Look closely at Google's Rorschach doodle: What do you see?

If one were to analyse Google today, you would infer that it is clever, social, has a great sense of humour and is in tune with Internet memes. Today’s Google Doodle, which pays homage to Hermann Rorschach, shows a pair of hands (presumably yours) holding a card with an ink blot on it, while a serious looking man on the other hand stares at you a tad glumly. You are expected to figure out what the ink blot looks like to you, and then, if you wish, share your observation on either Google Plus, Twitter or Facebook. Even if you have never heard about Hermann Rorschach, chances are you know about his ink blot test. The one where you stare at an ink blot and tell someone what you think it looks like. If you see for example, two fairies flitting around it may signify that you are of an ‘innocent’ nature or that you see ‘charm’ in everything. (Or that you’re delusional) Google’s ink blots are varied, and as usual, it has thrown in its customary easter egg. In between perfectly ordinary looking ink blots you will suddenly find two dinosaurs playing with a football, or a cat with a butterfly hovering over its head.  Your social networking feeds are likely to be flooded with people’s take on the ink blots. Who knows? Perhaps you’ll find out a lot more about their personalities by the end of the day. (Cue sinister music) The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person’s personality traits and emotional functioning. It’s also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly. You see the ink blot test used widely in movies most often involving grave psychologists who show them to deranged prisoners in fancy looking institutes. In Alan Moore’s Watchmen, one of the main characters calls himself Rorschach and wears a mask - which is really a white cloth covered in ink blots. According to Wikipedia, Hermann Rorschach was known to his school friends as Klecks, or “inkblot” since he enjoyed klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot “pictures”. Unlike his classmates, however, Rorschach went on to make inkblots his life’s work. Later, it seems, the excitement in intellectual circles over psychoanalysis constantly reminded Rorschach of his childhood inkblots. Wondering why different people often saw entirely different things in the same inkblots, he began, while still a medical student, showing inkblots to schoolchildren and analyzing their responses. in 1921 he wrote his book Psychodiagnostik, which was to form the basis of the inkblot test. The inkblots were an overnight success due to the seemingly miraculous behaviour readings they provided. However, they were considered scientifically worthless by several psychologists.