A Fascinating Game

[carsonshepherd]

This is a fascinating game a lovely lady shared with me. It's really interesting to interpret your responses and those of your friends.
There are no wrong answers, only what you can imagine.

Picture yourself walking down a path in a forest. Trees are all around and it's very peaceful. You look down and see a key.

Describe the key in detail. What do you do with it?

Continue walking down the path until you come upon a dwelling. It can be any kind of dwelling or structure made by man.

Describe it in detail. Who does it belong to? Do you go inside? What does it look like inside? What kind of feeling do you get?

Continue down the path till you come upon some kind of water. It can be any sort of body of water.

Describe it in detail, and what kind of feelings you get from it.

Continue down the path until you come upon a barrier of some sort. It can be any kind of fence, wall or anything; any size, shape, height, whatever.

Describe it in detail. What do you do? Do you somehow get by it? How do you get by it? What do you do when you get on the other side, if you do?

The Key: you education and your attitude toward it.
The Dwelling: Your family life and what importance you place on it.
The Water: Your attitude toward sex.
The Barrier: the difficulties you face in life and how you surmount them.

Give it a try... very interesting glimpse into your own psyche. (thanks S)

 

[BlackShanglan]

Goodness, what a clever, clever game.

Mine, when I first tried this years ago, were:

1) An enormous gold key with ornate jewelled wards.
2) A cottage rather like Grimm brothers - sort of a little fairy home where magical people might live. Good feeling, but don't choose to go in.
3) Fresh, sparkling, running creek.
4) It's a big stone wall, overgrown with vines and flowers. I go to the door that will obviously be there, open it with my key, and go through.

Shanglan

 

[Sabledrake]

I loved it when "Knights of the Dinner Table" did this personality test. Too funny!

Sabledrake

 

[DirtyJJ]

What an interesting game.
1) Key - a very large key, like an old-fashioned brass skeleton key, but much larger than normal. I take it and put it in my pocket.
2) Dwelling - a quaint English cottage with a thatched roof, belongs to me. It looks warm and inviting - so I go in. It's cozy and homey inside.
3) A very large lake. Makes me feel peaceful, cool, refreshed, open.
4) An old stone wall - but quite low, maybe 3 feel tall. It's standing between me and the lake, but it is so low that I can easily climb over it.
JJ

 

[carsonshepherd]

In the people I've played this game with I find it interesting that some people go OVER the wall or fence and other people go THROUGH it - wonder if that's avoiding conflict or facing it?

One lovely lady I know didn't trust the strange key and left it lying in the path!

 

[TheEarl]

The key is gold and ornate. It looks as though it belongs to an expensive music box. The shaft is long, with very small wards at hte end and there is a red ribbon attached to the top. I pick it up and hold onto it.

The dwelling is a cottage, made of stone. It's in a grove of trees and looks like something out of a fairy-tale. There is one chimney, but no smoke is coming from it. I don't know who it belongs to and so I don't go inside. It's a nice house, but it doesn't belong to anyone I know, so I admire the twee picture-perfectness of it and move on.

It's a lake. It's pretty and I spend a few minutes sitting and watching the water, but it's too still for my liking, so I move on.

It's a wooden fence with a stile. I lean on it for a minute, watching the view. There are fields beyond the fence and the landscape has me captivated for a minute, but then I hop over the stile and continue down into the fields.

 

[TheEarl]

I don't get what my answers mean about anything. I'm confused and far too literal I think.

The Earl

 

[OhMissScarlett]

1. A small scary looking skeleton key and it was me who left it laying on the ground because I thought it might cause me problems later on.

2.The dwelling I saw was a creepy ancient ruin, filled with skeletons of aliens and cobwebs. I got the fuck out of there.

3. A rushing little stream, surrounded by steep banks on both sides. It seemed to be quit deep, but very narrow.

4. The wall was a bunch of logs stacked, covered in dried leaves and barbed wire. I just climbed right over cause I didn't want to go back to that scary ancient ruin of a dwelling.

Imagine my surprise when I found out this sinister ruin represented my feelings toward family! I love my family, but this really rang true in the respect that sometimes I have to suck it up and deal with their drama when I really would rather run screaming away.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Earl - Obviously it's easier to interpret if you know the person, but here's a try at it. Lemme know if I'm close...

Education is important to you and something very desirable because the key is large, ornate and has a red ribbon on it. You kept it, so maybe you use your education a great deal.

Your house was pretty and peaceful so maybe your home life was (or is) calm and idyllic; but you don't feel a great connection to it, because you didn't go in and you walked on.

The water is too still for you. It's nice but it kind of bores you? Maybe you're searching for excitement in your sex life because you move on?

The view over the fence captivates you so you have a clear vision of what lies ahead and it interests you a lot. You have no trouble overcoming the obstacle but use it just as a point to stop and reflect before just surmounting it and moving on.

I find the obstacle the strongest thing here... you have a connection to what lies ahead more than what lies int he past. Are you an optimist?

 

[carsonshepherd]

My dwelling was an empty barn that smelled like hay and belonged to my dad. I got tears in my eyes when I imagined it.(My dad was a farmer, now dead.) That was my strongest symbol! As far as the stream... it was shallow, muddy, and not polluted, but not drinkable either! I was rather ambivalent about it. Hmmm....

 

[BlackShanglan]

The fence/wall, in my experience, has generated some of the most interesting responses. One friend simply stepped over it - "yeah, it's like three inches high." That made me smile. He's a very optimistic sort of person. He was also just out of college, and when he described his house he added without prompting, "It looks nice, but I don't live there. I don't know. Some sort of old people live there." Another friend, one of the most wary and walled-in people I have ever met, was the only person ever to ask who built the wall. He immediately added, "Because if I built it, I'm not crossing it."

The "most painful moment" award goes to a relative stranger who came to the wall, shrugged in a defeated way, and said "I give up and go home. There's no way over it." When the game was explained, he went very quiet and rather embarassed, then said, "Yeah, that's me." Later I learned from his friends that he'd just decided to drop out of graduate school. Poor sod.

Shanglan