Last update: 05 September, 2017
When Paulo Coelho said there is no love in peace. He is always accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and deep sadness, he has forgotten the further consequences of this feeling. There are, in fact, some nice side effects of falling in love, as we will see in today's article.
The intense emotions and passion felt during falling in love also cause behavioral and physical changes.
Side effects of falling in love
Love is a complex emotion. She is able to alter the way we see reality. Being in love is so powerful. For this reason, many scientific studies have focused on studying the changes that occur in the brain and in the human body in general during the falling in love phase. As we can see, some of these changes are very peculiar, weird and even funny.
Alteration of concentration
The first of the side effects of falling in love we are talking about was found by Henk van Steenbergen, of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
According to this scholar, people who are deeply in love have serious problems completing tasks that require concentration and attention. This effect is particularly noticeable at the beginning of the relationship, when a large part of the cognitive resources are used to think about the lover.
It makes you totally euphoric
According to Lucy Brown, a neurologist at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, as has been shown by the data obtained through MRI scans, when we are in love, we are also particularly exalted.
In brain produces an effect similar to that caused by the consumption of psychotropic substances, since our neural networks understand falling in love in this way. The state of exaltation is such that we can even lose the conception of reality and time.
You are less sensitive to pain
Psychologist Arthur Aron of the University of Stony Brook in New York states that many areas of the brain are activated in the presence of intense love. Some of these brain regions are the same ones that are activated when you take medicines intended to reduce the sensation of pain.
Sometimes it is enough to take your loved one by the hand to achieve this effect. Interesting, right?
We walk more slowly
Let's now move on to one of the nicest side effects of falling in love and which affects men above all. Maybe they are so happy that they don't want time to pass?
The research carried out, however, shows us that the truth is much more prosaic. This is simply due to the fact that men adapt their gait to that of their beloved when they walk together.
"Absence and time are nothing when you love"
-Alfred de Musset-
The heartbeats synchronize
This side effect is truly romantic. According to several scientific studies, the heartbeats of the two lovers tend to synchronize when they are together.
Is it mushy or really cool? Your vision of this effect may depend on your degree of falling in love, isn't it?
The voice sharpens
Many people feel rejuvenated when they fall in love. Could this be why their voices become more acute? Actually no. The answer, according to the studies carried out, is that yes they tend to imitate their partner's voice as a sign of affection, respect and shared identity.
Love makes you blind
Attention! We don't stop seeing reality no matter how blind love is.
A person who thinks a lot about the object of his love unknowingly looks away from other people who are considered attractive. There is also a name for this phenomenon: unconscious attention bias.
Dilated pupils
Even science agrees that when we are in love our pupils seem more dilated. This phenomenon is associated with the emotional state we live, of enormous intensity. And so in the early stages of a relationship; the eyes look like the mirror of the soul, as is usually said.
You become more courageous ... and imprudent
Love allows us to have blind faith in the other person. According to scholars, the men in particular show a great predisposition to take risks in order to conquer and surprise their (potential) mate.
“Love has no reasoning, and neither does the lack of love. They are both miracles "
–Eugene O’ Neill-
Time you know many curious and nice side effects of falling in love. If you are in love, enjoy this moment; if not, discover the changes that this state of mind could produce in you.
