The intense emotions and passion of falling in love usually affect the mind and body, both in the way we express ourselves and even the way we walk.
Love is a very complex emotion that intoxicates us and alters our way of seeing reality. Why do we fall in love and what happens in our body and mind when we feel that way? There are many scientific studies that have tried to shed light on this issue.
In a previous article, psychologist Jonathan García-Allen explained to us the chemical alterations that love produces.
The following list explores these strange effects in which you will find more than one curiosity. Are you ready to know some unknown facts about love and falling in love?
1. Love alters concentration
Several investigations have proven that People who are deeply in love have more difficulty carrying out tasks that require attention and concentration
“When they start a relationship, most people notice that it is more difficult for them to maintain attention on tasks, since they use a large proportion of their cognitive resources to think about their lover,” says researcher Henk van Steenbergen in an article. , from Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrates this. When we are in love, the same neural networks that are linked to psychotropic substances are activated in the brain causing this state of euphoria and loss of notion of time and reality.
“During falling in love, it is possible to feel intense excitement, similar to what is experienced when consuming psychoactive substances,” says Lucy Brown, professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
3. Love makes you less sensitive to pain
“Some of the areas of the brain that are activated by an emotion of intense love are the same regions that medications activate to reduce the sensation of pain,” according to Arthur Aron, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University in New York.
Aron also maintains that The simple act of holding the hand of the person you love activates certain brain areas that mitigate pain
4. Love makes you walk slower
Men are affected in their pace when walking through love. Several investigations detected that men adapt their walking pace to match their partner’s pace a phenomenon that does not occur when a man walks with a friend.
5. The rhythm of the heartbeat matches that of the lover
Several investigations suggest that, in the company of the loved one, heartbeats tend to synchronize between both It seems like a corny metaphor, but it’s real.
6. The voice becomes higher pitched
Women speak in a softer tone of voice when conversing with men they find attractive The same research found evidence that lovers sometimes imitate their lover’s voice as an expression of affection and shared identity.
It has been shown that a person who has been thinking about his lover unconsciously looks away from other attractive people This phenomenon is known as unconscious attention bias .
8. Dilates the pupils
We usually believe that the face is the mirror of the soul, but the truth is that the eyes reflect our state of mind much better. Recent studies suggest that Pupil dilation is associated with highly intense emotional states like falling in love.
9. It makes you braver and more reckless
The stories attest to a vast literature in which male protagonists risk their lives to get their beloved. Certain studies have shown, regarding this issue, thatMen are more willing to take serious risks to their physical integrity in order to conquer their partner (or a potential lover).
