It happened in a dream. So I was wondering if the dream was true.
I think of dreams as messages from the subconscious.
I still have a poor sense of types so I needed more distinction between INFJ and INFP. I really do not think a type is an act of will.
INFJs are Ni-doms. Ni-doms talk about life as if everything they do is an act of will. So being an INFJ itself, is an act of will.
I expected others to elaborate. Why would my dream tell me this? Did I have this dream because I am INFJ? Why not INFP?
Jung didn't say that INFPs have Fi and Ne. He simply said that they are Introverts with Feeling and iNtution as their two top conscious functions. So in Jungian terms, INFPs have Fi AND Fe, and have Ni AND Ne.
That's also supported by cognitive functions tests, because invariably, INTJs score highly in Te AND Ti, but higher in Te, and score highly in Ni AND Ne, but higher in Ni.
So it's often the case that INFPs who are a bit older like yourself have developed their Fi AND Fe, and their Ne AND Ni.
I need to know what INFP / INFJ is. I cannot just take an act of will and be INFJ if I don't know what I am actually becoming. My dream did not tell me.
Mostly, INFJs focus on a goal, and then go for it.
Their intuition tells them what is the best choice automatically. Jung pointed out that intuition and feeling are both rooted in the subconscious. So intuition rides on feelings.
Watch Antonio Damasio's videos on tests of people who had brain damage to the parts of their brain that handle emotions, and equally said that they don't feel feelings like love anymore. The unemotional ones did really badly on experiments designed to mimic the challenges involved in real-life decision-making.
So being an INFJ, almost makes you a superstar. I've seen them do things. They just seem to come up with answers and do them without thinking, that works amazingly well, without even trying.
They're also very good socially, and get on with most people.
They're also very aware of morals and usually are able to go for their goals without hurting people.
Where they have to be careful, is if they get too intensely emotional about something, then their intuition stops working well, and then they can be lead into problems.
As long as they don't get very upset or very angry about something, they seem to perform better than most people.
If poppy really is INFJ / an accurate representation of one.
I don't really know anything about Poppy. I only know that unpleasant image of her is nothing like the INFJs I know.
What I do know, is that I've noticed that when a friend has been talking to an INFJ, and then she'd gone off to talk to someone else, they said that it felt like they'd been in blazing sunshine and it felt like the Sun had disappeared.
That's how it feels around INFJs. They just naturally make people feel so good about themselves, that when they're not there and your day goes back to normal, it feels like you've been plunged into darkness.
poppy is alien and I am not.
They're not alien. But they
feel alien compared to most people. They often get on with INTPs, because INTPs also feel like they are aliens and they can thus relate.
INTPs usually feel like they are
more alien than INFJs. But we don't tell them that. We don't want to hurt their feelings.
