I truly belive this;are the eye's the windows of the soul! if i look away from you while your talking to me,
Im not paying attention to what your explaining>>>> but if i look deep in your eyes im focusing on your every word and i would greatful
To talk with someone that looks back into my eyes looking into one's eye's maybe your future! friendship {caution} most people cannot look you in the eye}for one reason or another if you like he/she ask them why?, this takes me back to childhood remember your folks used to say look at me hummmmm!so what do you think can you look someone in the eye's koolaid:

why is this in the science and philosophy forum???

lol, The eyes thing is a cultural belief, in some cultures it is offensive to look in the eye.

I am in America though and was raised to make eye contact. So I dont know any other way to show I am paying attention but to look in someones eyes and it kind of makes me suspicious if they dont look in mine when speaking to me.

She is trying to find out about looking in the eyes and communicating.....I guess this is a search for the truth....
Anyway I enjoy looking people in the eyes while talking as their eyes say lots of things such as bored, interested.....etc .

It's all fair and dandy, but what if you're talking to or listening to a blind person? Where goes your attention then?

How about speaking to spirits?

Or God? Prayers? Does God have a soul? Indeed, this is questionable, since noone has looked Him in the eye ever.

What about pooking a needle in the eye? Do it to it before it does it to you.

What about the sailor? Aye, aye, captain. That captain's got two ayes. What if he's a more bona fide captain Morgan, with one aye? Are people going to listen to him?

Oh, and what about listening or speaking to a crowd. The theoretical maximum of the number of people you can look in the eye at any given time is two. And you need to be cross eyed for that.

So... there is more than one way of milking a cat, there is always a way of arguing about anything, there is always a way to turn something into a philosophical debate, no matter how un-philosophical the proposition sound just at first.

In Toronto in a two-way conversation a speaker looks in the listener's eyes only periodically. The listener has his or her view affixed on the speaker's pupils (eye holes).

This disconcerted me when I first arrived here, from Hungary where constant two-way eye contact is held at all times. But now I feel strange and like wanting to jump out of my skin if I look at the person I speak to. Unless the listener is not looking at me, in which case I talk to him or her and watch his or her movements, body talk, eyes.

The above is a cultural custom. The belief is a different issue that may or may not relate to the custom. I don't know how much of believing that the eyes are the mirror to the soul, or the windows have to do with watching each other. It's the easiest way to make a strange dog mistrust you to the point of his or her biting you or at least getting aggessive: Look it in the eye constantly. Fish don't like it either, so do not mollusks, amoebas and the Grand Canyon. I lived in two cultures, in one the eye was the window to the soul, in the other, the mirror. While customs may differ, the belief may be pervasive across the species, not recognising cultural boundaries and differences. I don't know.

I looked (at least an aspect of) God in the eye. It was during the 30 minutes that I died. It's a very inhuman looking eye, but there is an eye and therefore I assume, a soul.

I won't spend much time with one who won't look me in the eye..

Hey. You're the third zombie I hear from.

Do you also have trouble keeping your eyeballs solid and not oozing out of their sockets?

What about the maggots that eat your guts?

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man i want to crack a one liner here about where men's eyes tend to drift when talking to a knockout lady. if just there wasn't so many knockout ladies here that i want to talk to.............

What im wishing you blind folks to is: the forest for the trees!koolaid

I used to look intently into people's eyes until when at work I was told that my gaze was too intense. So I stopped doing it. Now I wish I could break myself of looking away because I feel some people see that as dishonest.

I agree with you that looking in someone's eye is important I myself always look into people eyes. If someone turns it means to me the person is either weak or have some other personal problems.

But I disagree with you that the eyes are the windows into someone's sole. What would you find in an eye of serial killer for example? If you think you can figure out if he is a killer or not you are wrong. You never know. You cannot read minds looking into people eyes. if you think you do your on the way to become their next victim. Do not believe me ask any criminal investigator they will explain it better than I did.

I have high-functioning autism, so I don't naturally look people in the eyes... or at them... or speak with normal inflection. Now I just do it because I've conditioned myself to do so.

I agree that it's wholly a cultural thing. Had I not been brought up with the idea that you have to look people in the eyes to talk to them, I wouldn't be doing so.

Frankly, I think most of the guys are sneaky or have something to hide:
when they talk to me, they start looking into my eyes, but then their eye sight shifts down to my lips, neck, ... all the way down my blouse!

Does my not wearing a bra have to do anything with it ? ? ?

Or are they really sneaky or have something to hide? ? ?

I think that whether or not you look people in the eye, how close you stand, how loudly you speak, etc are all cultural and probably different in different locations.

Seriously speaking, though, the eyes are called the Windows to the Soul for a reason:
they're dirrectly connected to the brain, and often alow for a two-way communication -- no wonder you can perceive various inconsistencies (such as, increased iris, for example, or a frequent blinking) when a person you're speaking to is being dishonest/untruthful...

In fact, the eyes tend to transmite some bio-waves/fluids that some of us are capable of pereceiving. Deceitful people are shying away from the dirrect eye contact. Lovers, on the other hand, often gaze into each other's eyes as a sign of a complete mutual trust and confidence... (take that into account, John, if you ever get a chance of speaking with me face to face, LOL)

*** Even the main rule of the job-interview is maintaining an eye contact with the person addressing you (along with everybody else)...

There sure is much more to eyes, than meets the eye!!! ________________________________________

If you see anyone who grows suspicious of your eye-contact habits, just reach up and poke their eyes out. Problem solved.

You must be kidding -- she could be charged with ... being OVER-PERCEPTIVE!!!