THIS Is The Real Reason Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss

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A study that was tailored together by Psychologists Sandra Murphy and Polly Dalton compiled evidence that involves human psychology of sensory perception that explains why people keep their eyes closed in order to avoid eye contact while they are kissing one another.

Their research that was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance describe in detail as to why it’s nearly impossible for us to kiss with our eyes open.

The real reason is because if we were to keep our eyes open during the time we were kissing someone we have feelings for, it would distract us from being able to experience all of those butterflies and rainbows we feel deep within our stomach.

What it boils down to is that you do not have the same kind of personal experience or depth than you would with your eyes closed.

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You don’t feel as sense of pleasure of stimulation that satisfies you the same way when you have your eyes closed and only use your body language to guide each other during the kiss.

It’s like if you were multitasking thinking about how amazing this person looks and feels, compared to feeling how amazing they feel as well as the way they are making you feel deep inside.

Visually being distracted while kissing would completely alter our way of kissing entirely.

Both Murphy and Dalton made the discovery that with the multiple sensations that are being placed on the forefront, would only drown out any of the other sense that aren’t being targeted by this stimulation.