Seeing the immediate future is a delusion . Humans abjectly suck at making predictions and forecasts . This is fact and who tries to tell you otherwise is mistaken or selling snake oil . Ni , as I see it , is a mental habit that seeks out the character of the object or being or phenomenon the Platonic Ideas are a good example , though tainted by Plato ' s insistence on them existing outside reality , and everything being but an imperfect mirror . A modern Te take would just be a search for commonality , the doggishness of dogs or whatever . Kant called it the noumenon , thinginitself , that which can ' t be spoken of . If Ni is to be good at any kind of prediction , it is the loooong view inevitability that will befall something because of it acting true to its character .