When I went in for my first medical as a kid, the doctor gave me the psychological test right away. He showed me a picture with colored blotches and asked what I saw. I told him that I saw a butterfly. He asked if I was serious. What did I really see? I told him he might think I was off-kilter, but the truth was, it looked a lot like a nine to me. He showed me another. What did I see?
An elephant.
Try again.
Okay, it looks like the number three. I knew I'd failed then. God damn if everything didn't look like some kind of number, except a few and there wasn't anything there. Just colored dots.
Those looked like a butterfly. Maybe a butterfly pelted by colored stones. Definitely a stoned butterfly.