Chapter 186 - Chapter 186: Chapter 186 Dreamland Treasure (1/2)

Chapter 186: Chapter 186 Dreamland Treasure

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Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland had long ended, but Xiang Kun was still sitting in his computer chair, motionless, staring straight ahead. He wasn’t spacing out, but deep in thought, tinged with a hint of excitement and anticipation.

When he gave the Minion Wood Carving to Xiao Pingguo, his original intention was to merely utilize the function of “Emotional Infusion” to prompt Xiao

Pingguo into having some cheerful dreams and add some variation to her life.

But to his surprise, having “observed” Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland once, the one who gained the most benefit and advantage was Xiang Kun himself.

He now felt an epiphany similar to when he initially discovered a new discipline, only to suddenly realize his understanding of certain issues was too simple and superficial.

At first, when he sensed Xiao Pingguo’s emotions and entered her dreamland, Xiang Kun felt like he “saw” nothing. All he could see was a void, with no images in the dreamland, only various sounds, like the two male voices delivering the crosstalk team comedy act.

Considering that Xiao Pingguo was congenitally blind, this wasn’t unusual for her dreamland.

But after a short while, Xiang Kun suddenly realized that he wasn’t entirely “blind”—he could sense the “shapes” of the men performing the crosstalk.

This kind of “seeing” wasn’t a direct visual observation but rather a direct cognitive construction in the mind. He knew what was there, and he had a rough idea of what it looked like.

This cognitive experience was different from the standard three-dimensional geometric structure we usually perceive. It was more like a semblance of point-line imaginary combination or an inconsistent “array” formed by countless small points.

Then Xiang Kun realized, the two performers of the crosstalk were “minions”, and their design was the same as the Minion Wood Carving he gave to Xiao Pingguo.

Of course, these two minions, unlike the minions Xiang Kun saw in reality, had many simplified details. If their images were materialized in reality, most people wouldn’t recognize what they were. Xiang Kun could only instantaneously realize that they were replicas of the Minion Wood Carving he had gifted because he could sense the emotions in Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland and share her “perception”.

The articles suggested that blind people, especially those blind from birth, tend to distinguish and judge objects through their topological structure.

“Topology” means abstracting an object into “points” independent of its size and shape, and abstracting its connections into “lines”. It further represents these points and lines in a graphical means.

Under certain conditions, a cup with a handle and a doughnut are topologically identical, but not the same as a cup without a handle.

This is not to say that blind people can’t tell the difference between a doughnut and a cup with a handle, but that their cognition process will focus more on the structural features.

Just like how ordinary people use vision to judge two people, deeming A attractive and B unattractive, but after touching, the blind might perceive these two as having similar looks, equivalently topologically structured. B might even be considered more “attractive” due to smoother skin.

The “sight” Xiang Kun perceived from Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland was not exact imagery, but something similar to a topological structure, albeit more complex in form.

These structures and forms came from Xiao Pingguo’s cognition built by touching the Minion Wood Carving and also included parts from her past auditory memories, like the voice of the minions from “Despicable Me”.

Of course, the images figmented in her mind were quite different from the actual Minion designs.

This cognitive mode of non-direct imagery and special perspective structure made Xiang Kun immediately understand a new way of cognition. He quickly reconstructed the process of carving the minion in his mind, amended and consolidated several steps. He knew how to carve more efficiently and the sequence to achieve the desired effects.

Not only did he identify the differences in the perception of the object structure, but Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland also provided him with great insight into sound perception.

He had always believed that even though Xiao Pingguo had more developed hearing due to her congenital blindness, she could not match up to his evolved and specified trained “vampire” hearing.

Indeed, that was the case. The sound details that Xiang Kun could hear were far more than Xiao Pingguo; their hearing abilities were leagues apart.

However, through Xiao Pingguo’s dreamland, Xiang Kun suddenly noticed many things that he usually would not pay attention to despite hearing them or would not understand even if he did pay attention.