Power of Eye-to-Eye Contact

Have you ever tried to maintain eye contact just for a few minutes? Even if the person is your dear friend or love interest, it’s not easy and you should admit that. I can easily guess how difficult it will be for you to exchange glances with a stranger for a few minutes or seconds in a place you know well, little or nothing about. Sometimes, you make eye contact with a person not out of interest in him or her but just you cannot resist the temptation to see of the person is looking at you or not.

Having said that, there is no way to deny we’re crazy for eye contact even if it does not last beyond a few minutes. Locking glances is a way to convey messages – whether love, hate or any other kind of emotion –and to connect to the soul of the other person. Eyes say everything that we often fail to express or want to hide from others.

A Window to One’s Soul

Your eyes always speak your mind even when you purse your lips tightly. It could express or amplify any emotion of sadness, happiness, anxiety, affection, fear, frustration, doubt, aggression, animosity or intimacy. Whatever, it expresses; eye connection creates a bridge between one person’s psyches to another’s. You see someone and are seen by the person. You look at and size up each other. Even if it lasts for a few seconds, there’s no way to brush it off as nonsense.

The impact of eye contact is very ‘primitive’ from a biological viewpoint and therefore, exceeds the realm of what is called purely “psychological”.

GazeonPhotography- Eyes Draw Us in

Now let us talk about the reel-life celebrities. With an intention to convey emotion as believable as possible and help the audiences connect to the scene as if they are a part of the drama, the actors look into the lenses directly. That gives us a convincing explanation why a subject gazing right into the lens looks compelling.

Just imagine someone’s gaze is fixed on you for a few minutes or more - out of love or pure curiosity. What will you do after realizing that you are on someone’s radar? The first thing you will do is to stare back and enter into the person’s psyche to guess what the person is up to. The same thing happens to us when we see a photograph. We strongly fee that we’re drawn into the photograph. It seems that the invisible wall between us and the image has suddenly vanished.

The most fascinating aspect of a photograph is near or far wherever we are in the room, the eyes of the subject in the image follow us, making us feel that the person is well aware of our presence.

Eyes Peep through Our Souls

Unlike reality, photography has an amazing ability to lock eye contact for ever. This is because the logical side of us know it well the person is actually not around or sitting or standing on the next table staring deep down into our soul by locking glances, no matter even these are fugitive moments. At the same time, the emotional and primitive ‘we’ lying within us react as if the person in the photograph is making his or her way into our psyche through eye connection.