Upgrading of My Brain – the Aftermath of Perception Balances

Huang Jinkun (Shenzhen)
March 23, 2012

After taking the Perception Balances workshop in the “Basic Life Skills”workshop series in mid-February 2012, I was in a state of constant confusion.”Strange” things happened periodically. Some parts of my body and consciousness had to be adjusting. Just that it was not at all clear which were.

In the first day of the Expression Balances workshop in the “Basic Life Skills” workshop series in mid-March, facilitator Conrad Ho asked as usual the participants what were going on in their lives since last time we met. At that time, my brain came across a piece of memory, in which I reconstructed in my brain vividly a “video” clip of my son in 3D in his absence. In that instance, I was a little bit emotional.

After several years of studying kinesiology, I realized that it was difficult for me to recollect others’ images in my brain, including my parents, my wife and my son, whom I would meet on a daily basis. What I was able to do was to see them in my mind’s eyes in still pictures. For some time, I was getting serious in overcoming this. I would study hard my son’s face when he was sleeping, and would re-ran my memory of his face once again before leaving. With similar experiences repeatedly, I finally came to the conclusion that I could only remember 2D images. The memory of my son’s 3D movements was unreachable for me.

After hearing my account, Conrad said my brain might have been “upgraded”. From early immobile robots “seeing” still images in front of them, to robots nowadays being able to comprehend visual information while they were moving, programmers and computer scientists had come a long way. Similarly, for human eyes to see from still 2D images to moving 3D images, the human brain must have accomplished a lot. It did not look dramatic but, in fact, it was.

As I listened to his comments, my mind roamed about and I was gradually excited¡C If Conrad’s hypothesis was right, that meant I would be doing things I liked in a more relaxed and efficient manner. A life path of ease would be laid before me. Another piece of memory stroke me. That day, while I was walking back to my office, watching familiar scenery along the way, I suddenly felt a trace of joy bubbling from within my heart. Strange! Nothing unusual was observed! What was going on? I blinked my eyes, looked more closely, and I found the scenery was NOT familiar at all! I saw things more vividly in 3D. I found that joy could be as simple as that, i.e. perceiving more sensory information in richer details.