The Rorschach test!

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Post your remembered results if you ever took one! Also post your most wierd or funny perception of one of the ink blots.


I remember I got 10 for morbid, 4 for depression, 10 for anger, 2 for perception problem (I think that means half psychotic... the normal is 0 and psychosis is 4).


I had the proverbial double-birth (a uterus inside a uterus, stuck in there by a hymen that looks like it's made out of bone, a knife going up into it hoping to break the hymen and release the uterus trapped inside it). When he mentioned double-birth, I asked him, "Have you ever read Fifth Business?" He said it was his favorite book. "I'm glad you brought this up. Excellent book. Robertson Davies." I said, "I can really identify as the main character." He said, "I thought you would."


The wierdest answer I gave was for a blot that looked like dried blood mixed with something darker dried that was either decomposed flesh or iodine, pooled around a metal-like channel. It looked like blood and decomp flesh and iodine that dried before reaching the channel so I said it was "the drainage channel in an autopsy slab or even in a floor". I meant a morgue floor, but I think he may have taken it for a perception oddity and marked it accordingly; he never gave me the chance to explain, as he was hurrying to get the test done before the appointment was over!) I was a bit embarrassed. But I was even more embarrassed when he gave me another one that looked similar only it was colored; it had colors so the stuff looked like paint rather than human remnants and iodine. I said it was the same thing but in an art room. He mentioned the next day as I was marking it that the paint channels in the floor was rather unusual, and I said "no, I meant in a table with channels in it for easier cleanup but in an art room." I was thinking of an autopsy-style table, but in an art room. Silly me. I forgot that it's hard to paint on a piece of paper over an uneven surface, so it would be a very wierd art room. No wonder I got perception problem marks and so many morbid marks.

I had something that was LIKE a Rorschach test. It had similar cards, etc... The psychiatrist mentioned something about me liking girls. I can't help it if most had pertrusions that looked like feathers and breasts, and I saw squaws. Frankly, I never thought much about indians, and girls were far from the only thing I thought about. I was also only 6 at the time.

I didn't think there was a score. Frankly, I wasn't one to see nasty pictures, etc... Even when I saw monsters in the shadows, I didn't necessarily see them as ugly, etc...

I've never actually had an official one but my friend and I broke open some markers that we found and made our own. I think a lot of them looked like animals to me.

I took one at 13 and found them meaningless. The scientific validity of it has to be low.

I've a problem with the whole thing... way back in the dawn of time when I was just a wee lad... a psychiatrist gave me one of these tests... being me... I saw ink on paper.

I could describe all the whorls and bulbish extrusions and other what-nots about one of the pictures but it doesn't look like anything other than what it is.

It's not a lack of imagination, I'm a game creator as one of my "hobbies". (hehe yea, like any AS have real hobbies, obsession is probably the better term aye?)

I've just never been able to make that jump in seeing one thing and having it mean something else. Be it ink blots, clothes, facial expressions, etc...

I would say I took a few of these tests over the years. No one to my memory ever told me about my results. To be honest I also saw these tests as somewhat pointless too.

I don't think it's what you see, it's the psych's interpretation of what you see and tell them. You could tell them it's a bird, or a plane or Superman, and they'll come out with another completely different meaning, and it always gets back to sex (I might have had one done when I was being tested by the education dept to see what level I was at but not sure). I know I had the colour dot tests done, and at least found out I wasn't colour blind, even though I am legally blind. You can get some strange results with them, too.

I had one of these tests about 12 years ago. I don't remember much except that upon seeing one of the images I said it looked like "a party in my head". I think that was not a good thing to say. Afterwards, I asked the psychologist who tested me how I did. He said that according to the test, when I am faced with two choices, I choose the one with the negative outcome. I knew that was a bunch of crap. Late, when I saw the psychiatrist who sent me for the test, she wanted to put me on Halaperidol. She said it would "glue" me together. Then she demonstrated the side effects I might have. Various ticks and involuntary gestures. One was what looked like a lizard tongue. I asked her if anyone ever died from taking this drug. She thought a minute and said, "probably". I said "No thanks". I've been drug free except for an occasional xanax for panic attacks and aspirin for aches and pains. I was told by my doctor that it was wise of me to turn down that drug. I still have occasional parties in my head and I love them.

I took one of those tests. Almost all of them looked like cats or dogs to me.

I also thought a lot of them looked like cats and dogs! A lot of them looked like other organisms too, especially protista and fungi.


Oh yeah, I forgot, I also got 4 for narcissism because four of them seemed to have water reflections and reflections are supposed to be narcissistic. But my shrink says the person who created that test was too literal-minded.