Dr Burns observes that "a preoccupation with sexuality usually shows up in figures whose genital areas are emphasised and heavily shaded or in the repeated use of classic sexual symbols such as snakes, candles, or darts striking a target". An absence of arms means withdrawal." Do our doodles reveal sexual thoughts?ĭr Burns claims that one's relative preoccupation with sex also shows itself through one's doodles. Very small eyes or no eyes at all, suggest someone who doesn't want to see. Very large eyes suggest vigilance, for instance, or in extreme cases, paranoia. Physical features, especially any that are abnormally large or small, carry special meaning. He maintains that: "Men tend to doodle geometric shapes while women are more likely to doodle human figures and faces.
Do men and women doodle differentlyĭr Burns claims that gender is a factor in doodling patterns. So take it from this doodle dandy - and you thought your doodles only meant. People who fill their doodles with stars may be longing for something they were deprived of, like love or affection." Stars, for instance, show up all the time in the drawings of emotionally deprived children. He adds: "Even at their simplest, the idle jottings we repeat in the margins of our notebooks can evoke childhood memories and associations that provide clues even to our obsessions. But what of the claim that the study of doodles is unimportant since there is no way of knowing what the scribbles symbolise to the scribbler - if anything at all?ĭr Burns counters that it is only after careful study of doodles over many years and from many different individuals that the patterns of doodle symbolism and their significance emerge. Doodling becomes a kind of visual free association, a way of tapping the deep reservoir of self-knowledge contained not in words but in images.
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