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RORSCHACH

The inkblot test was developed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921. Patients were shown ambiguous symmetric images and asked what they saw.

The images themselves contain nothing — they are accidents of ink folded on paper. Meaning exists only in the mind of the viewer.

"We see things not as they are, but as we are."
— attributed to Anaïs Nin

What do you see in these shapes? A butterfly? Two figures? Something from a dream you've forgotten?

The question is not what the inkblot is. The question is what you bring to it.