neraliu's blog internet profession in between hongkong/china and silicon valley (no longer, but the world!)

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

it really loves this book as the author mark haddon can use some simple words and sentences in describing the inner world of a people mind - "My memory is like a film….And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward and Pause like on a video recorder….If someone says to me, 'Christopher, tell me what your mother was like,' I can rewind to lots of different scenes and say what she was like in those scenes.".

it looks simple but it can make you image what is really in your mind, if you ask me how to get to the place where i have visited before, my brain can start visualizing the surroundings by building the scene immediately, once the places are done, i can start visualizing how to navigate in the place and finally get into the right direction, how wonderful! but i don't know why i can make it. and this visual memory depends on how can i link up different places together. what does it mean? if i go to one place today, and another place tomorrow, even though there are some places cross over together, they are still resided as the separate memory on my mind. hm..., this is interesting, but i am start wondering how to make 2 visual memory link together.