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Why am I having an Urge to Mold Clay? Is this normal?

• Tonight I was laying down and getting ready to go to sleep. As I lay there I began to have this overwhelming urge to mold with clay as to create something. I didn't have anything specific in mind, I just felt like I needed to. Let me add that I am not an artist, nor have I ever had a desire to paint, scult, or play with clay or ceramics. Anyway, I remembered that my daughter had clay in the pantry so I went and got some. I layed back down, closed my eyes and played with the clay for awhile. When I was done I was a little puzzled at what I saw. The clay looked in the shape of a fetus. Probably nothing. Right? I looked it up to see if people have had clay and molding cravings, but I haven't found much? Urges to mold clay? Does it mean anything? Or am I just going through some urge to go back to my playdoo days as a child?

• Answer:

  For a lot of people playing with something in their hands is soothing. Look at chinese health balls, or Greek worry beads. So it is normal. People have the urge to move their fingers, hands. Doodling isn't much different. What you did was you wanted to doodle in 3D. We humans always try to see pattern and faces and humans in anything we see. So seeing something in a faily random lump of clay is normal. Seeing a fetus probably means it was somewhere similar to the shape, but somebody else might have seen something very different or nothing at all.