Locking eyes...

[The_Dark]

Have you ever just seen someone.. and no matter how far away they were... your eyes just locked on theirs.. and you know they are looking back... Not in a sexual attraction way.. I'm not sure I have the correct words.. It's like.. You know you would like that person on some level and they would like you back in kind. There is a... recognition... A mutal something. I don't really know how else to explain it. Am I the only one?

[Guest Game of Chance]

Have you ever just seen someone.. and no matter how far away they were... your eyes just locked on theirs.. and you know they are looking back... Not in a sexual attraction way.. I'm not sure I have the correct words.. It's like.. You know you would like that person on some level and they would like you back in kind. There is a... recognition... A mutal something. I don't really know how else to explain it. Am I the only one?

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Nope, it has happened quite a bit to me

[Brenda Starrr]

Nope. It happens with me all the time. Probably because I just enjoy looking someone dead in the eye. It's intimidating (for them, usually), which is a turn-on for me.

[Homicidalheathen]

I think about moving to a small town for this very reason....where people take the time to say Hi and don't look wierd or feel strange doing so....

I think I miss out on a lot of potential freinds this way....I live near Detroit....you say Hi to someone and they think you want to hold them up or something.....

[honeymustard02]

Weird that I found this post.

I've actually been thinking about this because of someone I work with. I feel like I've known him before. But I know very little about him.

[kellygrrrrrl]

I love to make eye contact because of that. Sometimes you just know who is and who isn't "friend"

I think it is some sort of 6th sense......

You know, like knowing what someone will say next...like you knew what they were thinking....or finishing someone's sentence.

I also think that this same sense can be sensed through your family pet.

More so in cats and dogs. Silent communications.

Neet stuff I think.

[holliwood66]

Yes, happends frequently...I think it is a cultural thing. You get many more instances of prolonged eye contact in the US that most other places.

In Central and South America as well as many African Countries and Asia it would be extremely rude and threatening. Here, we use meeting eyes to establish power and associate eye contact with truthfullness.

That being said, I am a very American communicator here and try not to do it when I am abroad.

but books aside, sometimes I get caught checking someone out for whatever reason. Sometimes I act embarassed or pretend I was not scoping, other times I boldly meet the stare :devil

[JaneDead]

happens to me often as well.

[Homicidalheathen]

So is this one of the reasons we are called 'rude' americans? We stare people down in the street.....? :cheerful

Yes, happends frequently...I think it is a cultural thing. You get many more instances of prolonged eye contact in the US that most other places.

In Central and South America as well as many African Countries and Asia it would be extremely rude and threatening. Here, we use meeting eyes to establish power and associate eye contact with truthfullness.

That being said, I am a very American communicator here and try not to do it when I am abroad.

but books aside, sometimes I get caught checking someone out for whatever reason. Sometimes I act embarassed or pretend I was not scoping, other times I boldly meet the stare  :devil

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[EvilEve]

Nope. It happens with me all the time. Probably because I just enjoy looking someone dead in the eye. It's intimidating (for them, usually), which is a turn-on for me.

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i agree with you here. personally, i enjoy a good eye-locking contest with someone, just to see if they'll turn away. most times they do. other times, i just get really creeped out by the person because i saw something i didn't like, and i turn away, but that doesn't happen often. (i'm an intimidating 5'3" person! grr!!)

[Shade Everdark]

It does not happen to me at all.

But as I'm sure most here have guessed, I'm not a very socially adroit or connective person.

[kellygrrrrrl]

i agree with you here. personally, i enjoy a good eye-locking contest with someone, just to see if they'll turn away. most times they do. other times, i just get really creeped out by the person because i saw something i didn't like, and i turn away, but that doesn't happen often. (i'm an intimidating 5'3" person! grr!!)

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Staring contest?

Just kidding....

:blink

[phee]

Used to... not for almost 5 years though.

[dragoth]

I have experienced this oddity a few times in my life. Its as if you completely know the person even though they are a complete stranger, and the other person experiences this oddity in same way at the same time as well twords you. I am a 100% believer in the '6th sense' thing going on.

[SomeDanGuy]

So is this one of the reasons we are called 'rude' americans?  We stare people down in the street.....? :cheerful

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Also, smiling. In Japan anyway, women are not supposed to show their teeth when laughing/smiling.

And no, nothing like this has ever happened to me.

[fever blister]

yeah ive felt that before, its weird its like kismet or something. its nice. i could go for some of that right about now

[DarkVampire]

Someone (your souls recognizing each other) from a past life.

I'm not into eye contact (I consider it offensive) unless it's with someone special or people who are close to me. The eyes are the gateway into your soul. Not too many people are permitted to look into the gateway.

Now if someone goes and gets me mad, you're going to see something you may not like when I stare you down.

[Steven]

Have you ever just seen someone.. and no matter how far away they were... your eyes just locked on theirs.. and you know they are looking back... Not in a sexual attraction way.. I'm not sure I have the correct words.. It's like.. You know you would like that person on some level and they would like you back in kind. There is a... recognition... A mutal something. I don't really know how else to explain it. Am I the only one?

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logic forces me to ask does this eye lock also include the dude nod?

[The Void]

Some say the 'eyes are the windows to the soul' and for many years I thought it was a load of crap. But, when someone looks into my eyes, and vise versa it's almost as if you can see/hear what they think, etc.

If I am speaking to someone, I look at them because to not do so, in business in America especially, it's rude, but it also means you lack power. But that is mostly in the American business world. There are many cultures who also believe if your picture is taken it steals pieces of your soul. Hrm...I wonder what Paris Hilton might think (NOT). *lol*

I have met those who I have this instant connection with when we look at each other and I suppose if one believes in reincarnation this might explain it, in that you knew this person once before in some way.

Or, I have another theory, but it is based on BELIEFS again. If you believe that we are essentially all the same energy then we are all a part of each other period. So, perhaps when someone else is on the same wavelength as you in thought, deed, etc. there is a strange cosmic connection on an energetic level that each of you unconsciously realizes. *shrugs*

Who knows, but it happens, yea.

[Guest MsMaldoror]

It seems to happen for me more often with small children and babies. It's amazing how perceptive they can be.

[Daevion]

deja vu!

[Daevion]

Some say the 'eyes are the windows to the soul' and for many years I thought it was a load of crap.  But, when someone looks into my eyes, and vise versa it's almost as if you can see/hear what they think, etc. 

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So if thats true and I wear sunglasses or tinted glasses than people cannot see into my window......so in a way I shield myself from the so called "mind readers". This works out becuase no one needs to know what I'm thinking.

[Ginevra]

Most people I've ever spoken to consider this type of thing to be a re-encounter of two souls that have met in a past life. While their current physical forms may not recognise each other, IE brain stored memories, life experiences, etc, their souls still do and that is where this feeling stems from.

Dark, I knew exactly what you were trying to say in your initial post.

[Homicidalheathen]

Oh how many times I have thought.....I wish I had gotten his number.....stopped to say hi....talked a little longer..... :tear

[cptdeath]

ever feel someone staring at you but you don't realize it till after you turned and looked at them and seen them?

ever drive by a hounted house and feel a whole house staring at you like that?

you turn and look and you swear it was staring at you?