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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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I’d be surprised if there were many takers on this. Go to the link and either here or opening Microsoft Word (or other writing asset) describe as quickly as possible your impression (s) WITHOUT scrolling past the actual images themselves to the author’s words beneath each. I already know I’m nuts but strangely didn’t see all the sex so often associated with this test. (I’m reminded of the old skit where the comedienne, when asked by the shrink why he sees so many sexual images here replies “Hey, they’re your dirty pictures!”) http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/rorschach.htm I've made three for each but do as few or many as you like. But quickly! Plate I A moth eaten moth, its ice shelves chipping away Cartoon siamese-twin dogs severing the bond Last night’s pre-drunk dinner meets sidewalk Plate II Old comedy routine employing a fake mirror The frustrated uncoupling of two chickens The last two standing on a dwindled earth Plate III Medieval miscreant, post drawn and quartered Bow tie civility, underhanded longings What’s left after “good is oft interred with the bones” Plate IV Unavoidable sign that it’s time for that stomach staple A thalidomide, elephantitis victim giving birth The sidewalk has eyes and sees our hidden tails Plate V An over endowed female still trusting her antennae A bi-sexual fairy mistaking a live wire for a perch The Caspian Sea finally meets the Black Sea Plate VI Poor Uncle Snuffy’s been grunting in there 2 days The run over former fat man now flat man A guy who wants to be anywhere but here Plate VII Ten little Indians, eight subtracted Simultaneous coin tosses from a see saw Aunt Minnie’s dinner view of Uncle Snuffy Plate VIII The frog I dissected in High School owns 2 horny dogs Aloof mother and two demanding children I recognize the ears on that Klansman Plate IX The scarab beetle buried with John Candy Your long lost Furby waiting to embrace you Silver punchbowl far too close to a smelter Plate X The Michael Jackson family coat of arms Crabs devouring a beached fish carcass A tattered teddy bear’s wishbone wants back in Poets against the war is redundant |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
I: pair of ice skaters spinning II: ducks playing patty-cake III: female pelvic bone IV: biker on harley with highway pegs V: butterfly caught in mid-wingbeat VI: starfish in slo-mo explosion VII: mounted horns, possibly moose VIII: scuttlebutt crab (horseshoe crab, finally remembered) IX: teddy bear X: angry Santa Claus with Naughty List [This message has been edited by Alicat (01-26-2005 09:47 PM).] |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Plate 1 A country with four lakes Plate 2 A man on small legs, pleading to God Plate 3 Two women over a large kettle; two cats falling from the sky; two doves hovering over kettle. Plate 4 A Grimms Brothers’ evil beast, with huge feet and a long thick tail. Plate 5 A bat. Plate 6 One of the cat cartoon characters, smooshed. Probably Sylvester. Plate 7 Cinderella’s two ugly sisters’ profiles Plate 8 A soft-shelled crab, plated for supper. Plate 9 A futuristic car with weapons attached Plate 10 Evil…evil being, evil animal. More of the evil being, surrounded in some type of fiery aura. |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
not making light of this, this is actually what i saw..someone save me from myself? shrugs i. two bees tearing apart an beetle ii. two people simulatneously playing paddycake and giving eachother the rasberry iii. a butterfly between two hermaphrodites holding a crab, two guitars float behind them iv. er..a giant lying back with an enormous..er.. v. an angel, with horns/antennae, landing vi. someone standing on a mountain top, or the earth itself as it explodes beneath them vii. two thumbs up viii. a samurai ix. a throne of some sort x. a bunch of strange things attacking two pigs tied to a stake |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Okay... if I wasn't convinced I was nuts before?.. I am now!... LOL 1. a bat 2 dancing bears a cat with 2 giant mice 2. 2 chickens playing patty cake (can't you tell a chicken from a duck, Ali?...grin) old hairy man with a leak in his head 3. 2 women standing over a caldron 2 women fighting over a shirt 2 women setting a butterfly free 4. a monster with large claws a dragon 5. a butterfly with a birth defect (overgrown wings) a little girl wearing a bunny hat and full length alligator gloves 6. roadkill fox a bird in a nest at the top of the tallest tree in the jungle 7. 2 young angels fighting over a cloud 2 bunnies argueing over who gets to hide the eggs 2 little girls with ponytails on a trampoline 8. a meditating eagle 2 cats climbing up opposite sides of a tree, 9. a lumpy bag of stuff Gizmo (from Gremlins), 10. 3 Indians on horseback 2 Indians dancing around a totem pole 'Electricity Boy' zapping a couple of his victims Told ya I was nuts...  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Plate 1 a four eyed she-wolf giving birth to twins through her ears Plate II a constipated shaggy dog Plate III Two ducks having lunch, with violinists playing atmosphere music Plate IV Oh my, now that's a three-legged giant on his back Plate V combo archetypes, a bird woman, morphing into other animals by the spread of wing Plate VI Fritz the Cat Plate VII Two thumbs up Plate VIII A Crab, partially unshelled Plate IX How the state of Louisiana would look if the Mississippi River didn't run through it, (the word "boot" is a hint) Plate X moshpit OH well...laughing ya'll KNEW I was nuts! |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Well, on the plus side, I'm saner than I thought. *cackles and falls over* |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Actually, you all seem pretty sane to me (though I'm hardly qualified to judge) Maybe a mental health professional will wonder in here in anonymity and share their view. On second thought at a hundred bucks an hour maybe not. Poets against the war is redundant |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'll have whatever Alicat is having--and bro, if you keep *cackling and falling over* we may have to duct tape you to your chair.  |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
I must be too tired to be very creative with these, but honestly? mostly I think whoever made up this test is the sick one. LOL. #1 my old FOX halloween mask, with two sets of eyes LOL #2 dancing chickens pat-a-caking, especially while listening to the Rolling Stones #3 two strange figures, indecisive? male/female cooking veggie stew in a kettle #4 frog road kill or a cowboy on a bucking bronco LOL #5 most likely a bat attempting to get aaway from this damn test #6 cat splat, poor kitty! #7 conjoined siamese twins before the big separation surgery #8 animals climbing the Himalayas or Denali? or maybe climbimng up the tree of life (Darwinian)? #9 another animal hide #10 swimming in someone's aquarium (while on on LSD) LOL. It sure looks like that to me, reminds me of swimming through some coral reefs.... OK, so maybe after I drink two glasses of wine I'll see something completely different... or perhaps, they're coming to take me away, hey hey???? |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
OMG, I just read what each of you posted. You ARE all nuts, you know that, don't you? I am the only sane one, these answers proved that beyond a doubt.    |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Odd thing is that I did that test completely sober with several cups of varnish stripping coffee in me. What I do find amusing are the multiple patty-cake entries, most fowl. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, birds of a feather well, you know...  poetically flocking around |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
ok, here is what I saw and from the Rorshach people, the ones in white suits with face masks on breathing the "good air": 1. a batlike mask 2. a bearded face in agony 3. a crouching black widow, full of venom, woman thing ready to strike 4. a giant with two feet and sheesh K, and Raph, I said it was a tail. 5. a butterfly 6. a cat, Bill the cat, a runned over Bill the cat, y'know the one that says, "Ack." 7. Two ladies dancing, a mirror image on ice. 8. a brain, skull, small animal skull 9. an evil face, something sci-fi 10. Three figures, elflike, dancing around the middle one, who seems important. Ok, now after reading the answers, I have deduced, rather the Rorschach people have that I am: paranoid, I have trouble relating to people, I am bi-sexual, I see my father as a giant and have good relations with my mother, I am a mental defective and have poor social development. A perfect start to this below zero day. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Actually, though, I would like to take the test again with the colors that are described as to what we should actually be seeing. I have an idea that the colored Rorschach blobs would have an entirely different impact on all of our responses. Being given the description in no way helps - I think the impact would have to be based on the actual colored blob of a picture itself. Up to finding some colored blobs, Richard?  |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
I just gave myself about the same amount of time for each and wrote down whatever I thought of. I'd be interested in seeing it colored, though. Apparently I'm a bit sick and psycho. Luckily, this comes as no surprise! 1. A fox’s head’s skin torn off and pasted on paper. A gun on both the top outer corners. 2. An old, sad, sad, man with his hands over his face, crying. 3. A human skull with the arm bones making an incomplete X at the bottom of the page because it cuts off. A bow. Two ducks talking. Masks hanging from the top on both sides. 4. Polar bear hide, like the (fake) one I had when I was a kid that I slept on every night. (Erm, considering what this one is supposed to be for… Let’s pretend I did not just say that.) 5. A very friendly and welcoming, feathery, bat. 6. Aww poor kitty. And it has no tail. And something else I won’t say. 7. Peter Pan on the right and one of the pranksters from peter pan on the left. A cauldron sitting on a fire in the center. 8. Won’t say. And a bear climbing a mountain on either side. 9. Stitch, from lilo and stitch, flattened with his claws in. A crying baby with his hands and feet in the air. 10. A big giant crawdad man, walking upright and staring at me. He’s old and mean. |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Hehe - guess I'll have to skip the patty-cake reference for #2 #1 - wolf or the merging of two continents #2 - japanese kabuki dancers #3 - Mary Jane's bad hair day #4 - Glancing upwards at a naked male giant #5 - Bat woman in a tizzy #6 - flat cat on pavement #7 - tea for two - siamese twins #8 - earth's land masses melting, or anatomy pressed between two glass slides #9 - Killer alien teddy bear #10 - a Mess this was fun  Susan If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . . |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Omg...y'mean the giant was my father, and that third leg? *wince* If I wasn't totally screwed up before, I am now.  |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
I know what you mean.  It just isn't right.... Bleh. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Dontcha just have to laugh at any test that considers genitalia imagery as "naughty" or that if it looks like as monster (if it does) it means you are sick? LOL, the real sickos, as I said before, are the ones who designed this bizarre test, who made the blots into something far beyond...well, ink blots. OCCASIONALLY I saw a penis or vagina shape, but no where near as often as I think they wanted me to. Hmmm, am I....well, just not as imaginative? And this, in spite of seeing 'phallic' purple decorative wine decanters come into the store yesterday. *sigh* mostly, the blots just looked like the spilled ink messes I made while attempting ink art and calligraphy. Blowing (hehe) the whistle (hehe again)on this stupid test is a great idea. |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
Okay this was a little strange but it was interesting. Plate 1 Goat head Plate 2 two ghosts playing patty-cake or the head of a very large distressed obese cat. Plate 3 2 people sitting on sticks by a fire pit. Plate 4 Sasquatch with an extremely large penis. Plate 5 A butterfly Plate 6 2 squished cats Plate 7 2 bunnies on a seesaw Plate 8 Buffalo jumping over stream (sideview) or the head of a large breed puppy Plate 9 Very corpulent chef Plate 10 Crabs, wishbone, cow skull, 2 birds Wonder what it all means.... |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
And you thought no one would come and play, Richard...LOL... |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
1 outline of a goat's head or an animal mask 2 2 people arguing, fighting, spitting at one another an owl's sad face 3 2 chickens dancing insides of a human, skeletal bones, xray crab 4 a monster dragging his tail or? 5 moth or butterfly bat 6 animal skin rug wire haired man wearing oversized clothes 7 birds perched to fly off of a rock 8 a kid making a face or crying 2 bears climbing an evergreen tree 9 gremlin 10 crab or lobster/sea creature |
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