i have a question about emotions.

[breadisfunny]

i told someone i thought i was in love today and got this as a response.....what do people mean when you ask what if feels like to be in love and they answer with "when your in love you'll know" or "you'll figure it out" since love is a biological process that injects certain chemicals into your body when in love why do people always give this vague response? surely they can spot the signs of being in love since it must have signs or symptoms as all biological processes do.

i ask cause i met this girl today and the minute i looked upon her face.....it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. like i was finally happy.
this naturally both amazed and scared me and i'm still not sure what to think of it. what do you guys think?

[Deleted]

Haven't you watched Interstellar?

[breadisfunny]

no i can't say i have. i mostly just watch historical documentaries and the occasional action movie.

[glo]

Love isn't an actual thing or "biological process". It's just a word that's used when people develop an emotional dependence and physical attraction that's stronger than shorter flings and the like.

[breadisfunny]

thats what they taught us in school that love is a chemical biological process that releases chemicals to the brain...

[Nadiru]

Short answer: it's a metaphysical and philosophical problem.

[Kurioxan]

To be honest, this entire thing is dumbfounding me.

While everything is made up from mechanistic reactions, there is more than the sum of the parts to it.
And its impossible to "explain" what "love" is, you need to feel it to understand it.

Its like reading about driving a car over and over and over again, sure you know have a notion what it is, but you have no real understanding until you do drive a car.
Also it affects people differently, and sometimes we confused different things, it takes time to learn, to understand and experience and be able to differentiate between them.

[Deleted]

i told someone i thought i was in love today and got this as a response.....what do people mean when you ask what if feels like to be in love and they answer with "when your in love you'll know" or "you'll figure it out" since love is a biological process that injects certain chemicals into your body when in love why do people always give this vague response? surely they can spot the signs of being in love since it must have signs or symptoms as all biological processes do.

i ask cause i met this girl today and the minute i looked upon her face.....it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. like i was finally happy.
this naturally both amazed and scared me and i'm still not sure what to think of it. what do you guys think?

Sounds pretty gay to me.

[Mayhem]

i told someone i thought i was in love today and got this as a response.....what do people mean when you ask what if feels like to be in love and they answer with "when your in love you'll know" or "you'll figure it out" since love is a biological process that injects certain chemicals into your body when in love why do people always give this vague response? surely they can spot the signs of being in love since it must have signs or symptoms as all biological processes do.

i ask cause i met this girl today and the minute i looked upon her face.....it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. like i was finally happy.
this naturally both amazed and scared me and i'm still not sure what to think of it. what do you guys think?

hm

Probably just the flu.

You´ll get over it and be up and running in a few days.

[Deleted]

i ask cause i met this girl today and the minute i looked upon her face.....it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. like i was finally happy.

Never got this. Everytime I develop a crush on somebody I feel unhappy since she's not with me. I'm only happy the moment I know for sure she likes me. But just becoming happy by looking at her? That just puzzles me.

Sounds pretty gay to me.

I like your responses but I never understood how you're not permabanned at this point.

[Mayhem]

Say what you want about 'love' being only a chemical response, but I think there's more to it. Particularly with mothers and their children.

People are becoming too much like programmed robots.

YAY let´s start the discussion with sexism. This´ll be fun.

[Deleted]

I guess it's probably something caused by chemicals, but I think there's more to it than that. If it was only chemicals, surely you could make someone fall in love with the right injection, and I don't believe that's possible?

[Mayhem]

Sexism? Huh?

Particularly with mothers and their children.

Fathers can´t have that.

[Cybran]

Say what you want about 'love' being only a chemical response, but I think there's more to it. Particularly with mothers and their children.

Mother's brains are being tricked to "love" their brood by Oxytocin.

[Deleted]

If you looked at a girl and got all warm and fuzzy inside... Chances are you're just horny.

[Noomz]

I guess it's probably something caused by chemicals, but I think there's more to it than that. If it was only chemicals, surely you could make someone fall in love with the right injection, and I don't believe that's possible?

You probably can, it's just not ethical, so it's not been tried.

[IntellectuallyChallenged]

"Love" has nothing to do with chemicals and everything to do with your soul. That's my opinion. I just prefer not to just "science away" something as important as love. Yes, I am fully aware that the brain releases chemicals that blah blah blah.... STFU! I truly and honestly am fascinated by those things but some things are better left unsaid. Like most of the things I say on these forums.

[Deleted]

I am not a biologist so I am not going to go on about chemicals and the stages of attractions and blah blah blah but to put it simply, I don't think you can "fall in love" without having an emotional connection with someone, looking at someone and "knowing they are the one" just sounds like you find them physically attractive, but all that could vanish if you talk to them and they turn out to be either a complete arsehole or dumber than a bag of potatoes.

I have had crushes on people, spoke to them and just talking to them killed it for me, I realised we were very different people and I wasn't interested in them ever again.

If this was someone who you had known for quite a long time and were already close friends then you could fall in love, but I can't see someone just falling in love at first sight, in my opinion that is only something that happens in cheesy movies.

[Rukh]

"Love" has nothing to do with chemicals and everything to do with your soul. That's my opinion. I just prefer not to just "science away" something as important as love. Yes, I am fully aware that the brain releases chemicals that blah blah blah.... STFU! I truly and honestly am fascinated by those things but some things are better left unsaid. Like most of the things I say on these forums.

I don't believe in lying to myself because I want something to be super special. If a thing is, it is. What I want it to be doesn't change that.

[Sickjen]

Fathers can´t have that.

Well i don't think that was made to be sexist rather an old saying. I'm sure it varies from situation from situation.