Inkblot Test

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I took the Rorschach Inkblot test, and I was wondering if anyone else would like to try it out. It records what a persons perceives when they look at pictures created from spilled ink on paper. I hadn't read any background information, and just jumped in and took it.

You can take it on Wikipedia. Just search Rorschach test... Go to the tab labeled "the ten Inkblots." You'll have to put your hand over the text next to the Inkblots because it consists of the most common given answers.

When you are done, please post your answers as I am interested in what they are, along with your reflection on your answers along with the test itself if you'd like. (Even if you just say that it's ink spilled on paper).

I am quite befuddled after finishing this, because I thought that my answers were completely normal and it turned out that they weren't. After I read the most common answers, I had stared at the pictures and said, for example, "What?! How can someone get a horse out of that?"

My answers:
1) Two creatures that look like Pikachu, minus the tail, clinging onto a fountain-ish structure
2) Two hedgehogs high-fiving. The red part is blood.
3) Two alien Velociraptors
4) The bottom half of a tree giant
5) A butterfly
6) A very long butterfly with heavy wings
7) Two rabbit + ant hybrids
The upper half of a woman who is half praying mantis
9) A really angry face with fire on top of it
10) Insects flying to their colony

I feel like I didn't take it correctly.

If it's any help to what may have influenced my answers: I'm a 14 year old female who really likes cartoons, animals and animation.

I also thought that number 3 looked like velociraptors.

I know! The structure of the body is like a Velociraptor's, and the head is shaped similar to the aliens from Alien vs. Predator. The common answer was humans, but the anatomy is nothing like a human's.

http://www.test-de-rorschach.com.ar/en/inkblots.htm

1. - a mask
2. - two people dancing and high-fiving each other
3 - two women washing clothes or stirring a pot
4 - a scary bat
5 - luna moth
6 - an animal skin rug, like a bear or something, laid flat
7 - two people again, with headdresses on, women
8 - two mountain lions or snow leopards climbing up opposite sides of a mountain
9 - i could not see anything in this one, looks vaguely sexual, like a pelvis
10 - a bunch of insects and two pink centipedes or worms

i dont think my answers are "normal" either

#1 looks like an evil mask to me - others think its a butterfly

1) Bat
2) Two witches with red hats and boots
3) Spider
4) Bigfoot
5) A butterfly
6) Racoon skin
7) Maya or Inca siamese twins
8 ) Two iguanas climbing a tree and trying to freeze the top with cold rays
9) Seahorses
10) Needle nose pliers

Hmmm... I don't think my answers are exactly normal either...

1. Dark warlock with horned helmet surrounded by shrouded magic wings

2. Two humans sitting, hands pressed together, bleeding stubs for legs

3. Two butlers standing over a pot surrounded by music

4. Bovine skull, death, darkness, all encompassing

5. Butterfly

6. Animal skin rug with an insect like head

7. Creepy laughing faces

8. Two animals doing hydromancy over a fire with the horned god's face above the water

9. Fire dragons emerging from smoke over a fire and surrounded by fog

10. Eiffel tower over a blue pelvis surrounded by flowers

Evaluation:
"If you focus on tiny details of the blots instead of the whole thing? Obsessiveness.
Interpreting the white space around the blot? You have a negative/obstinate streak.
Seeing a lot of reflections and mirror images in the blots? Narcissism.
Seeing food images in more than a few of the inklbots? Dependency."

But modern research says that Rorschach's inkblot tequnique does not have validity in detecting anxiety, depression, ect. It actually has tended to label perfectly normal people as insane or sick.

These are the answers I'd give today. I know them to be "correct". Notice the quotes around the word.
1. A wolf's face
2. Two people in thick winter coats, dancing with each other
3. Two people cooking a meal together, with steam rising from the pot
4. A bear standing on its hind legs
5. A bat
6. An animal skin lying flat
7. Two people in a seated position facing each other
8. Two small mammals climbing an old tree stump
9. An abstract painting of a cat's face
10. A tidepool with sponges and corals, from a top-down view

These are the answers I vaguely remember giving when I took this test when I was 12. Not surprisingly, I failed it miserably.
1. An angry wolf
2. Two people fighting, with blood spilling
3. Two people trying to lift something, breaking a sweat in the process
4. A man looking at me angrily from above
5. A bat
6. Road kill
7. Two women arguing bitterly
8. Agahnim, the wizard from the Zelda video game
9. Someone injured in a nuclear explosion
10. Spills found on a house painter's uniform

I read somewhere about the answers that psych workers looks for. It's also better to say "it looks like", rather than "it is", because those inkblots aren't supposed to be anything specific, no matter how closely they resemble it.

"Good" answers:
* Human imagery, EXCEPT sex organs
* Friendly interactions between people
* Animals
* Plants
* Fine arts
* Pop culture

"Bad" answers:
* Hostility between people
* Blood, severed body parts, death, etc.
* Descriptions of ink blots looking threatening
* Sex organs
* Video game characters
* Any mentions of whitespace in inkblots (supposedly, it means you're schizophrenic)

This website also has some do's and don'ts when it comes to giving test answers: http://www.dandebat.dk/eng-personkort.htm.

how i see the inkblots:

1. two dancing bears, back to back
2. gnomes playing pattacake
3. hermaphrodites falling in love over coffee
4. a fat raptor headed man riding a motorcycle
5. flamboyant dancer doing the splits (view from behind)
6. sabertoothed tiger rug
7. lucy from the peanuts comic strip looking in a mirror
8. bears on a sailboat
9. pelvic bones
10. underwater scene from the little mermaid. and now i have the song "under the sea" playing in my mind.

1. ink stain
2. ink stain
3. ink stain
4. ink stain
5. ink stain

etc.

1. fox
2. spine
3. two MtF-Transsexuals and a butterfly
4. hide of a rabbit
5. bat
6. some strange animal hide thing
7. two natives of some tribe celebrating
8. fish
9. face of a yak
10. woman

1-4 spilled ink
5 resembled a winged insect
6-10 spilled ink
Took 3-4 of these tests every year in elementary school. See the same thing now that I did then.

my psychiatrists used to think i was being defiantly uncooperative when i explained what i saw in inkblots.
i will describe what i see in the first of the ten inkblots to illustrate.



i see a cartoon like fox or some other canine animal that has a narrow snout (and who is wearing a monocle) trying to crawl up a mirror using suction cups on it's feet who becomes startled by something it sees behind it and is in the act of turning around to gauge the situation with pricked up ears.

So far I know you can't dx anything with the inklblood test anyway...!

No shrink ever used them on me and if they did, I wouldn't take them serious.
But I think it's interesting what ppl see.