Hello everyone!

I recently took the Briggs-Myers personality test. It is a type indicator test based on the typological theory of Carl Jung.
There are four different categories with 2 options in each, making a total of 16 possible personality types:
Extrovert/Introvert
Sensing/intuitive
Thinking/Feeling
Judging/Perceiving

I took the test on 16personalities, but there are a lot of sites out there with the test. It may also be smart to take it on many different sites to see if the result is still the same.

If you haven't taken the test I recommend doing so. It doesn't necessarily land spot on, but for me it certainly did, and if you recognise yourself in the type you landed on you might learn something about yourself you didn't already know in the process, which is always valuable for self improvement.

I did the test 3 times, with a couple of weeks in between, and got INFJ every time (Introvert/Intuitive/Feeling/Judging).
I think it would be interesting to see what types of personalities roam around the nexus, especially to see if theres a certain type drawn to these fields of interest and the more spiritual side of life. I think for one that a vast majority of us are introverts, but I could be wrong, so please tell me what type you all are

Peace

I took this test a ways back a few times and got INTP every time. Seemed pretty accurate when I read up on it.

Welcome to the Nexus!

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...&m=703801#post703801

I posted about this a few months back.

The MBTI at the top layer is fairly interesting, but when you get into the cognitive functions it definitely becomes a great tool for character development.

What I found incredibly interesting is the differing experiences with DMT dependent on dominant functions. This is by no means an exact science, I have 7 or 8 people in my study group but from what I can ascertain:

People with Ti in the dominant or auxiliary position seem to have a far less 'visual' experience, but usually seem to come out with more of an understanding of what just happened. As Ti is a very logical and process based function, this probably makes sense.

People with Fi in the dominant or auxiliary position seem to have a much more intense, insightful experience and tend to enjoy the afterglow in silence, reflecting on the experience.

People with Ne in the dominant or auxiliary position seem to have the most visually intense experience and can relate what happened during their trip to rational, real world events or memories. The Ne friends always want to talk about their trip, being able to describe their experience in great detail, as opposed to Ti dominants that seem to understand and are able to grasp some meaning from their trip, but struggle to vocalise or describe what happened.

It would be interesting to see if you have a similar circle of SWIM's to aid in my thesis. Again, this is purely from personal experience with a moderately-educated guess at their types.

If someone can find a single shred of evidence that the Meyers-Briggs is an accurate model of information processing, I'd appreciate that.

Blessings
~ND

Looks like I'm not the only one with some doubts then

ENTJ

Thanks Continuum!

Jaffster, my bad, I searched for threads like this, and I only found the one from 2010, I didn't realise you had done a similar one just a couple of months ago, sorry for that.
That is very interesting what you've concluded about experiences on DMT. Unfortunately none of my friends share my interest in these substances so I don't have a group I could try this with myself

Nathanial, Psybin and thymamai, I agree with you completely. I don't think this is an end-all personality type indicator, and I don't label myself as an "INFJ" after taking the test. indeed there are far more aspects to ones personality than these factors, but I don't think you need to buy the whole concept to find it interesting and possibly find something you could improve on as a person if you go at it with an open mind.
But yes, it is definitely also a bit indulgy wulgy , still, writing it off as irrelevant and useless seems a bit harsh to me. We don't have a definite answer to a lot of things, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't develop theories and new thinking models, after all that is how we advance in any given field.

Peace

Took it for the hell of it, INTJ is mine.

Im sure some people would probably fit clearly and easily into some or other category but I find it very hard to box myself in. I could answer many of the questions in multiple ways and still be 'right', but yielding totally different results in the end. So after getting completely opposite results I decided this doesn't work very well on me

It looks like I'm INTP...

-eg

Haha fair enough
Like I said, this is not something that needs to be taken very seriously, but I thought it was intriguing.
I suppose just as these tests could be used for personal growth, they could also have the opposite effect, hindering personal development.
If you label yourself with the ideas your type is described with and take it all at face value, you may also integrate the negative aspects of that type and think of them as a part of your personality, thinking you shouldn't try to change "what you are".
And that is also a good point; you need to quite strongly lean on either side of the spectrum to not get a different type each time you take the test, which also speaks something of it I guess
Have a great day!

Peace

Definitely IAMWHOIAM here.

Regardless of the validity of this particular test, I def do think it is an interesting question whether there are patterns in terms of personality types and psychedelic use.


Here's a relevant article:
http://www.sciencedirect...le/pii/S0924977X15000097

Interesting. Brain structure seems like a good starting point since it apparently affects personality to some extent.

The Myers-briggs doesn't make those claims.

It simply expands on the work of Carl Jung who had a thesis on the cognitive functions which the MBTI is built upon.

It is just a pseudo-science, I'll concede that point. But spend some time reading about it, you'll definitely start to see some correlation. Get a friend to take the test, read the type description, investigate their cognitive functions and it may well help you to understand them a little better. If it does, then the MBTI has been of benefit to you.

there is some moar in this thread

allow me to part the sea like moses on this topic........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

^ super impose that first on myers-briggs........

I got ISFP-A

INTJ. I think Myers Briggs gets an unfair bashing because it gets abused by the corporate world.

When I first took it it helped me a lot. As arguably the rarest personality I discovered why I often struggled to work with and communicate ideas and tasks to certain types of people. INTJ is a difficult mix of traits in a personality and I see that within myself: one the one hand I am very technically focused and come from an engineering education but at the same am time wildly conceptual and love doing fashion photography and abstract ideas.

My psychotherapist is also INTJ which not only is super rare for a female, also has to be the most unlikely career choice for one.

One a find more interesting and accurate than Myers Briggs is Enneagram which concentrates more on negative traits.