In its attempts to gain insights into how someone’s mind operates, Internet users in Japan have discussed looking at how people cross their arms, make a fist, or even eat ice cream. However, as waking actions, one could argue that all of those can be influenced by conscious thought, thus diminishing their effectiveness as indicators of pure, subconscious psyche.
On the other hand, a new personality test shared by Japanese Twitter user @lenri_rinle examines only the unconscious action of examining how a person sleeps. @lenri_rinle has diagramed eight different sleeping poses, with corresponding traits listed for each.
Let’s take a look at each, starting in the top left of the chart before going to the top right, then moving down the columns in the same manner.
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The King Individualistic, confident
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The Hug Frustrated, idealistic
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The Fetus Pampered, clingy
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The Half-Fetus Balanced, indecisive yet rational
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The Prone Position Nervous and sensitive, but a capable worker
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The Sphynx Common among kids, rare among adults
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The Prisoner Crosses ankles, unsuccessful in career and interpersonal relationships
- The Raised Legs Nervous, sensitive, and short-tempered, but has a strong memory
Some of these sound pretty reasonable. For example, the body language of the King, with legs and arms spread wide, implies the slumberer feels no fear even when exposed, perhaps stemming from ample self-reliant psychological strength. Likewise, one could interpret the Hug’s embracing of a pillow, ostensibly because there’s no human around, as an unfulfilled yearning for more companionship and support in day-to-day life, which could lead to increased feelings of frustration.
However, some of the other connections are harder to imagine. What makes someone who sleeps on his stomach more likely to be good at his job than anyone else? Why should people who sleep with their legs raised have short tempers, unless perhaps because they’re irritated by sore knee joints and fatigued calf muscles? And when has anyone, barring the extremely inebriated, ever slept in the Sphynx position?
Still, if nothing else, at least sleeping position seems like a more plausible personality test than blood type.
Source: Wadai no Gazo
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gokai_wo_maneku
Add this to my blood type and you'll know everything about me! Scary!
sf2k
Desperation to put people into boxes
SenseNotSoCommon
Peer reviewed, of course.
Aly Rustom
agree with the above posters about correlating this to blood type. Both are utter BS
TravelingSales
Surely it depends on which girl you're with.
goldorak
What a silly test!
One could argue that 1 and 8 are in fact (not so) subliminal messages to your partner that say: "ready when you are babe/mate".
PerformingMonkey
My wife manages all of those in a night.
gaijinfo
This is about as accurate as that blood type nonsense.
Spanki
Nice and positive!
Penske Nievko
About as reliable as "blood type" personality tests & horoscopes.
commanteer
In the world of scientific validation, "some guy on Twitter says so" must be as close to the bottom as one can get. This ranks with those clickbait personality tests on Facebook. Probably some outsourced workers in Mindanao pump several out each day.
thepersoniamnow
The conductor of this theory left out a major fact. How you sleep is affected by where and whom you sleep with. Obviously a kid on a King size bed will be inclined over time to sleep in one way and a ex NBA player in prison has to fetus up on his tiny cot.
englisc aspyrgend
Arrant claptrap.
paulinusa
Just more silly fodder for the gullible.
Yubaru
And says nothing about just what personality trait it is supposed to represent. Seems to me that ALL of them have "problems" attached!
sensei258
This is pointless, since people change positions often while sleeping. So one could potentially be all of those in one night.