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So the "falling in love" experience is real, but it has a lot to do with chemical reactions in the body and psychological conditioning- you, psychologically, become attracted to people that are like your parents (its your subconscious way of trying to relive your childhood in order to earn love). Love that lasts long-term aka "true love" is built over time, this is beyond physical attraction and can exist without physical attraction. If you can't imagine being with the person because you aren't physically attracted to them- to the point that it turns you off, you are desiring a lustful relationship or not ready to love them yet (the reality is, we can fall in love with anyone). Attraction happens initially it can become infatuation. Then if someone begins to "fall in love" they are falling in love with a concept of a person- not their entire being. They romanticized them. They view them as someone who has what they don't have for themselves, they are what is missing from their lives. Reality can be boring. Most people are too willing to "fall in love" so quickly. Typically due to a lack of boundaries or a lack of willing to look at themselves and how they can achieve becoming everything they feel that they are missing in their lives. Love is complicated, everyone defines it differently. There are also 6 types of different love to be experienced, according to the ancient greeks. Good question!
Good answer.
Thank you :)
It's real. True, there is a chemical reaction that your brain comes to associate with a certain person and memories BUT that happens because of the time you've spent with them, the things you've shared and how it's affected you. Not only that but the desire that comes along with 'new love' is not, itself, love.
Love is mostly the dedicated you and your partner show to each other as you continue your relationship. You could not feel a thing emotionally but still *love* your partner through your choices and they can too.
Building the relationship, spending time together, putting each other first, these are the things that build into long term love, life long love, self-less love. That's love, not the whirlpool of butterflies in your stomach. True love are the choices you make (and don't make) even if it doesn't benefit you. It's more than just a reaction.
Wow, thanks for the MHO :)
u There is a a physiological explanation for every human action and reaction. Fear is no less real because we can explain the biochemical mechanism through which it happens. What does it mean to say that love is "real" versus love is a chemical reaction? However it happens, I feel it and that makes it real.
How would you fall in love without having some neurophysiological process occur inside of you?
Who says the neurophysiological process occurring inside of you is you “falling in love” You can’t be high on this love forever... it goes away... usually after the kids are born and the wife is feeling those again for someone else. Maybe the chemical reaction is just “super attraction” to get two random people to procreate. My point is people fall out of love “no more chemical reaction” and basically just search for that high over and over... why should this chemical reaction even be considered to have anything to do with LOVE. I think love deserves better then some fleeting chemicals Mother Nature bestows on us.
What happens to us on the inside when we are in love?
The same thing that happens to a heroine addict.
It's all physiology but that's okay because we also know that love can last a lifetime for the right people. You know that I am much more of a romantic than a STEM nerd, right?
Ha Ha Ha Yes you are and that is all good! When Tom Cruise jumped up and down on Oprah’s couch I thought oh that’s what love is or maybe he’s just crazy lol
I think that particular boy is CRAZY!
The spaceship above is waiting for him for sure LOL.
There’s actually some great books on the human brain and the differences between male and female brains. As it was described the chemical reaction is for procreation AND bonding. That bonding is the real connection that may or may not last a lifetime. Explaining the differences of the brain between males and females could actually help relationships last longer because to understand our differences would make it easier to understand each other.
Ha Ha Ha Yeah pretty much!
Thanks for MHO!
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Some people say we are chemical reactions living out our chemical synthesis but that is now how I view life - I believe the physical world is only an extension o. f our spirit beings and that our hearts continue to live when our bodies decay and die so for me love is real - its not just a chemical reaction
Can you define chemical reaction for me? To say "just a chemical reaction" makes me think you don't understand the term. Chemical reactions can be insignificant like two elements passing a neutron between the two of them and as significant as a nuclear bomb going off, and even bigger. By your logic the heat given off by the sun is not real since its "just a chemical reaction" and therefore fake.
@devilman666 What I mean is that we have a spiritual body and are more than just physical forms. I don't know if non-human things have spirit bodies like dogs or dolphins but its possible cause sea creatures have been scientifically proven to risk their lives to save humans.
And how does any of this make sense? Do you have a reason for believing this (like evidence) or is it just something you want to believe?
How does risking your life to save a human give you a spiritual, non-physical body that can live forever?
I do believe that spirits have emotions such as love or else our Angels wouldn't be there for us... Or God/Jesus would never love you just because he's a "spirit"
But I just don't get the part where you said you need to save/help someone to be one.
Yes our soul is immoral. Our bodies are not
It's a combination of brain chemicals, hormones, personal beliefs and emotional attachments.
Either way, it's both fucked up and beautiful.
Okay i get that.
Love may be:
1. •Destiny• When 2 people are meant to be together, they will eventually find each other
~~ or ~~
•Spiritual• Something that connects two people for what they really are.
2. •Sexual attraction• which makes the concept of 'love at first sight' an illusion.
~~ or ~~
•Chemical• Just nature tricking people to procreate and guarantee the continuity of our specie.
In my opinion, it's just a mixture of both.
What's to say the chemical reaction is not real?
Yes it is a chemical reaction. People choosing to stay and build on that, that's real love.
thats exactly what i think
Everything is chemical reactions in your brain. Everything you feel is created in your brain.
I’ve been telling my whole family this for years
There is electrical pulses connected to the senses. Which in turn is connected to endorfin releaser.
It's the specific people, the movie you're watching, the dog you're playing with, or the woman sucking your cock that is supplying the stimulus that causes your brain to release those chemicals. Different people, different dog, different woman ---> different stimulus and different chemical reactions.
Your brain is what connects the stimulus to the reaction. Essentially objects mean absolutely nothing on its own. If it was not for your brain, and its chemical reactions, that object would mean nothing to you. It would be like looking at a rock.
I think it both, you get that tingling sensation and your brains explode at the thought of the person. It both real, physically and brain wise
Both. It’s real if it hurts and a reaction by the brain telling us that one person is making us laugh cry and happy based on their actions and how attracted we are to them
What is reality? How is it different than chemicals in the brain?
Can be both, depending on the situation
I’m not sure I fully understand what you’re getting at. If by “real,” you mean something poetic, I would argue that this poetic feeling is the same thing as a chemical process— just looked at in different levels/perspectives. If love is like a machine, describing chemical processes is looking at the gears inside, while the poetic view is like looking on the outside and seeing what the machine as a whole does. Both are equally real, even if one is factual and one is more romanticized.
I think all feelings can be boiled down to chemical processes and actions of the brain, one way or another. Now, I’d disagree in love or whatever feeling being some magical action though. I don’t particularly believe in some impossible-to-quantify or unexplainable feeling, even if currently we lack the knowledge to describe it. Our lack of ability to describe it doesn’t mean the feeling does not exist in our brain as some process.
That being said, it’s pretty apparent that our perception of our feelings is a different perspective than that of a biologist. After all, we don’t hold hands with the opposite gender and mentally note “my oxytocin levels appear to be rising.” Thus, the outside view that we naturally hold is important for describing it to others (and ourselves internally) in a simple manner. We would get overwhelmed by info if we looked at things in purely biological terms, because the processes are so complicated. Our brain would be overloaded.
Conclusion: both are real. They’re just different perspectives. One is a streamlined/simplified view, while the other is a detail/fact oriented biological view.
All I know is that I dated a girl I had a chemical reaction for and she was terrible for me. I also dated someone who was perfect for me but no chemical reaction. Mother nature isn't bright.. she just does what she does... create more humans.
Love starts as a series of chemical reactions; endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin - all of these chemicals are involved in love, all affect our feelings, whether it be happiness or intimacy or loyalty.
I don't think the chemical reaction lasts, though. The chemical reaction serves only to make us copulate; it's meant make us create and care for the next generation, moreso than carong for each other.
Those in long-term love capitalised on the chemical reactions to create shared memories, and interpersonal bonds. There's so much divorce now because so few people put the work in to maintain love; the honeymoon period is a rush of all the aforementioned chemicals, many people crash after the honeymoon period because the reactions cool down and they haven't built the relationship to survive the crash.
It doesn't help that exposure to things like endorphins also builds a resistance in the receptors for it.
Love is a chemical reaction; true love is an action stemming from the reaction.
I mean I get what you're saying in the edit but I reckon it's just the wrong abstraction to have. It's not like one or the other. Everything. Every single thing is just chemicals and electricity whipping through out brains. Everything else is a level on top of that, not too helpful to think of the brain chemicals except where the chemicals specifically differ from standard people and that's the reason their behaviour/thinking's different.
Falling in love is eh. Relationships are hard work from both people, choosing to work together to resolve and get through issues and just stick together. Relationships don't happen, no matter how much good or bad brain chemistry is behind you two deciding to hook up or start dating/talking in the first place.
good points! I mean just because we have these uncontrollable chemical reactions for someone doesn't mean we automatically have to try and make it work somehow. She/He could be bad news... the chemical reaction doesn't take this into consideration. I think many people think because of this chemical reaction they need to do whatever they can to make it work with this person even though most times they just aren't right for each other. That was my emphasis to begin with... is that beginning chemical reaction really love or just a reaction of super attraction?
Definitely. Getting interested in someone, falling in 'love at first sight' or plain just wanting to bang someone the first time you see them is one thing. Deciding to be together with someone and putting time into building and keeping your relationship strong together is a separate thing I reckon.
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It technically is a chemical reaction. But some people believe that love is not a chemical reaction and that it's something else. For me, it could go either way. The chemical reaction include stuff like dopamine. My friend once told me that love is an addictive drug. And this drug can cause marriage, pregnancy, divorce, heartbreak, etc. Love can be anything to anyone. So I keep my mind open and I prefer both sides of it. I like the chemical side of it and the emotion based side of it.
That is a really good answer. Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for asking the question.
The person you "love" is causing chemicals to be released into your bloodstream and brain that enhance your ability to enjoy life. If those enjoyments in life are sexual it'll cause a whole drugstore of hormones to be released into your bloodstream. Especially in the early infatuation stage, your perception will be that you "love" this person, but it is caused by their close proximity to you and your interpretation of how it feels. There is no "love" that floats through the room like perfume and lands on you. "Love" is only the satisfaction that comes from being around that person and how they make you feel.
You mean the person you attracted too? If you are in close proximity to a serial killer and have a chemical reaction for that person I am sure it's not LOVE and more of an infatuation and attraction. Love is developed over time through many different factors.
You can fall in love with a serial killer as easily as a non-serial killer. If you know the person is a serial killer but your body is still releasing those chemicals it's still gonna be perceived as "love".
I guess if you are dumb enough to call what is happening "this chemical release" as love. Absolutely. LOL.
Explains a lot about why certain people do certain things that most "normal" people would never do.
Like get married after 3 days of dating someone? Yes I am with you!
Men and women are born to "procreate". Finding the right "partner" to "mate" is something that leads to the next generation aka continuation of genealogy. While the idea of companionship probably makes the concept of love more complex and beautiful, I think like other species, humans are all about continuation of their race but in a more civilized way (you can't sleep w tons of people because I called you animalistic)
We know sex is a biological need. Chemical reactions strengthen the bonds. I'm not trying to imply there's nothing called love and all that crap.
I'm just saying chemical reactions occur in love and that's why its called "chemistry".
The only way to answer this is to look at the evidence, if any... and what we are able to test and what we can't
so I ask --> can we scientifically test for a conscious mind, feelings?, can we test for any of these things. Currently we cannot
therefore logic would dictate that we cannot disprove the proposition that love is real and hence that would make it a possibility indeed
as for what I think --> I think we have a soul and a conscious mind. Which is independent from our physical body. So I think its real and we experience that realness by our mind and bodies through chemical reactions ya
Yeah but who are you or anybody to NAME that chemical reaction "falling in love" ? You have great feelings if your hooked on Heroine but we don't call that "falling in love with heroine" we call that an addiction. My question is more who is to say that the chemical reaction that is happening is "LOVE"? Why not attraction? Why not addiction to another human?
Sure, I understand what you are saying
but thats why I would refer back to the evidence we have --> we know procreating is one of natures basic set of tools it uses to entice us to multiply, I would assume that nature wants us to feel attraction for someone also to entice us to have sex
I think the only way to separate the two is to understand that we currently are trying to understand what the a 'mind' actually is, but we can't actually test for it. so its a bit of a strange
now the reason we don't equate a drug addict to love being an addiction/habit/or simply a chemical reaction is because its deep rooted into our DNA, something that has been happening since our earliest recordings of man kind, of course the same can't be said about a drug addict
also id say it starts from religious scriptures that gives us a moral objectiveness which we otherwise wouldn't have
Good points! Mother nature hits us with these "butterflies" or uncontrollable feelings "chemical reaction" so that people create more humans. Mother nature however is not bright. If you are married and committed.. mother nature will still throw those "chemical reactions" at you for others and of course this is where cheating comes in... divorce... etc. It could be said that the chemical reaction that is occurring is "super attraction" instead of "falling in love" in the end you really need to fall in love with someone who has your same values, standards, etc. You can't do that if you are basing it on "chemical reactions" alone.
It's all brain chemistry. This is especially apparent when you look at what some men sacrifice to be with less than mediocre women.
It's weird, I'm sure all men can feel it... how being in the presence of a woman or just talking to one makes your brain feel so much better, it feels like a weight is off your shoulders and you levitate instead of walk.
Then you ask, "okay, but how does she actually improve my life, except for sex," and there is no answer. You're closer to your bros, your family has your back, and all she has to contribute is her presence.
I repeat, it is all brain chemistry. Women hypnotize us unintentionally, we are their slaves in a way.
Love raises strong positive emotional and mental state. On the other hand having lust consists of releasing chemicals that consists of testosterone and estrogen. Then you need to understand they’re different types of love such as impersonal love and interpersonal love.
Impersonal love means you love an object or activities while interpersonal love means you’re in love with a human being. In conclusion love has different meanings but it all has a connection too passion with someone or something.
Sexual attraction is the biological part. Actually liking a person is something else. I believe it's called infatuation when younger people or really thirsty people mistake their attraction with love... call it lust of it's own sort I guess.
People that lack much experience fucking what they want to fuck tend to make that mistake. A geezer like me that's fucked his way through life doesn't make that mistake though. I know quite well that the chick on my arm is probably a person I disapprove of, I just haven't found out why yet... but... I'll dick her down since she's 10 years younger and has dat azz still poppin.
Knaw what I'm saying :-/
This is all so nihilistic.
Yes love is a chemical in the brain.
No it does not detract from the fact that love is real.
EVERYTHING we feel is a chemical, period. Everything we feel is based on the logical reality that we live in. Feelings of any kind are not mystical, they are not magical, they are not bestowed upon us from some supernatural entity to facilitate our lives.
No, our feelings are biologically driven and created by evolution.
Love is real, just because you understand that love is part of the mechanical reality we live in should not make you feel bad.
This is the only reality there is. It is what it is, we live here, we experience everything here, we feel and learn and whatever else we do in this physical reality. Just because it’s possible to understand the mechanical workings of it all should not make you feel like it’s fake.
It's both. Everything you feel is a chemical reaction in your brain, but falling in love also makes a chemical reaction in the others brain due to pheromones and or plain psychological effects. Of course that it is hard to see or believe in these chemical reactions since there are behind our conciousnes, they are what we are and that's exactly what makes love seem magical. For all practical purposes love can be considered magical for us, the ones who feel it, since it's outside what the real world made, it was made by us.
Love is real, but there is an initial chemical element that's usually involved. That SUDDEN surge of emotion is the chemical element. But longterm deep love is formed. In my mind there's no such thing as love at first sight, but there is a potential to create an environment for real love to form quickly. The chemical attraction allows for a real love bond to form.
I think of when I got my dog for the first time. When I had chosen which puppy I wanted I felt INSTANT love, but that was the chemical aspect of joy I felt. Carried those feelings for months and months, then when those chemicals faded I still had that true bond of love with my dog.
Love is a verb.
Infatuation is that lovely set of chemicals you have, but I believe that loving someone is a choice you make every day. You make it because you recognize their value to you and you understand that a relationship doesn't run on its own, there is no magic juice in your brain making it go, you have to do the maintenance to keep things alive. Love doesn't always feel like an emotional state of bless, and the idea that it should is harmful.
Love is real. Falling in love is nothing but just chemicals, in fact, you can actually feel those chemicals. You can't feel love really. You just know when you are committing yourself into that person.
Your brain produces Oxytocin when you’re in love whatever came first your conscious decision to love that person or the chemical induced it I think it was your decision making on their fitness as a mate first and the bonding chemicals second. If you fall out of love your brain chemistry changes but those chemicals are the result of and not the cause.
For me I feel it in my heart, so I’m apt to say falling in love is real. I’m sure to some extent it’s physiological, but not a brain kind of physiology at first? If that makes sense. I’ve loved men, but not fell in love with them. My brain would tell me it’s a good thing, but if my heart didn’t feel it, then I left the relationship! I’m an emotional person and I have to emotionally connect with my heart to fall in love or I dont make a go of it! my way maybe wrong, but I don’t like hurting people’s feelings or playing games, trying to make myself feel something I don’t. It’s better for me if I don’t have some sort of heart feeling on the first few dates I don’t drag it on! Just my opinion! Right or wrong? I don’t know and I don’t care. I just do what I feel I would want done to me—- just be upfront and honest!!!
I'd say both. The chemical reaction is merely the scientific explanation behind the concept and doesn't make it any more or less real.
Interesting perspective!
I don't understand the question. How is a chemical reaction not real?
It's not the chemical reaction that isn't real it's why we choose to call it Falling in love? If you get hooked on a drug are you falling in love with that drug? No we call that an addiction.
Love can definitely be considered a type of addiction. It has all its symptoms - obsessiveness and compulsion, irrational behavior and irrational decisions, neglect of other important things in life, hypersensitivity, and in case of loss or unreciprocated love even depression and aggressive reactions and such.
I recommend reading "Love Sick" by Frank Tallis.
Cool I will check it out!
I was high a few times in my life that is for sure lol
chemical reaction obviously. but can we please not have Bill Nye the Science Guy ruin love for us? imagine this on your wedding day: honey, due to the chemical reactions in my brain, i love you from the bottom of my heart. until i see a finer chick and the chemical reactions change.
LOL I know right
Everything is a chemical reaction in the brain. Happiness, pain, fear, and yes, even love. So love is both! Both real and the product of a chemical reactions. Emotions don’t pop up randomly out of nothing, but they are still real, and it is appropriate to refer to them as feeling something, and not merely as a brain reaction.
agree to disagree.
For the sake of argument let's say that falling in love is nothing but a chemical reaction in the brain. Aren't chemical reactions real? I'm of the belief that we're more than the sum of our parts and that while falling in love has a biochemical substrate that it exists as something above and beyond that.
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Technically everything is a chemical reaction (which is why some people argue we don't control any aspect of ourselves). But that doesn't remove the significance of love. Love is still a beautiful thing, it helps create children (although that's not the only way), establishes commitment, and creates a relationship that benefits both parties involved normally. Just because it is a chemical reaction doesn't mean we should dismiss its significance!
In traditional type relationships the man is expected to give unconditional love. The woman can jump ship anytime she FEELS he is not making his whole life about her feeling safe. I mean modern traditional relationships. Guys see this and no longer see the value in ‘falling in love’. “Love” is a label people use to manipulate others & themselves.
Most people I’ve dealt with can’t even define it yet they will ask, ‘do you love me?’
All Christians!!; Think about this; if love wasn't real and only/just a chemical. How would Jesus/God love you?
Maybe there's also a chemical too while physical, but if spirits had no emotions, then Christianity wouldn't make sense cuz Jesus wouldn't love you then. Am I right?
What kind of question is this? Why can't it be both? A chemical reaction in the brain is a real thing, we've seen many chemical reactions in the brain, so chemical reactions in the brain are real. Basically, I want to know why you think love being a chemical reaction makes it less real.
Did you know walking is a chemical reaction that occurs in the brain? Waking up? Drinking water? What exactly would make something possible in a human without it being a chemical reaction? I mean - everything is one, it's simply not possible for there to be an emotion or feeling without a chemical reaction accompanying it.
Falling in love is chemical. Give it time and maybe you find you’re compatible for the long run.
There’s falling in love and being in love. Real devotion begins once you realize that being in love comes with responsibility.
Falling in love goes away quickly if not in love.
Simple
Just chemical reactions... That why it can destroy or grow.
How is it "being a chemical reaction" make it less real? I mean one, its not, its chemicals and neural networks, but even then, how does that make it less real? I mean, "I" am nothing more then a mass of "particles"(tiny little forces) and even then most of my particles are filled with nothing. Does that mean I am not real? If that is the case then nothing is real. So, its real regardless of how it comes about.
There is a lot of emphasis on the feeling of falling in love. But love is not a feeling. Love has feelings, but is deeper than feelings, and more substantial than feelings. If love were a feeling, every time you got real angry with the one you love, you would stop loving them. Feelings ebb and flow, love does not. Love is the understanding and desire to do what is best for the person you love, and to put them first, before yourself, when needed, or even commonly.
Well our bodies and all the chemicles in it are made of molecules that exist in the real world so yes its real. There us a genuine trajectory and mechanics to how things function.
The chemical reaction is not random and arbitrary, but in keeping with the cosmos and an evolutionary imperative.
You lost me at Cosmos LOL.
Falling in love is like taking oxy's for a temporary amount of time. Then the supplier cuts you off, entirely. Now you either go into relapse unless you find oxy's (love) somewhere else. 😏 The brain release this drug in the brain while "in love". Drugs are no good, just like love. Lol
Who says it's "love?" Maybe it's an addiction to that person like sugar.
This is true. The addiction to the idea of love.
What do you mean by "real"? Human beings ultimately are ruled by the mechanics of our biology. If the chemical reaction happens, that's how we perceive love.
Do you mean in the sense of the "soul" feeling it? That's up to interpretation.
If the chemical reaction happens with a serial killer should we not question that perception? It's not binary. The chemical reaction is just natures way of pushing us into someone else to procreate... doesn't mean it's LOVE.
Real love I believe is a willingness to prioritize another’s well-being or happiness above your own. A choice to commit to helping, respecting, and caring for another, such as in marriage or when having a child. When you feel these things you are in love. I don't think the fleeting " chemical reaction" in the brain has anything to do with that since it's random. So as I said, when the chemical reaction happens that's simply attraction.. not until you have felt what I have said above is it real love. Everyone has their own opinion.. this is mine you have yours and i respect it!
I don't think it is specifically either, I think "love" is something to wide spread to pinpoint exactly as to what causes it. It has been. Proven that when you have feelings for someone you body and mind have a specific reaction to that person but there is also the chance that you can force yourself to have feelings for said person. It's a complicated answer but that's what I think.
It can be real and chemical reaction in the same time! What kinda choices are these, and what kinda votes.
Love is an addiction to dopamine combined with desires of passion and sex and connection.
Folks! Science is real! And love is real in the same time. No matter what spiritual meanings it has. Its physical explanation is true.
It's real, but we often forget that there are many different types of love. And most of them grow over time. Some are strong, some are fragile. The lust type is the most fragile and the most likely to just be chemistry, and too many people focus too much on lust. Deeper forms of love will make your whole life better, lust just makes one night better. It is junk food love.
And some other times, it can be either one because for instance, it can be real, no problem but come to think of the chemical reactions, Yes !
There re some fantastic elements that can make the chemicals in your brain to misbehave like serious cash at hand and other valuable commodities.
Shit happens once in a while anyway.
Harsh. I wanna say a chemical reaction that is released in the brain for the reason of reproduction and the psychological aspect of touch. Its something the human body strives for. You know an untouched child goes insane or can die? Its sad. Although the feeling can be very real. I would say its a mix.
It's a little bit of both. The chemical reaction does affect your brain and certain things are blocked out that you don't notice and could be things you don't like. (Which I've noticed from sex specifically (I do have a story))
You can also easily love someone for who they are. It's like a part of who you are, and it just feels right. Something you can't explain. It's like being home.
Every since we were infants in the womb we were programed inside our brain for the need of attachment. So in real life it isn't any different, we tend to lean toward some type of bond with others. But that being said there is such a thing as a heavier bond that we have labeled as Love. It is a more robust feeling and is persuaded by an attraction that tugs on the heart strings. Instead of an acquaintance the feeling gets stronger and stronger. This is Love.
This is an existential question. If we're going down that path, is happiness real, or simply the consequence of dopamine? Is pain real, or only in the mind? Are colours real, or simply the way the brain uniquely interprets wavelengths of photons hitting light sensitive proteins in the retina? Are you real, or simply an always changing blob of atoms that thinks it can think?
It's both. You can refer back to MyTake on brain chemistry and its relation as to how we feel.
The 4 Chemicals That Let YOU be HAPPY! ↗
Is physiological and mental, the result of a perfect storm. Without any one of those components, it wouldn't be what we know it as.
For me love is trusting, having faith, and hope in others, is to consider yourself and at the same be conscious that everyone needs to be acknowledged for who they are and what they can do, is to act on it and be capable of not only giving that positive vibe but to receive it and create a feedback.
Its very hard to say because some people say oh love at 1st sight Argument can be in play, And then others say "O it's a chemical brain feeling." It's just all how you wanna look at it There are a lot of arguments to both sides of whether it's a phone in love at 1st sight or brain chemical.
Well it's a chemical reaction for sure but is that reaction love? Or is it a hyper sensitive over attraction you have for the person? My thing is isn't LOVE more then a simple reaction in the brain?
I believe it is a chemical reaction. If someone lost a memory for head trauma and somehow lost the memory when he fell in love with his s. o, he won't feel the same about her. Like he knows she's familiar and someone who is close to him, care for him but he won't remembering loving her until he remembers when exactly did he fall for her.
Well firstly, a chemical reaction IS real! You can’t separate those two. I think you’re confusing lust with love here. Love that causes those chemicals changes doesn’t just go away. It depends on many other factors. The whole point of being a living sentient being means that we react to the environment around us, if we didn’t we’d be dead. Love is just one part of that in life that seeks to meet our needs and serve a greater purpose.
Some are the real deal of love. No matter how much you actually want to deny this person you can't shake off living without them. Even after a full on year of holding back how I feel, this is the man I'm meant for. Just one day, when we are both ready, I will be able to let him know.
It's a real chemical reaction.. because you can fall in love with almost anyone who you have attraction for... it's not exclusively to "the one!" This is why I never believe in that he's the one, and all this "soulmate" crap! Because anyone that you have an attraction for and really get to know.. if you have the same interests, you can "fall in love!"
You don't get neuroscience. What ELSE would falling in love be? ALL emotions are neurochemistry, NO EXCEPTIONS AT ALL!
How is that hard to understand?
So what if they are? After all, you're not some superstitious little primitive who can't handle a little truth, right?
When people don't understand things, their reaction may try to simplify things for themselves by thinking that there is a deeper meaning that no one can really understand; it's no different to how people used to (and still) think that anything they do not understand has something to do with gods or demons. When you point out the facts to them, they may act indignant and say that you shouldn't act like you know everything but deep inside, a part of them believes the facts and they are afraid of having their beautiful illusions broken. Others may simply like the idea of things being shrouded in mystery.
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