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 Love and it is so incredibly correct.
I got sadness. I’ve read many comments and it seems to me that not so many people got that result, most of you got love. Yes, i am sad. I lost my love because of my selfishness. I miss him every day, every second. I don’t know if the result would be different haven’t i gone through a tough break up. How can i change this? I don’t want to be sad. All my life i am sad about things and it’s hard. I want to be happy again and take control over my life.
Love, strangely enough
Isolation- a unique, gifted, and independent minded person. Oh wow, SO me!!! That is so amazing…It’s all right! I love every form of art – painting, drawing, cooking, baking, crochet, crafting soaps and scrubs, sewing etc, etc. I’m also a giver but always seem to give too much to the wrong people which causes a lot of hurt and frustration. In turn, I end up isolating and seething because I cannot bring myself to tell people when they have hurt me or made me angry because they take advantage of my kindness. I have so much work to do. Won’t even go into my childhood, but believe it or not I have come a long, long way from who I used to be.
I Got Anger !!! AND I”M PISSED lol, j/k Think I’m justified being angry. I’ve been dumped by all my friends and family for the crime of having no coins in my pocket and no driveway to park my ??? aSS. LOL My Mom’s quote ” Given where you are at in your life at this point in time, I feel I have done what I can. It appears you will do no more. I have therefore blocked your emails.” curious in that I don’t owe her money, have not been indebted to her all my life nor stole a thing from her or anyone. Have no criminal record and have done my “work” as far as mental health goes. I wasn’t even asking her for anything that ins’t mine. But, I was pestering her with questions in the end, that she doesn’t have answers to or is unwilling to answer. I suggested mediation and got the guillotine. A Class/Caste System does exist in some families/communities based on material possessions or community standing. Slip below a certain level, and there is no hope for you in many peoples minds. I mean she has a spare room that gets cleaned weekly,… Read more »
Hope ;p
I got Courage and I’m having a hard time understanding what that result means. What does it mean to have courage in my subconscious? Is this a negative or positive? I can relate to the breakdown of the result but I’m having a hard time understanding the take away. Thanks
I got Desire
I got sadness, which, I guess, makes sense, seeing as I was kind of sad when I took the test, and I often find myself falling into a pit of emotional despair.
I hope, to any others who got sadness too, that you find relief from your grief and joy in the things you do. Why? Because you’re awesome! :)
As for myself…
Grief? The only grief I went through was when I was 1-2 years old (meaning, it shouldn’t count), losing my only caring non-immidiate relative (grandfather) and my younger sister. I guess a part of my mother too. I should have gotten over this, especially seeing how long it has been and how often I used to cry.
I guess I’m not exactly ecstatic about what I’m doing right now either.
Isolation! and this couldn’t be more true and timely as I have enrolled myself for a 10-days meditation retreat commencing this Wednesday, the 25th September. This is because the emptiness and loneliness that was haunting me are too much to bear right after being “initiated” by fateful meeting with a complete stranger that completely broken down everything that I used to hold true and dear. My whole life (or how wrong it was) was being brought to light within a short time of 2 hours’ with this ‘guide’ and I now only yearn to learn and explore the wonders of reclaiming/reintegrating my Self with Soul and the Divine. And a huge THANK YOU goes to both you lovely souls to ease my research and exploration with all your writings. I must say that I’ll still be a lost soul if I have not come across your website and learnt soooo much about my own self here.