I just recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and I've been itching for a chance to use it. Now, for those who don't know, you really can't do anything of any professional importance with just a measly bachelor's degree in my field. For that, you have to get yourself a master's degree or higher, which is something I won't be getting around to for a little while. It does, however, enable me to abuse my knowledge for my own personal entertainment and for the enlightenment of others. I've frequented this site on and off for a long time now, and I've come to notice that there are some very interesting characters running amok around here. Recently, I've found myself wondering what exactly lies in the deepest, darkest depths of all of your collective minds. So I'm proposing a little game to help pull back the curtain for the education and amusement of everyone here.
How it works:
Most of you have probably at least heard of the inkblot test. Below is a series of random inkblots that have no inherent meaning in themselves. Traditionally, the test involves relaying what you see in them to a licensed professional, and then allowing them to interpret the meaning of whatever it was you saw. For example, if someone said they saw something like "a bunch of dead gay zombies having a dead gay orgy," the person administering the test might conclude that their subject had previously repressed gay impulses that they have since left behind, or more likely, that the subject is a closeted user of some combination of Wattpad, AO3, or CoG. Seeing as I am not a professional in any capacity, we'll have to turn to the next best thing to get our interpretations: the court of public opinion. Each participant in this game should post a list of their own impressions of each inkblot shown below. Then, everyone else can comment on their post to interpret what their impressions say about them. So without further ado, here are the inkblots you will be using:
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I was wondering why they weren't showing up. I managed to make them clicky, at least, but I had hoped to get them to show up on the page.
Lotta animals with superpowers here. Also a fractal. Clearly, you're into nerd stuff since you think about superpowers and fractals enough to see them in inkblots. But nerd tendencies encompass 90 percent of users here as a whole. There's more here. You probably want to see fantastical things in the day-to-day, perhaps to the point where you half-believe in things like cryptids and urban legends, or at least, you would like to. There are a couple of urban touches thrown in here, specifically the references to traffic cones and megaphone poles, that contrast with the animals in fantastical situations. The roadkill elephant is of particular interest here because it is here that the conflict is at its clearest. If we take the urban elements of these interpretations to represent modern life, and the animals as a symbol for the fantastic and magical (notice that it is always the animals that have something fantastic associated with them), then it isn't too much of a leap to say that you see the mundanity of 21st century life as a barrier to experiencing something richer.
There is a third category at play here beyond animals and urban objects. I see the spiky monster and four-legged people as separate from the regular animals seen here. The bear, lizard, horses and elephant are all clearly defined creatures, but these other two are vague, almost grotesque in nature. Notice first, how the four-legged people are in direct association with the traffic cones. If we are to stay consistent with our interpretation from before, this means it is somehow associated with modern life. It has, after all, forced us to live in ways we were never designed for. The shuffling of body parts into something new is an easy enough connection for that idea. As for the spiky monster, it is directly attacking Jesus. Jesus, in this instance, may be directly related to religious beliefs, or He may just represent the traditional values of Western culture as a whole (assuming you're from the west). To put it simply, he represents the way things have always been done, or the old order of society. The spiky monster is representative of the force that is slowly eroding those values and order. You are probably bothered by it at some level, whether conscious or unconscious. You sense that the world is moving from something magical and cohesive towards something muddled and plain. You think of these things a lot, in some form or another, and are perhaps seeking ways to counteract them.
How close am I?
Huh...
The more I think about this, the more unsettled I am at how accurate this is. It was a tad confusing how you worded some things, but my brain seems to somehow make sense of the whole thing, so I can't pin anything down now. Although I personally feel like the spiky monster eating jesus is just me not liking how some people use religion as an excuse to do anything they want.
I'm going to go crawl into a corner and contemplate my life for a little bit now. Might as well try to have an existential crisis while I'm at it; It's been a while since I tried to make sense of the universe using flawed logic. (/hj)
Interesting. So, in your interpretation, Jesus represents religion, and the spiky monster is people twisting it?
I wasn't sure how close I was going to get with my interpretation because I'm half joking when it comes to this whole thread. Sorta satisfying that it made sense to you, though, or that you got something out of it at very least. Something to remember about these sorts of tests is that sometimes the results are as much of an inkblot as the images themselves. People put their own spin on what they think each response means. I'd be curious what would happen if other site members tried their hand at interpreting some of these.
There are two obvious themes here. The first is animals, specifically animals out in the wild based on the fact that the bears just ate salmon, and the weird creatures are climbing a mountain. Then there are the pelvises. They occur not once, but twice. We also have to account for two outlying factors, THE DARK LORD, and the pottery project. Now, it would be very easy to simply say "weird animals plus lots of pelvises equals something related to furry sex," but that feels like low hanging fruit. I prefer to see this set of interpretations as representative of the duality of man. The animals, in this case, seem very wholesome in nature. I base this assumption on the detail about the salmon, and the excitement you seem to be showing about the seahorses. You spend a lot of time focusing on the wholesome parts of yourself and your life, and you like it that way.
Then there are the pelvises. One thing that stands out to me about this detail is the fact that there’s no crossover between the pelvis related interpretations and the other ones. Whatever they represent, it’s not something that encroaches upon the “wholesome” aspects of your life, although it is still something you think about a decent amount. This could be related to the… erm… romantic aspects of your life, in some form or another. If this is the case, that would mean your thoughts about such things are present, but that this piece of your life remains in its own lane, so to speak, and doesn’t cross over into other areas.
I also have a hunch that you may be someone who appreciates simplicity. Your answers are fairly straightforward. I don’t really sense a lot of tension in any of them. Even “THE DARK LORD” seems more lighthearted, maybe because of the way it’s worded. I mean all of this as a compliment. You either live a pleasantly quiet life, or you don’t, but would like to.
What are your thoughts? How close would you say I am?
Thank you! I'm just sorta sitting on it for now. Probably gonna try to work on knocking out some of my student loan debt for a bit, then eventually go back for a master's of some sort.
I'm gonna give an interpretation now that I have a moment. One pattern I notice right out of the gates is that each and every response here has at least one living thing in it. Not only that, but most of them actively doing something. There's a small narrative around each one that I think is pretty interesting. You're probably more prone to see things not just as individual events, but as patterns. In other words, you're able to see the forest for the trees. If you've ever taken the Myers-Briggs, you probably got Intuitive over Sensing, if you have any idea what that means. (The second letter of your personality type would've been N, not S). There's some fantastical imagery here, such as gnomes and a monk with magical powers. The tiny baby is interesting because it's a slightly absurd detail in the technical sense. It seems like something you would see in a post-modern painting. Even with the otherworldly details, though, there's something grounded about all of these. If these were all rolled into a fictional world, I would guess the setting would be lower magic. You might enjoy more grounded fiction, and you may believe that the real world still has some secrets it's keeping back.
One other thing I think is interesting is the ambivalence of these interpretations. The man is reaching for a bat, but there's no mention of what he is going to do with it. He could be playing baseball, or he could be about to beat someone's head in. The bear is missing the top of its head, but the language here doesn't imply pain. The baby could be in peril, or it could just be hanging out there. Even the case of the monk, there's no sense that he's good or evil. This would imply that you see the world ambivalently. Perhaps you do your best not to judge the actions of others, or maybe you feel uncertain about what direction things are going. Or maybe it's something you simply don't think about much at all. Whatever the case, I think it's an interesting detail.
What are your thoughts?
1. Top down view of an Eldritch Dragon creature thingy.
2. Two bears high fiving.
3. Weird armor headpiece.
4. Plane flying over some water.
5. Fantasy map.
6. Top down view of a brain.
7. Some kind of a logo for a company of some sort.
1. Dragon Frog
2. Two bears high fiving
3. Two otters having a fish slapping contest
4. Heath ledger joker bird
5. Two guys losing the bobbing for apples game at the same time
6. Seahorses
7. Flying lizard skeleton
1. A demonic being eating hearts
2. Two old ladies playing patty cake together
3. Otters climbing a mountain
4. A grinning gremlin's face hovering over you as it watches you die
5. A burnt butterfly
6. A weirdly deformed sheep skull
7. A unicorn skull
I see a vague silhouette of a woman with horns. She's sitting on the floor with wings on her back, or wing thingy's anyways.
I see a face with some leather contraption over the mouth.
I see animals holding hands in a circle around something that looks like a kebab in the middle? The pink ones on the side look like small, mammalian creatures. Potentially worship of the greatness of the Shish kebab?
Image four looks a lot like a lizard's skull to me.
I see some weird looking, stubby panda creature thing.
I see two weird, upright, hooved, alien-esque creatures facing off ready to fight. Dicks rubbing as can be seen at the bottom.
I see some sort of sea creature from the depths of the Mariana Trench. It looks like it'd make for a good skateboard, too.
Am i cooked?
I'll get on this soon! I've had some real life stuff to deal with, but I haven't forgotten about this!
This time it was a group of aggressively gay Hippies. Should have them corralled within the next few hours or so. Or I might disappear for another four years. Time will tell.
1. two kingly lemmings each ponder a pink cloud while a giant flower sits between them. 2. Two bears high-fiving. I can't see this one as anything else. 3. A funny-drawn medieval lion ponders its reflection in the loosiyana bayou (sideways) 4. A frog, after drinking a potion that made everything but its bones invisible, tried to put on drag queen makeup but wound up making a mess and now you can barely see the frog skull underneath the splotches. 5. One of those skull guys from those old newgrounds games trying to disguise itself as a panda. 6. Sad seahorses who can't stand to look at each other after what they've done. 7. Now look here mister, I don't know where you get off posting shit like this on a public forum, but consider yourself warned. You nasty-ass bitch!
When I saw this thread and read a bit through it I wanted to try but I can't see the images. :(
You're replying to the wrong person. Here's a little tip: in the top-right corner of the thread, you'll see 'threaded view.' If you click that, it will rearrange the format so you can see who's responding to who. Probably responding to the wrong person anyways. Lol
Click the links. I messed up the image embedding, but those links will pull them up.
I suppose I'll make a response and see if anything has an interpretation for me.
1) A witch splitting a blood moon in half
2) A bear and a rabbit high-fiving. There's blood coming out of their knees and something spiritual hovering over their heads.
3) Two tigers crawling up a demon to escape from hell to the top of a mountain.
4) A Genie with red shoes at night
5) I'm with a lot of other people here. This one's a panda bear.
6) This one's either a planet or a gigantic pillbug all rolled up.
7) A boar-crab hybrid stabbed through with a sword like a spit.
After typing these out, I think I need to go think about my life for a bit.
1. The head of a demon and red fires in the middle and around its horns
2. Two elephants smacking their trunks to each other's trunks as like a form of high five
3. Two wild cat looking animals walking up mountains on each side
4. Weird duck with big black soulless eyes staring into my soul
5. Two people standing back to back
6. Mysterious forest
7. Cool legendary sword made out of bones
Albinism -> Eyes -> Blue eyes -> Europe -> Adolf Hitler
Kinda feels like "history" or "continent/country" pages should be banned. Too easy to get to Hitler from those.
For someone that's making a big fucking deal about going to Mexico you sure are fucking around on here a lot.
Busy republishing your shitty story-game that you know is shitty and doesn't meet site criteria.
Yeah. The one that's been unpublished again.
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