like i have a "third eye" or something. that is, i can sort of sit back and imagine what a lot of situations might be like. regarding sensations, i can certainly imagine what it feels like to, i don´t know, eat a lemon, chocolate cake, whatever. i can usually identify these things pretty well as well. but i also can´t really "substitute" things like some pèople can. like imagining a chocolate cake in front of me or having some chocolate cake substitute is never, ever, ever, ever as satisfying as actually eating a chocolate cake.

[dbmmama]

not claiming Si, but i can usually visualize things in my head. as weird as it sounds, i feel like i have a "third eye" or something. that is, i can sort of sit back and imagine what a lot of situations might be like. regarding sensations, i can certainly imagine what it feels like to, i don´t know, eat a lemon, chocolate cake, whatever. i can usually identify these things pretty well as well. but i also can´t really "substitute" things like some pèople can. like imagining a chocolate cake in front of me or having some chocolate cake substitute is never, ever, ever, ever as satisfying as actually eating a chocolate cake.

my third eye experiences can be *better* than the "actual" thing. it has been a bit frustrating my whole life when the "actual" doesnt measure up.

[Park]

Do leading/creative Si types have this possibility?

I do. It's one of the things I do very naturally, probably because I remember tastes/smells/images/sounds very vividly. I often imagine tastes before I mix certain foods together or when I decide what I want to drink after/during a meal. I also experiment with food a lot, always trying out different combinations etc...

[Rubicon]

I imagine tastes correctly, but it's nothing like experiencing them.

[consentingadult]

I asked my gf last night: "So if you can experience the flavors, why bother eating at all?" She said that the real thing is more intense, and also leaves an aftertaste (is that an English word?).

My sensations don't go beyond strong cravings, alas (ETA: meaning: a void that needs to be filled up). But when I do eat, I do enjoy it intensely, no wolfing away for me. In fact, it is since this gf that I notice I 'silently' enjoy food and drink, because I constantly go like "hmmmm" and "yummmmm" all the time, which amuses her to no end.

[Creepy-Diana]

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[consentingadult]

yes, it's a word. It's what I meant when I said you stop tasting it when you stop thinking about it. There's no residual flavor left behind. But the reason I'd give for eating is that imagination doesn't fill your stomach.

Not an unimportant aspect of eating indeed!

[xyz]

I have a question for leading/creative Si types:

my gf asked me yesterday: "can you experience a flavor by just thinking about it?" (i.e. without eating or drinking).

I admitted I can't, and she claims she can (note that she doesn't know about Socionics).

Do leading/creative Si types have this possibility?

I can reproduce lots of sensations this way, but I prefer not to, because it makes me want to taste it/feel it/hear it/etc again.

[Ms. Kensington]

I can reproduce lots of sensations this way, but I prefer not to, because it makes me want to taste it/feel it/hear it/etc again.

why don't you do it again? You mean you have to actually go out oand see it/taste it/feel it/hear it? hehe

[xyz]

why don't you do it again? You mean you have to actually go out oand see it/taste it/feel it/hear it? hehe

Yeah, I'm too lazy to get my ass up and experience all that stuff again. Experiences just seem to happen to me. Me trying to recreate experiences can be catastrophic, like that one time I ended up in a room full of people vomiting and me holding a fucking bowl because I thought I was gonna too for the entire night while I thought my friend was either dying or shitting his pants.

True story!

[Ms. Kensington]

Yeah it's weird, I feel like if you can recreate the sensation you would just do it all day in your head. That's what an intuitive would do?

Experiences just seem to happen to me.

*sigh* sounds nice

[consentingadult]

So far I think this has been a good discussion. I never realized that there were people who had this capability, and I've always wondered how there were people who could create fantastic food the way I pick my nose: without a lot of thinking involved. Now I feel like I somewhat understand this ability: if you can preconceive what something is going to taste like, it becomes a lot easier to improvise.

So in a sense Si is very much like Ni: where the latter tries to predict how events are going to unfold, Si can predict what the resulting physical experience will be. I think that's utterly cool!