An odd psychological thingummy test
May. 3rd, 2007 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynThe idea of this is to answer the questions, before you read any of the information about these questions underneath the cut.
1. You are not alone. You are walking in the woods. With who?
2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal is it?
3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal?
4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing and before you is your dream house. Describe it.
5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?
6. You enter the house. You walk in to the dining room and see the dining room table. What do you see on AND around it?
7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?
8. What do you do with the cup?
9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. What kind of body of water is it?
10. How will you cross the water?
1. The person who you are walking in the woods with is the most important person in your life.
2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life.
3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems.
4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems.
5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced.
6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, or people, then you are generally unhappy.
7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship.
8. Your disposition of the cup is representative of your attitude.
9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire.
10. How wet you get in crossing the water is indicative of the relative importance of your sex life.
The first thing that I realised is that all these psychological tests based on what mental images float through your brain seem to break on my brain, which seems to be a big storehouse of mental images from memory, from films, from pictures, from stories, and I think they are somewhat stronger than my subconscious desire to tell me what I'm secretly thinking.
I mean, my mental story started with myself andpierot walking through a wood. This is reasonable - he is quite an important person to me. The odd thing was that the image of us was much more loosely defined than the image of the wood we were walking in. The wood we were walking is in a wood near my father's house in Lambourn. I went for a walk round it with melsner when he was visiting. I used to go riding there a lot. I've spent hours pottering around that forest, especially in spring, like it is now, when the bluebells are out and grow to knee height.
So, all my answers from then on in were limited by what I thought might feasibly be in that wood. My dream house right now is probably in London. But that wouldn't fit in the wood, and so I described a big red brick house, with crooked staircases and little windows, because there is a really nice house like that near the wood I was thinking of. The body of water was simply the pool that I used to go swimming in as a kid. I like the pool (although it always scared me from when I was about eight, when my mother decided to ban swimming there after a kid drowned there due to cramp - it was a chalk spring, and the water was always very cold compared to the ambient temperature around it.
And my animal? A squirrel that I cooed over. That's not how I deal with my problems, but it is the animal most likely to be in those woods.
I've had this issue before with a couple of these psychological tests. I think my English Lit teacher at school thought I was crazy - we were meant to write a story which started with us walking along a road, and describing it. I had Mont St Michel on the brain, due to a visit there the week previously, and Hamlet floating around in my head as well. The mental imagery came from there. I'm sure we can all predict where it progressed to...
Do these tests work for any of you?
1. You are not alone. You are walking in the woods. With who?
2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal is it?
3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal?
4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing and before you is your dream house. Describe it.
5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?
6. You enter the house. You walk in to the dining room and see the dining room table. What do you see on AND around it?
7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?
8. What do you do with the cup?
9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. What kind of body of water is it?
10. How will you cross the water?
1. The person who you are walking in the woods with is the most important person in your life.
2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life.
3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems.
4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems.
5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced.
6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, or people, then you are generally unhappy.
7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship.
8. Your disposition of the cup is representative of your attitude.
9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire.
10. How wet you get in crossing the water is indicative of the relative importance of your sex life.
The first thing that I realised is that all these psychological tests based on what mental images float through your brain seem to break on my brain, which seems to be a big storehouse of mental images from memory, from films, from pictures, from stories, and I think they are somewhat stronger than my subconscious desire to tell me what I'm secretly thinking.
I mean, my mental story started with myself and
pierot walking through a wood. This is reasonable - he is quite an important person to me. The odd thing was that the image of us was much more loosely defined than the image of the wood we were walking in. The wood we were walking is in a wood near my father's house in Lambourn. I went for a walk round it with melsner when he was visiting. I used to go riding there a lot. I've spent hours pottering around that forest, especially in spring, like it is now, when the bluebells are out and grow to knee height.So, all my answers from then on in were limited by what I thought might feasibly be in that wood. My dream house right now is probably in London. But that wouldn't fit in the wood, and so I described a big red brick house, with crooked staircases and little windows, because there is a really nice house like that near the wood I was thinking of. The body of water was simply the pool that I used to go swimming in as a kid. I like the pool (although it always scared me from when I was about eight, when my mother decided to ban swimming there after a kid drowned there due to cramp - it was a chalk spring, and the water was always very cold compared to the ambient temperature around it.
And my animal? A squirrel that I cooed over. That's not how I deal with my problems, but it is the animal most likely to be in those woods.
I've had this issue before with a couple of these psychological tests. I think my English Lit teacher at school thought I was crazy - we were meant to write a story which started with us walking along a road, and describing it. I had Mont St Michel on the brain, due to a visit there the week previously, and Hamlet floating around in my head as well. The mental imagery came from there. I'm sure we can all predict where it progressed to...
Do these tests work for any of you?
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Date: 2007-05-03 12:28 pm (UTC)Although, staring at the fox until one or the other of us slunk away is possibly quite accurate...
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Date: 2007-05-03 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 12:44 pm (UTC)9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire.
One of the huge lakes we lived beside in Sweden, where you could barely see the other side.
10. How wet you get in crossing the water is indicative of the relative importance of your sex life.
I'd jump in and swim.
Nuff said.
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Date: 2007-05-03 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 12:57 pm (UTC)For example, I imagined a bunny and I watched it hopittying about until it hopped off. I don't think that implies I have small, bunny sized problems and that I deal with them by ignoring them; rather it suggests that I have a reasonably good appreciation of the sorts of animals I am likely to find in a British wood and how I am likely to react to them!
Worryingly, I didn't even bother to cross the lake at the bottom of the garden, I just paddled a bit...
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Date: 2007-05-03 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 01:08 pm (UTC)And my actual dream house is a big round stone tower on a hilltop; but you don't get those in sunny beech woodland!
Anyway, I'm going to argue that there's nothing more durable than a chipped pottery cup that's been lying in the back garden since approximately Roman times.
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Date: 2007-05-03 01:14 pm (UTC)Well mine was a battered pewter tankard, half buried in the grass, but the principle holds
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Date: 2007-05-03 01:18 pm (UTC)What exactly does it tell you when the animal that's representative of your problems turns out to be a pig?
And when you go "oh. there's a lake in my way." and then just walk around it?
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Date: 2007-05-03 01:22 pm (UTC)When I was little I used to leave things in the garden all the time. Springtime used to be a time for discovering things in little houses buried amongst flowerbeds from the autumn before.
As I said to Jeni...
Date: 2007-05-03 01:24 pm (UTC)2) I saw a rabbit
3) It ran away from me
4) A rather nice Elizabethan mansion with lots of secret passages
5) No fences
6) A bunch of people sitting round gaming, a stack of books and a ready-prepared banquet
7) A solid gold chalice, studded with gems
8) I took it and stuffed it in my pocket
9) A large lake
10) I swam across.
Make of that what you will.
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Date: 2007-05-03 02:07 pm (UTC)It sort of went downhill from there.
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Date: 2007-05-03 02:09 pm (UTC)From this test I learned .....
Date: 2007-05-03 03:19 pm (UTC)The problems in my life are rabbit sized.
I deal with my problems by observing them until they dissapear.
My ambition to solve my problems is the size of a small stately home.
I have a closed personality and prefer people not drop by unannounced.
I am generally unhappy.
My relationship is as durable as a coffee mug.
My attitude to my relationship is to put it somwhere safe until it's owner claims it.
My sexual desire is about 50 round.
I walk round and avoid my sex life.
Not convinced.
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Date: 2007-05-03 03:47 pm (UTC)Silly test.
i'll give you the unedited answers... amusing.. now given different context!!!!
Date: 2007-05-04 02:28 am (UTC)2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal is it? a Male Deer and a Female Fox, both pass but we merely notice each other... the forest is populated with many creatures I dont look for them but sometimes they pop out.
3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal? We make eye contact and pass each other in respect, we walk the same worlds.
4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing and before you is your dream house. Describe it. a simple brick house with stained glass windows, and a chimney with a thin stream of smoke.... but the GARDEN!!!! It has herbs, vegetables and fruit trees, a small well, and a few small sculptures, off to one side is a place for sitting, it has a large smooth rock that catches the sun, there are little birds, lizards and other small creatures inhabit this place… the garden is alive and so is everything around
5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence? No only by trees and plants
6. You enter the house. You walk in to the dining room and see the dining room table. What do you see on AND around it? It is a clear table with a fruitbowl and flowers in the middle, a beeswax candle or two, the wood is dark from age but polished and well kept, there are several chairs around the table, and place mats but the crockery is on the sideboard, and the food is in the kitchen, and the people not here as it is not meal time... but thier scents are there and thier things are there, they will return when the time is right... a small bird flys past me and pecks at the grapes in amongst the other fruit in the bowl, I smile at this with fond amusement.
7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it? Ceramic, hand made, simple design, but the glaze is very pretty and shimmers in a subtle way.
8. What do you do with the cup? Pick it up and fill it from the well with water to drink, I pour some on the plants and then fill the bird bowl with water…
9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. What kind of body of water is it? A wide creek with a dam to one side (just as it was at my parents place)
10. How will you cross the water? There is a fallen log, it is old but wide and sometimes wobbly, but if you’re careful it is easy to cross. other times just for fun i'll sit and dangle my toes in it, but its more fun to push unsuspecting people in whilst crossing with you... they make a terrible splash... and sometimes if youre not quick enough they pull you in too....
My responses
Date: 2007-05-04 12:23 pm (UTC)1.Robin, my hubby.
2. A fox
3. The fox just stares at me then darts away
4. A white house - large at least six bedrooms or three windows across on the top floor - but cottagey in style with a rose trellis over the front door and a thatched roof that kind of thing
5. Yes, a wooden fence.
6. Lots of food on the table though worryingly some of it is meat including a huge great turkey in the middle, it looks a bit like a Christmas table or a Medieval feast with wine goblets as well.
7. A metal goblet, I think the Medieval feast on the table kind of inspired me to this.
8. A lake - not enormous like Windemere but big enough.
9. I swim across it!!!! ;-)
Re: My responses
Date: 2007-05-04 12:25 pm (UTC)