The word you're looking for might be "metacognition" ("thinking about thinking"), and I agree that it's a fascinating concept. We spend our whole lives locked i

The word you're looking for might be "metacognition" ("thinking about thinking"), and I agree that it's a fascinating concept. We spend our whole lives locked inside our skulls looking out, and it can be fascinating to imagine or learn about how others experience their cognitive worlds. To me, that's one thing I enjoy about teaching- a lot of the time, you're having to try and figure out how a student is perceiving the subject or lecture. In essence, you're constantly reverse-engineering your students' perceptions of what you're telling them.