Anyone else chameleon others?

About the energy empathy. I often get hunches of "what is going on", but other people tend to deny me. Then I open up why I think how I think, and they haven't even made the same notions that I have. They don't remember certain events happening, even though I'm sure they did.

So how can they be so sure that my suggestions of what could be going on are false, if they don't even make the same notions? Or if they did, they forget about them soon nor don't find them meaningful.

I'm pretty paranoid about this because I get told so often I'm wrong/thinking too much, but then again, I've been so many times right when others have told me otherwise.

  • All the talk about how you should trust your instincts. I'd want to, but there is some social pressure that I wish wasn't there. And I don't know what people are focusing their attention on if they don't make those notions that I find obvious and meaningful. Can we really compare our insights if they're built on completely different material? Well, maybe, but it's usually the case that others haven't even gathered any material in particular.

A bit of ranting here. This is one of my weak spots. I'd want to listen to other people as well regarding my insights but I don't know; if they're not really the type to form all kinds of hypotheses inside their heads all the time, can they really understand what it's like to be inside someone's head who does so?

I don't want to be uppity, but I become disappointed when I bring out some notion(s) that I find highly meaningful and the feedback I get is that no one has thought about it nor don't find it meaningful. Makes me feel like I've lost it even though I'm so sure my notions are real and usually indicating something.

Well, maybe I'm just imagining things but how about those times when my intuition was crystal clear and right and others still systematically denied me? I'm still basically using the same mechanisms to gather information and make insights. It can't be that broken in some cases and that well-working in other cases, or can it?

But, whatever. I know the insights are not leaving me alone even if others denied them and I wanted to deny them as well. They're always there in the background.

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