People who report seeing representations of passivity or helplessness in the blots are thought to have a dependent personality , meaning they rely on others to satisfy their needs .
If his paintings recall both the poster-scarred walls of a great city and the empty vastness of a parched landscape , their spreading flows of blackness also suggest those rorschach blots used in psychological testing .
I slept surprisingly well and woke to a view from my compartment that varied between immense tracts of farmland , villages of wooden houses , birch forests and sudden blots of ugly industrialised towns ; bucolic past met dystopian future .