The King and Queen of all quizzes!
What do you get when you merge Japanese psychology, the Rorschach inkblot test, a sprinkle of Jungian psychology, and the Tarot all together? Well … you’ll find out! (But I can guarantee that it’s probably one of the weirdest tests you’ll ever take.)
What is the Subconscious Mind?
Your subconscious mind is like the basement in which all of the material not currently inhabiting your conscious awareness is stored.
Every memory, skill, experience, feeling, thought, and forgotten/subliminal piece of information is housed in your subconscious mind. It is this powerful part of your brain that carries out actions on autopilot, delivers intuitive and instinctual information, and predetermines how you will act in any given situation.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind for most people is a total mystery. Yet science has proven that a large percentage of our feelings, thoughts, and major life decisions are based on the impulses arising from this strange realm.
Your subconscious mind influences everything from the partner you choose, to the jobs you take on, personas you adopt, addictions you develop, and aspirations you have in life. The craziest thing is that we often aren’t even aware of the impact that our subconscious mind has on us.
There is also another darker side to the subconscious mind: it is the place where we often hide or suppress the emotions that we don’t want to face. Mind you, not everything buried in the subconscious mind is negative, but some of it is quite ominous. In this test, there’s the possibility to reveal both positive and negative qualities about yourself.
Subconscious Mind Test
After receiving your answer in this test, please reflect on any reactions you might have. Do you feel shocked, angry or defensive? If so, consider that these reactions might be defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms are like inner walls that immediately go up whenever we touch on an inconvenient (or painful) truth. Also, don’t take the answer you receive as a certainty. See it instead as a possibility. As with any quiz, accuracy can’t be 100% guaranteed (but we’ve tried our best!).
So have fun with this subconscious mind test, and don’t forget to share your results (if you’re so inclined)!
Oh yes:
P.S. Why is the Tarot included in this test? Most people have false assumptions about the tarot. The dominant belief is that the tarot is some kind of hocus-pocus fortune telling gimmick. This is far from the truth. Yes, the tarot can be used by bejeweled “gypsy fortune tellers” to make grandiose predictions. But most genuine tarot readers in this day and age believe that no path is set in stone. We are in charge of our destiny. The Tarot is a powerful psychological tool that reveals your unconscious desires, needs, thoughts, gifts, and aspirations. In short, the Tarot is a powerful tool for exploring your unconscious mind. The deck used in this test is one that I personally use and recommend called The Smith-Waite Tarot Centennial Edition Deck.
We’ve also created questions inspired from the book ‘Kokology’ created by University professors Isamu Saito and Tadahiko Nagao.
On to the test!
What did you get?
Share your result in the comments below!
Isolation- I spent a long period of time isolating myself; “mourning” over something I lost tried to reclaim, but couldn’t, and now I regret it.
Do we have also a Super-Conscious Mind? Some teachings say this is a Divine Spark within us, our God within. Many people confused about the difference between Spirit and Soul and interactions between our reasoning mind (consciousness), the subconscious and the super-conscious. Some say subconscious is our soul and super-conscious is the Spirit. What is your take on it?
So very true! Loneliness is my innate characteristic since attaining adolescence.
This says “Deep down you are a gentle soul who craves love. You have a deep subconscious need to receive love and give love to others.” So far, all true, except it is a very conscious need to love and be loved, but my experience (I’m 68) has been that every time I open myself up to loving someone they bleed me for all the money and energy and money (yes, I repeat money intentionally) they can get out of me and give little or nothing back, until I am empty and exhausted. I have spent much of my life and hundreds of thousands of dollars taking care of people who didn’t give a shytt about me except what they could get out of me. I have learned to protect myself, I had to, but that also means I have become wary of everyone, I don’t like that, but I also have to protect myself.
I’ve got fear.. And again it’s spot on. It learns me that the illness I am diagnosed with is not the reason I’m feeling what I feel. I start to doubt everything now.
Sadness. Heh. It fits. All of the accompanying description fits as well.
Except the bits about healing. The cycles within the cycles nested as deep as my mind can follow all come back here, to this broken and empty place. Healing is an illusion caused by fleeting distractions. Seems like all the psychology and psychiatry texts talk about getting back to a “pre-morbid condition” when they talk about healing from the various illnesses. I don’t have a “pre-morbid condition”; I’ve been this way as far back as I can recall.
Anyway … good test.
Hope. Who knew?
Wow! I took this test several times and Fear always came out. I didn’t know what my fear was until I kept working on my shadow self (by the way, thank you so much for writing that book!).
Now I got Desire.
It makes perfect sense with what I’m feeling and going through right now.
Traumas from my teenage past and a person responsible for those are in my life after decades. I have become cold, depressed and have completely lost my desire for sex or anything else I enjoy.
I’ve been working hard on growing spiritually and also am now an adult but he is bringing up those past painful insecure feelings that I had come to terms with and matured.
I no longer had those insecurities and had become a free spirit. I enjoyed trying new things in all areas of life and had self-esteem and self worth.
I know it’s time to remove him from my life.
I got contempt! Start judging others so harshly,because you judge yourself that way!
The test is pretty accurate for me :) And yes Tarot is a really ancient tool that can teach the deepest mysteries of the universe and yourself if you’re willing to embark on a journey with it. Tarot with I Ching were important tools for Carl Jung and his work on the unconscious, also for Joseph Campbell. I just discovered your website and I’m so grateful for it, you’re doing an amazing job, I totally resonate with it this is all really helpful. Thank you so much, take care!
I got love. Although my childhood was extreme abuse from the time i was adopted @ age 7, my memories have been terribly sad. I think this made me mindful & compassionate towards those who suffer, whether homeless, sad, alone i can spot it & want to help. Great test. Take it & c where it leads u.
This test is just awesome… It was so true that even I was shocked..Its a must try for everyone.
I got Hope!
Once I started reading this I had tears running down my cheeks.
Sadness, “Something in your life is unresolved. And it is eating away at you…You subconsciously feel like a part of you has gone missing-.” I’m not sure if this is amazing because of it’s accuracy; or depressing since it seems more astute than my last therapist.
Grief & loss are probably the most difficult, emotionally charged experiences to process that I’ve discovered in life. Whether it’s love ones passing, a career ending, or a significant relationship dissolving it seems those 5 stages aren’t in order & you always wish to go back to change a moment, a conversation, or even the goodbye.
But even with those you reach a point of resolution. However, a loss of self truly leaves you feeling like something inside is missing & it’s your very identity.
After an extremely toxic marriage, I’ve spent 5 years on a journey to re-discover what was taken. Only in the last year have I realized that is a loss that must be grieved too. I’ll never be who I was prior to those 11 years, & it’s the loss of all the promised future potentials of that individual which leaves something inside always missing.
But when the journey is complete, maybe the next quiz will be happiness. Because in the end I’ll have the identity of whomever I become, even if it wasn’t who I would’ve been.
I got Love, which was very comforting to me. It feels right. As my narcissistic parents practically destroyed me in the critical development years of ages 0-7, it’s a miracle that I remained this way.
How apt! I lost my father , uncle and grandfather all in Span of last month.
Then to top it a huge fight with my partner in middle of this lockdown. I stopped meditation after this point as it only made me very sad. Yes
Now with the lockdown in place am beginning to question everything and cant decide what I want to accomplish or achieve. Am a Blank slate!
life has lost its spark and playfulness. Mostly everything will feel grey and dull. Excitement and anticipation for the future will disappear. Boredom, apathy.
I got gentle, empathic, considerate and cares for others but a deep seated fear of something.
Well, as I have grown as an Empath I have been able to eradicate many symptoms generated by this deep seated fear. (I must add that your articles on Shadow Work has helped tremendously!)
It’s got to do with Dark Energy. I feel dark energy very very quickly. It’s like I a meant to fight against it, warn others and protect them.
This has been a theme my entire life from when I was very little. Add an ability to Astral Travel, Astral Protect – even in a conscious state – and the trauma of being severely burnt at 2 years….well what a recipe!
I certainly was never meant to have a boring life that is for sure!
I am shocked. Somehow what this says has meaning. Now I just need to figure out what to do about it.
I got Love and honestly, tears came to my eyes because it’s so spot on. I crave love and sometimes it feels like it’s this unattainable thing, far out of my reach. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll be alone forever. :(
Deep down, you are a kind and gentle soul who craves love. You have a strong subconscious need to give love to others and receive love. Although you may sometimes appear strong, stoic or self-sufficient on the outside, that is only hiding your deeply compassionate heart and desire to unite others.
Not everything buried in the subconscious is dark or negative. Love is an example of a positive force that is too often suppressed because of how overwhelming and overpowering (and therefore intimidating) it can be. So ask yourself, in what ways are you withholding love or avoiding receiving it from others? And most importantly, why?
Here is another question: what insecurities or mistaken beliefs are causing you to repress the energy of love?
Your soul is a force of nature that longs to spread love. Find ways of generating more self-compassion in your life, and you will find yourself feeling more and more at peace.
I got Isolation, and it is spot on really. I am on a very intentional journey to learn who I am and how to love myself deeply. The more I walk this path the more I find I am truly the answers I am looking for AND the more I connect with the Divine. This Isolation, the things you describe… they have been at the root of so many of the sufferings in my life. I am grateful to be sharing this journey with you and look forward to more reading and tests :)
I had trouble on one of the questions, the ones about dreams. I don’t dream about my parents. I can’t recall a dream about them ever really… I just selected “abandoned me” because maybe that’s what them being absent form my dreams is closest to.
I received the same answer isolation, I’ve also been on a similar journey with an amazing amount of ups and downs. At the moment of a painful awakening journey I was one with the Devine or do it seemed . But somehow drifted away or moreso lost something in me since the Devine is obviously very present in my life. By any chance would you have any advice or something to share on how you’ve connected with or grew closer to it?