oneirophrenia | How the hell can two questions determine all this?

And what is an "enneagram," anyway?

the Romantic
Test finished!

you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR.

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.

Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value
myself.

Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.

Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy,
I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.

Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep
level

my ability to establish warm connections with people

admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life

my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor

being unique and being seen as unique by others

having aesthetic sensibilities

being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a Four

experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair

feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved

feeling guilty when I disappoint people

feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me

expecting too much from myself and life

fearing being abandoned

obsessing over resentments

longing for what I don't have

Fours as Children Often

have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in
original game
s

are very sensitive

feel that they don't fit in

believe they are missing something that other people have

attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.

become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood

feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents'
divorce)

Fours as Parents

help their children become who they really are

support their children's creativity and originality

are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings

are sometimes overly critical or overly protective

are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy

Discover the 9 Types of People

HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

You are not completely happy with the result?!

You chose BY

Would you rather have chosen:

AY (EIGHT)

CY (SIX)

BX (NINE)

BZ (FIVE)

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 25% on ABC
You scored higher than 52% on XYZ

Link: The Quick and Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Christ...it's all true. Literally. Granted, there's a lot more to me than just the above characteristics...but they seem to be pretty damned spot-on.

The really weird thing is: I took my buddy Joe, who's planning on opening a coffeeshop in Morgantown in June, down to Jozarts, the coffeeshop/art gallery that I practically lived at while I was teaching at Cal U, so he could speak to the owners, make business contacts, and just generally check out the vibe of the place. He wasn't there two seconds and he declared it "officially totally cool." I wasn't there two seconds and some random girl came up to me and introduced herself: she's a sort of friend of Gravedigger Girl's, and an English major, who'd apparently heard about me from Cecilia (Gravedigger Girl). We ended up talking for almost three hours about...well, damnear everything--and at some point, she said: "I can just tell, you're such a Romantic, aren't you?" How the hell she got that from talking to me about my cat, horror writers, and Tim Burton movies, I don't know--but, anyway, it prompted me to take this quiz when I got home.

I say again: I was born 100 years too late. This confused, overly-cynical, and falt-out depressing world just isn't quite fit for me to live in.