Originally Posted by
Melody Man
I really like this point too, although it has been explained in a variation of ways, gradually growing on me throughout the years, and not only noticeable in the dominant types, but all the others.
When watching an interesting movie for instance, an Ne type will extract an intuitive understanding of all the different things going on, stay interested in it throughout its presentation, and be able to make many intuitive leaps and connections about the movie, solve it within their own Ti or Fi realm. An Ni type bound to also like the movie will gain more of an internal intuitive impression, more or less reflecting their own state, and so more of the appreciation for it comes from the subjective realization of intuition, and not always actually what is there and what is meant, but rather what they want it to mean from imagination, or what they take it to mean from their introverted storehouses of abstract feelings or experiences, conceptually. Objective vs subjective intuition aims. This is of course not to be confused with the other functions, purely for intuition sake. It can be replaced by using the other functions though.
Because intuition is so counter-reality, it often feels to me like Ni on the outside is much more go-with-the-flow and natural, with a tendency to house norms and expectations, an opposite to what it really is on the inside, where as Ne, especially Ne-dominance, always seems like this perched position representing a mobile ahead-of-everyone ideology.