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!
My heart skipped a beat when I saw my result, which is isolation, something I’ve been struggling with since I was a kid. I moved schools during 5th grade (it was in a bad area),and suffered horrible bullying everyday and it was so bad that my parents decided to homeschool me after that school year was over. My life was even threatened when I was there, but I never told anybody about that, or just how bad it actually was. After I was homeschooled, my parents tried to get me to join different clubs the homeschool offered like soccer, a painting class, or piano, but I refused. I didn’t know at the time but I developed social anxiety and PTSD from what I went through, and it changed my life for the worst. I sort of became a recluse, not leaving the house for weeks at a time, pretending to be sick so I didn’t have to walk our dog or clean my room.
With the exception of my parents and internet friends, I was alone. It felt like my fault, that there was something wrong with me because my circumstance was far from normal. Today, I’m in my 20’s and I’m on medication for my anxiety and depression, and I can say I have no problem leaving the house now, but I still have no friends and want that more than anything. I can’t believe how accurate this quiz was. I’ll be taking the advice given on soul-work. Thank you for this (kinda scary) accurate quiz!
Ashley, I so resonate with what you’ve written here. I have felt isolated for most of my life as well – and social anxiety came to define most of my early twenties. I would have panic attacks all the time, have no friends, stay inside all the time, no social connections, and no one to share with. I just want you to know that it gets better (yes, that might seem cliche, but it’s true). Like you, I still feel a haunting sense of loneliness (even with an amazing partner) and wish to have a family someday … but that day seems far away. I’m glad this test hit the nail on the head for you. Much love
The test is pretty acurate in my case :) the answer was isolation, haha deep inside I knew it :) thank you for your work! :)
In case no one sees my comment, I got Desire. I want to comment on how that’s possible. This paragraph really resonated with me.
You are a person who either tends to over-indulge or under-indulge – there are no grey areas. You tend to jump to extremes and either binge … or become austere and highly self-controlled.As such, you are prone to various forms of addiction and sexual impotency or overactivity.
I was never the type who took addictions to the next level. Religion was definitely a factor. In my childhood, we were raised in the church as Christians. I was raised with the belief that having sex before marriage was bad for obvious reasons, i.e., you’ll sin against God, burn in hell, whatever. I almost wanted to break that rule, but I didn’t love the person. I treat sex as a sacred act.
Do you tend to gouge yourself on food, shopping, television, sex, and other life pleasures? Or perhaps you are the opposite: restrained, frugal, placid, controlled, and self-possessed? Both of these extremes require you to consciously work with the energy of desire to discover what is underneath.
Surprisingly, I was reading Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming.” She mentioned at times how she asked herself if she was good enough to succeed. I felt that connection with her so much. Anyway, that’s as much as I got out of this result. I’ll keep researching what it truly means to desire something.
Hello, Luna. Thank you for this quiz. I discovered it in my email and decided to take it. The result was pretty surprising to me. It said I got Desire. It sounds a little silly to say, or write in this case, but the word “desire” has six letters. That’s the same amount of my first name. I never thought my name could be synonymous with that.
You have to become what you SEEK in order to get what you want.
(Typo, SEEK, not Seem)
I got Hope, and it was remarkably accurate about me Not letting of Past people that I outgrew long ago.
Being around people who “Can’t think for themselves, stagnant on multiple levels including outdated views, beliefs is equivalent to carrying around a bag of rocks.
Just pray for them and keep on moving forward.
Thank you Luna and Sol for helping me See that it’s better to be a loner wolf than to waste time trying to explain what’s Right for me because I not only have Hope I have Faith and I Believe in myself because I know who I am. It Doesn’t matter where you are in your life, your age, the first step is to be what you seem and when you do that everything will come together. Don’t worry or focus on “what happened” focus on where you’re going and DON’T concern yourself with past people or mistakes.
It was a Lesson you Needed to Learn and you will make many more mistakes which is how you grow, apologize if necessary; stop wasting time trying to explain yourself to people who want to Hold you BACK or others Don’t Know what’s Right for you.
This is a wonderful site. I have shot out links to the few people I socialize with who appreciate the stuff on here. :) I’ve been a longtime lurker and I finally feel the urge to type a response to a test result.
Isolation was my result. I don’t deny it. I feel isolated everywhere I go. The older I get, the more disconnected I become. It’s gotten to the point where it feels like my spirit guide has given up on me. I sometimes feel like a madman searching for answers inside of a pitch black and soundproof cavern. Friendships often feel superficial and I cling to the old ones from my childhood. Even those are becoming jilted due to friends’ poor choices in life. Choices I cannot and will not enable or encourage.
How am I supposed to start the process of feeling connected when people, no matter where I move to, reject me on the basis of not being from around here? They come up with their own conclusions about me, act friendly to my face, and talk smack behind my back, and all this without ever bothering to get to know me. I’ve been shunned by groups of people I once played sports with, have participated in activities with, and even the majority of my own family believes me to be some kind of alien. I’ve been disavowed by the majority of my Dad’s side for simply being me and holding on to my core beliefs. My Mom’s side tries to keep their distance from me. The only socialize with me when they feel the have to. I only speak to 4 people on that side, including my Mother. Those who do have associations with me have also been shunned. I’m not going to bother changing the negative disposition I have with people since I believe it to be a waste of my time and what little energy I have. What people see is what they get.
With all of this said, I am far from having lived a life that many would consider saintly. I have done many terrible things out of circumstance. It was either do what I was tasked with or face severe consequences for refusing. Thankfully those days are behind me, but it always seems like both sides of the family like to cling to the way I was during my childhood as a means to forever shame and shun me. As a result, I don’t feel loved whatsoever, and if I were to find a woman who uses that word to describe how she feels about me, I am not sure how I would respond. Seems to me, love is what people use when they want something and are looking to backstab their target. I would feel more compelled to hunker down, emotionally, and put up numerous walls to prepare myself for the incoming emotional blow I am about to sustain.
My result was titled “desire” which is interesting but I don’t know what to do to manage the negative aspects of the diagnosis!
I got “isolation” and I had to admit that it was so accurate it hurts. I almost cried. I’ve been following your blog since the first time I found it and I can’t thank you enough for all these guidances and surprisingly revealing quizzes that help me going through my current existential crisis. I will try the reccommendations I got here and I hope I can eventually reach the level of spirituality I need and fulfill my holy-longing, for my pursuit in life is nothing than a sense of being whole and in peace.
I’m so glad it helped and was accurate for you, Zia. <3
Lots of love
“Love” and yes, it fits. Very cool, and thank you for the advice.