How to interpret your doodles
Ashlyn Goldston, Reporter
August 29, 2010
Filed under How TOs
Doodling marks a favorite pastime among a lot of high school students. While in a boring class, all you need is a writing utensil and something to write on, whether its notes, a piece of paper, your shoes, hand, or anything else. Once you have those materials, you’re set to say, “Adios”, to long classes!
Just like dreams reveal your subconscious, your doodling does too. Figure out what your fun little drawings before, during or after class say about you. Just follow these steps:
- 1. Think about what you normally doodle. Are they shapes? Animals? Faces? Nature related subjects? What do you draw? In case, off the top of your head, you don’t know what you draw, just grab something to write with and on and draw until your heart’s desire. Or, grab a piece of paper you have doodled on.
- 2. Think about, or look at the pictures you have drawn. Now, take a look at the analysis below and find out what your doodles affirm about you.
FACES: Is it of yourself or someone else? This makes a big difference. If it’s a simple face with a wide smile, it suggests a happy-go-lucky personality. If the doodle is of a beautiful face it can either mean that is how you want to be or that you are very sociable. Ugly faces can show that the person as a bad temper and doesn’t like people. Cartoons are art, not doodles.
EYES and MOUTHS: You’re an artist at heart. You either want to be noticed, or wish to regain privacy if you are feeling watched. (a doodle of an eye looking through a peephole). Mouths often represent frustration.
HOUSES: Is it a sloppy or neat house? If it’s a sloppy house, then you probably have an unhappy home life, if the house is opposite, then you are satisfied and fulfilled by your home life.
FLOWERS: Flowers are familiar and are often drawn as a child into adolescence. Flowers are often drawn by gentle, nature loving, nurturing people. Flowers frequently represent innocence and wistfulness.
GEOMETRICAL SHAPES: normally represent an organized and talented mind.
- TRIANGLE: a stable shape that tends to be drawn by people with a purpose and ambition.
- CIRCLE: Circles represent a need to find unity and peace. They can indicate someone who is struggling to make sense of life or a person with a strong intuitive sense that things will come together in life, work, relationships, et cetera.
HEARTS: indicate a romantic personality. Either you are in love, or want to be in love and find love.
BARS: if they intersect they can often indicate that you are feeling imprisoned
DOTS: If they are random, they often represent a person who is uneasy and disorganized. While carefully drawn dots can represent patience and tend to do things the hard way.
ABSTRACT SHAPES: Things such as random lines can often characterize somebody who is wistful and a feeling of distraction and aimlessness.
STRAIGHT LINES: represent a willful and determined person bothered by something.
3D BOXES: Often show a person to have an ordered mind and love of routine.
LADDERS AND ARROWS: A desire to succeed. Depending on where the ladder is, it could represent you trying to get somewhere but there are obstacles, or you want to make it to the top of a personal or corporate ladder.
STARS: Are normally drawn by ambitious people that want to promote themselves in life. Little starts represent optimism, while uneven and big stars represent an excess of energy.
Objects like circles, suns, flowers, hearts, spirals, cups, balloons, rings, shoes, loops, fruit, waves, etc. are drawn by people who tend to want love and harmony. These people are usually emotional.
Down-to-earth, practical people who need security and like to be in control tend to draw things with square shapes or flat surfaces, or symbols of material security (squares, boxes, houses, doors, windows, walls, fences, ladders, stairs, tables, chairs, chessboards, books, forts, towers, fireplaces, money, numbers, block letters, punctuation marks etc).
Practical objects, such as houses, boxes, books, fences, stairs, money, numbers, towers, boxes, chairs, chessboard, etc. are often drawn by down-to-earth, practical people. These people often need security and to be in control.
Determined people tend to draw objects that promote masculinity. These can include: stars, stick figures, crowns, arrows, weapons, speed boats, trains, warships, lighthouses, motorbikes, lightning, kites, birds with beaks, etc.
You may draw all of these, some, or none of these, but doodles can reveal a lot of people, just like handwriting. Share this with friends and see what their doodles reveal about them.
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