Take a look at this image.
What might this be?
A frightening monster?
Two friendly bears?
Or something else entirely?
For nearly a century, ten inkblots like these have been used as what seems like an almost mystical personality test.
Long kept confidential for psychologists and their patients, the mysterious images were said to draw out the workings of a person's mind.
But what can inkblots really tell us, and how does this test work?
Invented in the early 20th century by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is actually less about the specific things we see, and more about our general approach to perception.
As an amateur artist Herman was fascinated by how visual perception varies from person to person.
