Lenora went into a drugstore to buy film. When she came out she was ripping mad. “Rodney, go into that store and cut that man real good!”, she said to her boyfriend.
“Why, honey?” asked Rodney, “what happened?”
“I told him I wanted some film for my camera,” she explained, “and he had the nerve to ask me what was the size of my Brownie!”
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Perhaps you have heard of a Rorschach test...
The analyst was concerned about the results of a Rorschach test he had just given to the patient, who associated every ink blot with some sort of sexua| activity.
“I want to study the results of your test over the weekend and I would like to see you Monday.” He said to the patient.
“Okay, doc. I am going to a stag party tomorrow night. Any chance I might borrow those dirty pictures of yours?”
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What the patient believes is there; and what he sees is not there, it is his projection. What he hears may not be said at all, but one can hear it very clearly, so clearly that it is impossible not to believe in it. Your mind is coloring everything every moment.
Communication is often attempted, but miscommunication is more likely the result.
You can read something which is not written. You can hear something which is not said. You can see something which does not exist anywhere except in you own imagination.
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