Chapter 360 It turns out to be heart blindness
Crooked eyes and thick mouth? Su Mei looked at Huo Jianguo suspiciously. Didn't he say that he couldn't remember other people's faces?
"What did you say?" Su Shengxue was dumbfounded. "Tell me, that girl who looks very beautiful, as beautiful as the female educated youth in the city, she...she is Yang Suhua?"
"Beautiful?" Su Mei caught the word and looked at Su Shengxue suspiciously, "Fifth brother, were you peeking at her?"
"What do you mean by peeking? I was looking at her openly and openly. I didn't hide anything at all! No wonder she looked familiar to me. I didn't remember that she was Yang Suhua." Su Shengxue still finds it unbelievable.
Without outsiders around, Su Shengxue put away his reserve and quickly returned to his usual carefree self.
Su Mei couldn't help but laugh when she heard this and said, "Do you regret it? Sister Su Hua is so beautiful. If you hadn't been so nervous, I might not have stopped her from marrying you. Now you have a beautiful woman in your arms!"
"There's nothing to regret. Marriage requires like-minded people and the ability to communicate. What's wrong with being pretty? It can't make a living. I thought she was pretty when she lived in the village... But the climate and soil in the city are really good for people. It's true that she looks even better now." Su Shengxue felt that there were great changes in everyone, whether it was Yang Suhua, Li Shufen, or Qiuqiu.
In fact, it is not the city life that supports people. If a person experiences less hardship and does less hard labor, his mental outlook will be very different. Su Mei responded to Su Shengxue's words and said:
"It's quite nourishing, so I want my fifth brother to come too!"
"Okay, it's coming." Su Shengxue answered lightly, covering up the heaviness in his heart.
It is indeed here, but I cannot stay. I can only take a quick glance at this colorful world and be a passer-by.
It's okay if you haven't seen the outside world, but once you walk out of the mountains, travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, you will see all kinds of things outside.
How can I forget the hustle and bustle of this world and return to that lonely and dull village to live a boring and dull life.
These cannot be said, Su Shengxue doesn't want Su Mei to worry too much.
He could only comfort himself by coming over to help Su Mei repair the yard. He should be content to see this different world.
The distance was not too far. Huo Jianguo and Su Mei accompanied Su Shengxue for more than twenty minutes and finally arrived at the newly purchased yard of Su Mei.
The yard is no longer deserted. During this period, Yang Suhua and Li Shufen came to clean it from time to time.
After entering the yard, Huo Jianguo and Su Mei took Su Shengxue into the best room in the yard.
The bed was neatly laid out and the room was swept cleanly, with mosquito repellent herbs spread on the floor.
After making arrangements for Su's further studies, Su Mei and Huo Jianguo left and went back home.
After leaving the yard, Su Mei asked Huo Jianguo another question. She said, "Jianguo, I found that your face blindness doesn't seem to be that serious. You seem to remember most of the people we have met together.
There are a bunch of women in Sister Shufen's yard, but you can tell who is who, and it doesn't seem as serious as you described before."
"I can't remember what they look like, but if I remember their facial features, voices, clothing styles, and heights, I can basically remember them.
"I couldn't recognize you at that time because your figure, makeup, and outfit had suddenly changed a lot. Normally, I wouldn't fail to recognize someone! I'm face-blind, but I'm not stupid!" Huo Jianguo explained helplessly.
Su Mei felt that Huo Jianguo's explanation was very convincing: "Then when you were in the army, everyone was about the same height, and their uniforms and hairstyles were exactly the same. How did you recognize your own soldiers? You couldn't tell who was who if they didn't speak?"
"I can tell them apart!" Although Huo Jianguo didn't know why Su Mei suddenly asked this, he still explained: "I can remember the facial features, just look at them a few times, I can recognize them when I see them, but when I'm not around, I can't remember what they look like at all.
So if I don’t see someone often, I will forget who that person is!”
"So it's not that you can't see other people's faces clearly, you just can't remember their faces, right?" Su Mei asked.
Huo Jianguo nodded: "Is that so? Is there any difference? Anyway, it is very difficult to recognize people. I learned how to remember people after I met my father. He taught me how to remember people based on their facial features.
Before I met him, the only people I could remember were those close to me. "
"How did you train?" Su Mei asked curiously.
Huo Jianguo replied: "He prepared 500 photos of warriors for me, and there was a name behind each photo. For three consecutive months, I went to train at night to remember these people.
After three months of training under his guidance, I could recognize 500 photos without making any mistakes. I have mastered the skill of recognizing people."
Five hundred? That's a lot?
The training intensity is quite high.
"Can you still remember the people in these photos now?" Su Mei asked.
"I can't remember!" Huo Jianguo shook his head, "I can't remember a single one! I said, I can only remember who he is when I see him, but if you ask me to think, I have no impression at all."
"Then why do you remember that Yang Suhua had crooked eyes?" Su Mei continued to ask.
Huo Jianguo responded very seriously: "This is her facial feature! I can't remember her face, but I can remember her features in words?"
"Huo Jianguo." Su Mei suddenly stopped and looked at Huo Jianguo. She said, "Close your eyes."
"Why are you closing your eyes?" Huo Jianguo asked, stopping and doing as he was told.
Su Mei said, "Now imagine a red five-pointed star in your mind. Tell me, can you see the five-pointed star clearly?"
"What five-pointed star?" Huo Jianguo was confused. "I can't see anything when I close my eyes. It's pitch black!"
·······Su Mei understood.
Normal people can see the five-pointed star with their eyes closed, and can even see a three-dimensional five-pointed star.
At the very least, you can see a light-colored or yellow five-pointed star.
Huo Jianguo, however, could see nothing.
This shows that he does not have the ability to convert his mental images into pictures.
This is an imaginary disorder.
This disorder is not face blindness, but heart blindness.
If a person closes his eyes and cannot imagine the face, eye color, hair texture, skin details of the person he loves most... and sees only a pitch-black scene, then this person has heart blindness.
People with severe heart blindness may experience face blindness, but they can be trained to recognize people normally.
Su Mei has always been curious about how people with prosopagnosia can recognize so many people through training... Only now did she realize that it was actually another disease.
"Why aren't you talking?" Huo Jianguo still had his eyes closed, waiting for Su Mei's further instructions!
Su Mei came back to her senses, and she said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, you can open your eyes now!"
"What does that mean?" Huo Jianguo still didn't understand.
"When I close my eyes, I can play movies in my head and imagine a lot of fantastic scenes." People with heart blindness cannot imagine in their minds, but this disease, if not serious, generally will not have a big impact on life.
Prosopagnosia caused by severe heart blindness is easily confused with face blindness. If Su Mei had not heard Huo Jianguo's detailed description of Yang Suhua's facial features, she would not have realized that they were two different problems.
However, this disease is much better than blindness. Many people with milder conditions may not even know that they have this disease.
Huo Jianguo didn't know what it felt like to have a picture in his mind, he was still confused:
"Playing movies in your head?"