Thought leads, feeling stays close, and the two blur — which is exactly why you notice things other people miss. You pick up the mood of a situation and start analysing it in the same motion.
This makes you perceptive and occasionally unsure which signal is real. Some of what you sense is genuinely there. Some of it is your own state, and both arrive with the same confidence.
Mist is not a failure of clarity, it is water in the air — the two elements genuinely mixed. You are allowed to say "something is off here" without having proof yet. You have been right often enough.