[curiosity] self-knowledge, self-awareness

[wispfox]

Random bits of questions, more or less related to other conversations I'm having elsewhere. I'll reply to the things I ask in a comment.


-Do things in your head sometimes surprise you?

-If things in your head ever surprise you, how do you handle it?


-Do you feel like you know yourself very well?

-If you don't feel like you know yourself very well, do you want to? Do you feel like it affects your life in any way (positive or negative)?


-Do you feel like it's important to check in with the stuff in your head regularly, or are you confident that you will know about changes in your head when they happen?

-Do you feel the need to share changes in your head with other people? If so, who (names not needed; their relationships to you would probably be useful), and why? If not, and if you can explain it, why not?

[edit: I'm asking this because I'm curious as to how other people's brains might work in this regard]

Comments

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Things in my head sometimes surprise me, although not all that often at this point. Thankfully.

When things surprise me, I feel an intense, driving need to figure out why they happened, what's the likely cause, how it can be avoided, and how it can be explained. Preferably, I like to do this investigation with other people to get additional viewpoints (and, since I include those people I am closest to, so they know what's going on in my head!), as well as to share any insights I might find.


I feel like I know myself reasonably well, and far, far, far better than I did, say, 3-4 years ago.

When I did not know myself very well, I wanted to, but I didn't understand where to start, and wasn't completely conscious of how many different ways that fact was affecting me.


I do feel a need to check in with myself regularly, especially if I know there are extra stresses in my life. I do _not_ tend to become aware of changes in my head immediately, because they percalate up to a conscious level at an variable rate.

I very much feel a need to share changes in my head with the people I'm closest to, because it feels like things they should know about, and be involved with exploring. 'People I'm closest to' is the best description of the people I feel the need to share everything with I can come up with, and who is included in that description varies depending on the type of information in question. Some people always get such info, some don't.

[beowabbit]

I do _not_ tend to become aware of changes in my head immediately, because they percalate up to a conscious level at an variable rate.

I don’t always know exactly what’s going on, but I always know that something’s going on. (And I usually have a general sense about where in my personality it’s happening.)

I very much feel a need to share changes in my head with the people I'm closest to, because it feels like things they should know about, and be involved with exploring.

Yes, and also with anybody the changes are actually about.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Yes, and also with anybody the changes are actually about.

That, too. :)