The Science Behind Love At First Sight

Can you really fall in love with someone the first time you see them?


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“The research was conducted mainly through the use of functional magnetic imaging, or fMRI. This tool is used to spot brain activity by looking at blood flow levels in the brain. This cutting-edge technology is used in hospitals to help diagnose brain diseases, but is also used to assist scientists study thoughts and feelings like love in a person.”

The Fascinating Science Behind Love at First Sight
“Love at first sight is hard to explain. Some people swear they’ve fallen prey to its mystical power, while others chalk it up to folklore and too many viewings of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo & Juliet. We tend to gravitate towards the latter category, being the doubting, scientific-minded realists we are.”

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[eviebrady]

Who else just saw someone and felt a connection with them and then looks up “love at first sight” just me? Ok.

[courtneypetersen]

I never believed in true love at first sight until I experienced it personally. It felt like time stopped for a split second.

[bobdavis]

I saw my wife walking home from school when she was 14 and I was 15 now we have been married 44 years. So yes it happens.

[JJAG]

I fell in love at first sight. She didn't...

[lvfan]

I am 42 and I experienced it just yesterday with someone that felt the same way and it was automatic. It really does exist. I didn’t think it did. It may take longer for others, but I must say it is the most beautiful experience and I am happy to be able to start this experience now.

[ahlinad]

When I was 17, I was trying to read a banner from afar and a guy standing next to it mistakenly thought I was looking at him. I looked back and both of us stared into eachother's eyes for around 10 seconds- during that time I felt this instant connection, like I knew him for years. That moment I was convinced pure love at first sight exists.

[DBHHellhound]

I lived this "attraction" at first sight. Too bad it wasn't mutual...

[LordAlpaca]

I felt this love at first 4 years ago. The person was so influential on my life yet we’re strangers. I traveled so many place I think he could be just to find he wasn’t. Welp, I moved on, fell in love with someone else and moved to study abroad. Yet he still appears in my dream and pops up unconsciously in my head.
Sometimes I just really wonder why is the thought of him still haunting me until now.

[terrytderage]

it sucks when its just you that see's the love at first sight

[leilaforrestal]

I met this guy a few years ago. right when I met him I knew he'd gonna be a good friend for a long time. we became friends, REALLY good friends..then we started dating 4 months ago.💜

[fayleurefayleure]

I actually met my soulmate because of "Love at first sight"
We never fight, we've known each other for a while. Also, he's perfect so, i'm good.

[HMTR]

I believe love at first sight is real. When I was 13 there was a girl in my 9th grade math class whom after the first sight of her, I spent the next 4 years obsessively crushing on her. It wasn't a sexual attraction because I wasn't thinking of sex. I fantasized and dreamed of dating her and stuff. Hell, I even stalked her Facebook everyday for the next 6 years. We're 21 now and to this day she has no idea who I am or that I even existed.

[natalie]

Yep that's me and my hubby😁
Married 15 years and still crazy about each other.

[rubycresswell]

Tonight, I experienced almost an instant connection to this woman that walked in while I was working. I was so shy, and we kept making eye contact and then looking away. Later on, I walked over and told her she was gorgeous and she said the same to me and that she was shy. I didn’t get her number or social media or anything, but I can’t stop thinking about her. I haven’t felt this feeling in so long, let alone a connection. Life is so strange, but hopefully we will meet again.

[CynderSpirit]

If hate at first sight exist then so does love, science is always trying to disprove love but don't discount hatred. If you can hate someone without ever knowing them for just existing, Then why can't you love someone when you first meet them and be immediately smitten to the point where you both form a strong bond.

[beenyou]

Genetic compatibility, huh. Interesting.

I remember when I felt this. It was so long ago but the impression still stuck. It really is as described in books or movies; the world stops, the person becomes the focal point of your vision, you forget to breathe; all that stretched in a single second.

[TunaNom]

I experienced love at first sight once in my life, I saw him and the world slowed and I blushed and shyed away immediately. We dated for one year and 4 months but broke up after he dumped me after he made out with my best friend. Back when he dated he claimed he also fell for me that day but the last time I asked he said he didn't and that it was only me.

[actionfx]

Attraction or lust at first sight are probably the more accurate ways to put it, and like he said in the video, love may develop from said initial attraction

[lizatanzawa]

old Japanese proverb: Every human has a thousand perfect mates; you only have to find one

[tierneytellsstories]

I'm a psychology major and a hopeless​ romantic and I'm so happy that love at first sight has been proven by science