Do you believe in love at first sight?

[Mr Rayon]

Are there any explanations for this phenomena?

[ajb]

Yes, beer-goggles. (and Yes, I did meet my wife in a pub! )

[pioneer]

It has to do with personality firmware that have been called archetypes. Just as fear might animate the body for a fight/flight reaction, which can react in realtime to the threat, love at first site is sort of a sensory command line that will active the archetype of love. Much of the dynamics of the archetype of love is projection, where the firmware will shine onto the beloved to give him/her a subjective overlay effect; he/she is so perfect.

 

As an analogy, looking at a good work of art will induce subjectivity. This does not come from the art, but from within to get an overlay effect. The beloved will trigger the archetype which will induce subjectivity, but unlike art which may induce a single reaction, the archetype of love has many different colors, which can induce a wide range of reactions until the composite effect feels like he/she is everything to me.

 

But just as the love at first site command line can turn on the archetype, sometime a single command line can shut it off. The archetypes can also be on a timer. People who say they fell out of love, simply mean the timer ended. That is when it takes work to reanimate love. Those who are lazy may look around for the quickie command line from a stranger. But often the timer is too short to go through the entire spectrum.

Edited November 27, 2010 by pioneer

[TonyMcC]

Have you noticed how many couples have very similar facial features? Perhaps some men chose a partner who reminds them of their mother? Perhaps some men are over fond of their own image in a mirror? Either of these could be a cause of instant attraction.

Edited November 27, 2010 by TonyMcC

[Marat]

The 'selfish gene' hypothesis essentially views people as mere gene recepticals whose sole purpose is to ensure that the genes are propagated. Our selfish genes push us into mating to ensure their surival for another generation, and they also drive us to mate with people who phenotypically express the same characteristics as our own genes do, thus helping to ensure that our genes will not be phenotypically submerged by some opposing, dominant gene in a mate who does not look like us.

 

Unfortunately, this seems to work only 'at first sight,' since after you've locked eyes from across the room with a perfect 10, after initial introductions it all too often turns out that what looks like a perfect 10 firmly believes that the Earth is hollow and its interior is populated by an alien race of people, that Sarah Palin should be President, and that Plato is famous for having invented the plate.

[JohnB]

Do you believe in love at first sight?

 

How could I not? For I have seen the Lamborghini.

[dragonstar57]

How could I not? For I have seen the Lamborghini.

the mustang proves that love at first site exits.