- Hello, lovely people!
- Hi!
(laughing)
Sorry, there was a bit of a delay.
- I think it was cute.
Thank you for joining us today as we crack open our brains
and take a look inside at the creative goop.
- That might not be the best tagline.
(laughing)
- Maybe not.
If you're new here, hello I'm Jessica, this is my channel,
this is my beautiful wife, Claudia.
She's a special guest star in some of my videos
and takes all the beautiful photos on our Instagram account,
although you can also follow her
on her own Instagram account @CloudFoz,
where she posts annually.
- I'm too busy making all the content
for the other Instagram accounts.
- Yeah.
We love being creative and learning more about ourselves
so we have partnered with Skillshare,
who have kindly sponsored this video, to bare our souls
through the magic of a Rorschach Test.
- How exciting.
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- Getting to know yourself better
and having creative breakthroughs is important
because it helps you stay on the right track in life.
Are we really doing what makes us happy?
- Are we?
I think I'm personally quite obsessed with personality tests
because I just have a complete lack of self awareness
but really want to have one.
So what, you may ask, is a Rorschach Test?
Other than being yet another entry in the list of names
I possibly can't pronounce.
A deep apology to everyone in the Kellgren-Fozard club
whose name I have butchered
in my monthly members only videos,
I say happy birthday to everyone in the club
who's had a birthday that month
by butchering 80% of their names and I'm so sorry!
- You are dyslexic.
- Thank you and deaf.
The Rorschach Test is a psychological test
developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach
to measure thought pattern and disorders.
Test participants were shown a series of 10 ink blot cards
and directed to respond to each
with what they see in the ink blot.
More rigorous modern analysis indicates
that the scores have little value
and it's actually pretty useless.
The Rorschach Test is now just a historical curiosity
and used mainly for entertainment purposes.
There are 10 images and we have some time to memorize them
and then we get shown a list of what the ink blots might be
and we have to pick our first and second choice.
- Oh, okay.
I thought it was like, you just see an ink blot
and then you could just choose whatever you think it is.
- Yeah but this is a computer program,
so I'm afraid you have to pick
from the preconceived notions.
- We don't have time to go into
the actual depths of Claudia's mind.
- I'm so sorry, I didn't hire
an actual psychiatrist for this.
Ho hum, begin assessment.
What is this?
Ooh, is it an Army or Navy emblem, crumbling cliffs,
a bat, nothing at all, two people, a pelvis,
an X-ray picture, pincers of a crab, a dirty mess,
part of my body, something not listed here.
- [Claudia] Choose what would best describe
the image you saw in the first column.
If there's a second description that fits well too,
mark it in the second, oh okay.
- Oh a pelvis.
Continue, next one.
A bug someone stepped on, nothing at all,
two Scottie dogs, little, wait,
you just went straight for two clowns.
- Two clowns high fiving.
- Sure, anything else?
- No I couldn't see anything else
but two clowns high fiving.
- [Jessica] What does this one look like to you?
- [Claudia] It looks like people playing the drums.
- Okay, click continue.
It gives you the answer of "part of my body" a lot.
- All right, ooh.
It's a ram's head, a ram's skull or actually a water hog.
- Ah!
- Yeah it looks a bit like the one from The Lion King.
- Yeah, okay.
Somebody, a man in a fur coat.
- I love it, a nasty mess.
(laughing)
- Not just a mess, a nasty mess.
Oh that's obvious...
- [Claudia] What do you think it is?
- [Jessica] Is that not just a mo... bat?
- Were you gonna say a moth?
I know but it's not quite the...
- It's the wrong shape for a moth so then I said a bat.
Alligator's head?
- A bat or butterfly.
- It just gives you "an X-ray picture" over and over.
- A pair of pliers?
- Ooh.
- I think it looks a bit like
a animal skin mat.
You know when people make like, skins out of?
- I really have no idea
what animal that used to be, my love but...
- See, look, a fur rug.
Yes, that's what I was going for.
- Go for it, go for it.
- [Claudia] Looks like two girls looking at each other,
doing some crazy little dance.
- Oh.
Yes, go for it.
- Two women talking, yeah.
- All right.
Seriously "part of my body" appears every single time.
A colorful one!
Ah.
I mean...
- [Claudia] It did look a bit like a...
- [Jessica] I think it looks like two bears climbing
up a mountainside.
- You think bears, I was gonna say iguanas.
- Well now you've said that, it's clearly an iguana.
- [Claudia] Two animals, anyway.
- Oh what does it look like, "pink, blue and orange."
Thanks, wasn't aware that was an option.
- I'll say two animals but also flowers and leaves
because it looked a bit like nature-y to me.
- Okay or was it parts of my body?
- No.
Ooh, it's scary.
It's a skull, look there's the nostrils, the eyes,
its horns and it's flaming like...
(impersonation of flames)
- [Jessica] Oh it looks like a dragon!
- [Claudia] Yeah or a bull.
- Seahorses or lobsters, no.
Flowers or underwater vegetation, parts of my body!
- Yeah second is smoke 'cause I could get the flames bit
but the first bit was like--
- It's quite clearly a dragon.
- Yeah or it was like, they said deer or horns of a deer.
- I guess you have to go with that.
- Or it's seahorses or lobsters.
I think I'll go for the deer.
- [Jessica] Two people, witches or Santa Clauses?
- Whoa we're getting really quite out there now.
- Oh yeah, this has got trippy.
(exhaling)
Splodges of paint?
I mean, it could be an underwater scene?
- Yeah I think an underwater scene, they look like crabs.
- It's reminding me of a mermaid and an enjoyable--
- Shrimp, they look like shrimp and they look like crabs,
seahorses, yeah, seaweed.
- [Jessica] Oh, okay.
- [Claudia] It's a gay tropical fish.
(laughing)
- Yeah gay tropical fish, got it, got it in one.
- I was gonna go for, it wasn't, they said
spider, caterpillar, crabs and insects.
I thought it was more like, sea creatures.
- Yeah it was fun.
- Okay, what does it say about me?
- Okay, your score is one of 10.
Is that good?
- One of 10, not one out of 10.
- Okay, meaning you selected one answer
that is commonly given by individuals
with some psychological disturbance.
Congratulations!
- So I'm okay.
- Wow you need four or more poor answers as the criteria
for a cognitively disturbed individual.
- Wow, okay.
- Well, sure.
- If you said it's a part of my body for every single thing,
is that a disturbed answer?
- Maybe that's the answer.
Maybe because you put pelvis for one of them,
it was like, "part of my body."
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- I'm feeling very defensive.
- Wow, yeah!
I mean, you're the one who's taking this all on yourself.
- You already, you opened this whole video with
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- I've always said to Jessica that I think
my 40s are gonna be amazing.
- Yes they will.
- I just feel like I've not quite, you know.
I mean, I'm just saying I've got eight years of my 30s
to get more knowledge, get more creativeness,
to get more confident, basically what I'm trying to say is
it's never too late to learn.
- It's never too late.
- Yeah and I used to be one of those people that was like,
"oh I don't know myself and I don't have enough direction
"and I wish I had a hobby that I just really adored,"
and now I'm like, you know what?
It will come.
- Yes.
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Back to finding out things we never knew about each other.
- I mean it didn't tell us much for mine,
it just told me well done,
you're not psychologically disturbed.
- Yeah.
- I mean, what's yours gonna reveal?
That you are?
What are we gonna do then?
- Begin assessment.
Oh I think they're the same blots.
This immediately says to me wolf.
- Oh I'm seeing something different this time.
(laughing)
Is is the same?
You sure?
- Yeah, right?
- I don't know, I'm seeing something different.
Okay I've seen a wolf.
- [Claudia] Yeah, still two clowns.
- [Jessica] Oh that's like two men touching hands.
- Yeah two clowns, the spottiness and baggy clothes.
- Sure, where's the clown one?
Two clowns, yeah let's go!
Okay that's, I'm thinking they look like French waiters
because bear with, in this little space here
you can almost see--
- [Claudia] Ah, little aprons!
- [Jessica] There's like an apron.
- [Claudia] In the negative space.
- Mm, mm!
And this is a massive kind of soup terrine.
- Yes and there's a bow tie between them.
- Yeah.
- Two men, that's the only option.
I know, we give it such a lot of detail
and they're like two men.
- We thought about this a lot!
- A scary warthog.
- Again, I mean, yeah I guess warthog
is really the only thing that could be.
I mean it has the little ears here
and then I'm seeing the horns.
- [Claudia] And the eyes.
- And a shnout.
I don't know why I said it like that.
- A shnout.
- It's 'cause we're doing a German test.
Is it German?
Ruj, Reich, Reichman?
- Why do we just accidentally insult people?
Head of an animal.
- Yep.
- Right?
I'm intrigued as to what the answers could be
that make you,
that would've made them originally think
that you had some kind of problem.
Okay, I'm gonna say it's just a bat.
- [Claudia] A smashed body, see!
- [Jessica] This looks like a guitar to me.
- Or is it a weapon?
(laughing)
Let's see what the options are.
- Yeah, okay.
I'm gonna go with something not listed here
and be true to myself.
I mean...
I think this looks like rocks, to be honest.
- Could look a bit like a bum print,
you know when your bum is wet?
- A bum print?
- Yeah and you've just sat on a--
- What kind of a weird shaped bum do you have?
- Bum and thighs, like a baby's bum and thighs like.
(mouth popping)
Something not listed here.
Part of my body!
(laughing)
It's part of my body.
- [Jessica] All right, part of my body, sure.
- [Claudia] Part of my body when I was really young.
- [Jessica] Again, I thought this was a bear climbing up
a really odd tree.
- I mean it looks a little bit like, Star Wars-y.
I think it's the things here, I keep thinking of Xena.
Not Xena, Zelda.
- Leia?
- Leia.
(laughing)
- Is it an X-ray picture?
No, why would it be an X-ray picture?
Pink, blue and orange.
This is a dragon.
- [Claudia] I know but it wasn't like--
- [Jessica] And it wasn't an option,
even though there's his nose, we've got...
- Oh and it could be a dragon this way as well, like see?
Two dragons.
- Yeah there's so many ways it could be a dragon.
- Yeah.
- I guess it could be a bit seahorse-y.
Was that an option?
Where's that?
- [Claudia] No.
- [Jessica] Seahorses!
- Oh right, yeah it was.
- [Jessica] This, we thought, was the underwater scene.
- [Claudia] Or is it a tropical gay fish?
Apparently.
(laughing)
- I don't know what a gay fish looks like!
I'll go with spider, caterpillars and insects and stuff.
Your test is complete!
- Your score is three of 10, you're borderline!
(shocked exclamation)
- How?
You selected three answers that are commonly given
by individuals with some psychological disturbance!
- Interesting.
- Four or more poor answers is the criteria
for a cognitively disturbed individual.
- Look, if you look at the chart, yeah?
Most people scored two.
I only got one, you're on the other side of the curve.
- Oh, God.
- I'm not surprised, you are
a little bit psychologically disturbed.
Compared to me.
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- The plunge!
- And also, the test that I'm gonna leave
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Please tell me if you score more than three, I'm intrigued
or recognize it's a nonsense test
that means nothing about yourself.
You're fine, unless you feel like you should
speak to a doctor, in which case, speak to a doctor.
There's really no good way to end that.
- No.
Bye!
- Bye bye, thank you so much.
We'll see you in our next video.
Goodbye.
- Goodbye!
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