Read the following questions, imagining the scenes in your mind, and write down the FIRST thing that you visualize. Do not think about the questions excessively. Write down what pops into your mind in the first instance. Remember, your minds imagination is completely free……
1. You are walking in the woods. You are walking with someone. Who are you walking with?
2. Around the corner behind a tree you hear rustling. You see an animal of sorts. What kind of animal is it?
3. Some or No interaction takes place between you and this animal. Describe what takes place?
4. You walk deeper into the woods....You enter a clearing and before you is your dream house. Describe it briefly.
5. Is this house surrounded by a fence or a wall, or is there none?
6. You enter the house. You walk to the dining room area and you see your dining room table. Describe what you see on and around the table.
7. You exit the house through the back door. Lying in the grass is a cup of sorts. Describe what it looks like, and what its made of.
8. After looking at the cup, what do you do with the cup if anything ?
9. You walk to the edge of the property, where there is a clearing. You come across water. What type of a body of water is it (a reservoir, creek, river, ocean, waterfall, pond, bog, storm-runoff…..remember to follow your first thoughts )
10. Presuming you have reached a large body of water that you need to get across, lets say a river, how do you do this?
This has been a relational psychology test. I hope you've actually done this test, because if you read the analysis below you lose the opportunity to learn and gain valuable insights about yourself. Take a moment, right now, to spend a few minutes using your imagination, to answer the above questions. Done? Now see what those thoughts mean.
The answers given to the questions have been shown to have a relevance to values and ideals that we hold in our personal lives. The analysis follows.
1. The person who you are walking with is the most important person in your life at this specific time.
2. The size of the animal is representative of your 'perception' of the size of your problems.
3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems (passive, aggressive, not at all etc).
4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to resolve your problems.
5. No fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence is more indicative of a closed personality, a private person.
6. If your answer did not include food, people, or flowers then your are generally unhappy.
7. The durability of the material with which the cup is made is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship with the person from number 1. For example, styrofoam, plastic, and paper are disposable; Styrofoam and paper, are not durable; glass, ceramics and crystal are fragile; and metal, wood, rock, plastic are permanent.
8. Your disposition of the cup is representative of your attitude toward the person in number 1.
9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire, or sex drive.
10. How wet you get in crossing the water is indicative of the relative importance of your sex life.
NVDL: Tomorrow I will share some of the insights I've learned about myself, which in some cases fascinated, and in others, disturbed me.
