When I first encountered the concept of Indigo Children, I started going through every description I could find like a checklist. Not to label myself or anyone else, but because the resonance was undeniable. Something in the description felt like hearing your own story told back to you for the first time.
This “test” is not a clinical assessment. It is an invitation to honest self-reflection. Read each statement slowly. Notice what fires up inside you — a yes, a no, or something more complicated. That reaction itself is information.
The Indigo Children Test
Answer each of these honestly. There is no score to calculate. If a majority of these feel deeply true, you are likely carrying Indigo energy into this lifetime.
Part One: How You Experience the World
- You have always felt fundamentally different from most people around you, even within your own family.
- You feel things more intensely than others — emotions, environments, other people’s moods, and even the energy of spaces.
- You can sense when someone is being dishonest or inauthentic, even when they are saying all the right words.
- Large crowds, noisy environments, or emotionally chaotic spaces drain you quickly and leave you needing time alone to recover.
- You have always felt a strong connection to nature — forests, water, open sky — more at home outdoors than in most human-made spaces.
- You have vivid inner experiences: rich dream life, strong intuitions, and moments of knowing things before they happen.
Part Two: Your Relationship with Systems and Authority
- Traditional schooling felt confining or misaligned. You learned best when allowed to explore freely rather than follow a rigid curriculum.
- You struggle to follow rules that seem arbitrary, pointless, or unjust. You need to understand the why, not just be told what.
- You have a built-in resistance to hierarchy for its own sake. Titles and positions do not impress you — wisdom and integrity do.
- You have often been labeled “difficult,” “too sensitive,” “too intense,” or “too much” by people who didn’t understand how to hold your energy.
- You have walked away from jobs, relationships, or entire life paths because they did not align with your deeper values, even when others thought you were crazy for doing so.
Part Three: Your Inner Mission
- From a young age you had a strong feeling — sometimes unexplainable — that you were here for a specific purpose.
- You care deeply about justice, truth, and the wellbeing of the collective, not just your immediate circle.
- Creative expression is not a hobby for you. It is how you process reality and communicate what words alone cannot hold.
- You are drawn to healing, whether through energy work, art, conversation, or simply your presence in a room.
- The idea of contributing to a better world is not idealistic fluff to you — it is a genuine calling that motivates you even when it is inconvenient.
What Does It Mean If You Resonate?
First: this is not about being special in the ego sense. Indigo energy is not a ranking system. It is a descriptor of a particular vibrational configuration — a set of gifts and challenges that came packaged together in this lifetime for a reason.
If you recognize yourself strongly in this test, it means you are carrying sensitive and powerful energy that this world very much needs right now. It also means you may have spent a lot of your life feeling misunderstood, exhausted, or like you were fundamentally out of sync with the world around you.
“The sensitivity that makes you an Indigo is not your weakness. It is your most powerful instrument. You were not meant to harden. You were meant to learn to wield it.”
The practices that have helped me most in working with this energy are the same ones that show up in every authentic spiritual tradition: daily movement and breathwork, time in nature, honest creative expression, and community with others who vibrate at a similar frequency. The energy practices I’ve written about elsewhere are not incidental to this path — they are foundational to it.
If this test sparked something in you, dive into the other posts in this series on Indigo Children Characteristics and abilities. The more you understand the nature of your energy, the better equipped you become to use it wisely.
Originally published on vibrationofawesome.com circa May 2015. Archived here as part of the Vibration of Awesome legacy collection.
Matt Dunn
A creator in the unfolding.
Empower thyself. Empower the Earth.
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