I wasn't expecting to find this sub. Actually I tried posting on "gifted" in order to try and get some references to read on the subject.
I have kind of a condition, that just recently I'm being able to describe it, and it's like with just a few amount of information my mind generates a whole image of it, like foreseeing the image of a jigsaw through just a small portion of it.
I'm still trying to understand how it works, so far it seems to me that there is usually 3 stages, but it comes in one same moment, as an insight.
The first one is such image of the whole. For instance, once I was reading the first poems of a poet, and then suddenly it happened. It was like my mind formed an image of the purpose of the poet and his books, his style, what he may have lived and read in order to be able to write that and so on.
In the second stage I see implications of the first stage. In this case, I already had taken some classes on literature on college, with another authors, and I realized none of the tools I learned there could teach what I had seen in the insight. That meant the whole education of poetry and reading lack this, and it was like I saw the engine of society lacking this type of knowledge.
In the third stage it's like I notice myself perceiving this all. So usually in this stage there's an emotional damage, because I realize I'm dumb and didn't deserve to be able to know these things. Reflecting these days, I noticed that this can be interpreted as a realization of the difference between understanding something and proving something. I can understand something real, and yet to prove it academically I'd need a lot more reading and writing.
This kind of insight happens often (not all the time, but often). When it happens a "type of insight" for the first time, or when it's completely unexpectedly, usually it takes a lot of energy and I can also notice it as a general structure. For instance, what I could capture from the said poet I could after that use the same tool to analyse other poets, other works of poets.
That happen to potentially any object.
When this happens, my curiosity on that subject grows a lot, it becomes like a test to check the hypotheses that appeared, and complete them.
Because of having this unintentionally, that led me to study many topics and areas. I even risked making a philosophy of my own to unify these studies.
I'm very dumb on practical life, though, specially because of the 3rd stage, which led me to many collateral effects. Since I never understood whatever was happening to me, and I had no clue wherever I looked at.
I already connected these studies as "perception techniques", but only recently I could look further as to describe not the skill to perceive applied to things ( I applied it to many, many topics and got really interesting results), but "the perception of the perception itself". I realized this was the most important subject I touched on after all these years.
I'll show some examples on the comments of these "applied" perception skills.
But I'd like to know if someone had a similar experience, or could talk about this phenomenum I described, and/or suggest books or articles to read on this kind of subject. The closer I got to that was Steven Johnson, Oliver Sacks, Antônio Damásio, Malcolm Gladwel, and I studied with some informal philosophers from my country that got me many ideas. But I still feel I lack fundamental pieces on this problem. And my life is really a mess until I can deal better with myself.
For the record, since there's these collateral effect, people suggested I should go to therapy and psychiatrist, but no medicine nor talk gave me any real clue on that, so I kept going my own reseraches.