Phenomenological Descriptions

'Sixth Sense' Intuition Intuition is a form of “knowing” (or a feeling of knowing ) that arises instantly, without relying on deliberate logical reasoning. It manifests as a sensation or emotion based on unconscious experiences and information, which may take shape as some kind of mental image and guide our decisions and actions. It can emerge as a hunch that something will go well and be positive (accompanied by emotions such as surprise  and excitement ) or, conversely, that something will go wrong and turn out badly (manifesting as sudden fear/anxiety or anguish ). At other times, it appears as a subtle feeling, which I call a ‘sense of conformity,’ when it has a more cognitive character. Intuition may or may not be confirmed. However, the focus here is to describe the experience of intuiting regardless of its truth — it is the experience of instantly receiving an answer or sensing an event, along with the feeling that it is, in some way, in accordance with the reality ...

Familiarity is the sensation or experience of recognizing something as already known or previously experienced, without necessarily being able to identify specific details or consciously recall the original moment or context.  This feeling can occur in various situations, such as when encountering a place, a person, or an object, and can be described as the impression that something is " familiar " or " common ," even if one does not know exactly why. Which is the correct logo? If you were unsure about which logo was the original and something made you choose one over the other, can you identify what influenced that decision?  Was there a ' somatic marker '—bodily signals that guide choices (Damásio, 1994)—that played a role in it? If so, what might it be? Try looking at both images again and observe what happens in yourself, noticing what makes you perceive one of them as more likely to be the correct one. Before moving on to my phenomenological description...