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 can be compared to an inner basement in which all of the material not currently inhabiting your conscious awareness is stored.
Every memory, skill, experience, feeling, thought, and forgotten or 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.
Your subconscious mind is also where unresolved or suppressed feelings, desires, and ideas dwell, and is therefore where your shadow (or the rejected parts of yourself) can lurk. For this reason, shadow work is one of the most powerful ways of exploring your subconscious mind and freeing it of any weight it may be carrying.
You can see our popular and highly rated Shadow Work Journal for a deep guided way to explore this hidden part of you.
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 often we aren’t even aware of the impact that our subconscious mind has on us.
As I pointed out above, 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 – there can be brilliantly creative and joyful elements within it as well – but some of what the subconscious contains can feel quite strange or confronting.
In this test, you’re presented with the possibility to learn either positive or negative qualities about yourself, and receiving either is neither right nor wrong, it just is.
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. Again, you can check out our Shadow Work Journal or even our Shadow & Light membership for more ongoing guidance.
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 modern 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 results below!
I got ‘fear’ which is dead on in so many ways.. fear of failure, making the wrong decision…fear of getting hurt again but at the same time fear that I’ll never be loved again…
Hope never dies.
Love… as isolated as I feel at times, the results are surprising.
Isolation
Mine is love. Yet it seems so elusive.
Fear
Love ☺
And there I was trying to be a hermit and keep the world at arms length with sarcasm and solitude.
Who would have thought it.
Hope…
Sonetimes giving up on hope could be a positive thing.. like moving away from toxic people.. maybe i should start focus on my own life.. thanks y’all
Mine is love. I really love to receive and express love.. It’s kind of a deep core belief for me. It’s true, I repress it sometimes due to insecurities and labelled being being soft or weak
My answer was hope. And I always hope… for something to get better, for an answer, for my life to have a purpose. I never know how to interpret the present, just that the past is not what it was supposed to be. It is difficult to look forward to tomorrow.
Hope.
For someone who considers herself a realist, I’ve spent most of my life in the dreamland of hoping…hoping for someone to change, hoping for my job to get better (although that did happen after decades of hoping), hoping to someday be in love with a person instead of being in love with the idea of being in love, hoping for everyone to just get along, hoping for my narcisstic ex BF to change back to the person he pretended be in the beginning of our relationship before I realized he was pretending. I always viewed “hope” as a good thing but it really isn’t. I mean, we call it “hope”, but is that really what we’re talking about here. Is it hope because that’s what we’re labeling it or is it really just “fear of change”? Fear with a big fat shiny smiley face painted on it to hide what it really is underneath. It either keeps you as a prisoner of the past or makes you a worrier about the future. I don’t hope much anymore. I no longer hope for people to change – I change instead. I can only control my own thoughts and actions and no one and nothing else in life. Now that I think of it, I guess I can still hope because hoping for a better world motivates me to be a better mom, a better daughter, a better friend, a better co-worker, just a better human. Be the change you wish to see in this world, right?
I love this website! :)