Five Surprising Scientific Evidences when Someone in Love

VIVA – Falling in love is an absolute feeling. Interest, trust, and comfortable feelings can make someone looks happy. Scientists have discovered exactly what it means to 'fall in love.

They noticed that the brains of people in love looked very different from those of only lust and also unlike the brains of someone in a committed, long-term relationship.

Studies led by Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and one of the foremost experts on the biological basis of love, she has revealed that the phase of falling in love causes the brain to experience a unique and well-defined period.

Well, here’s surprising scientific evidence of someone who is in love.

When in love, people start to think that their lover is unique. The belief is coupled with an inability to feel romantic passion for another person.

According to a 2017 article in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, monogamy is the result of increased levels of central dopamine in the brain.

2. Always Look Good and Positive

People who are truly in love tend to focus on the positive qualities of their lover while ignoring the negative traits. According to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, relationships are usually more successful when partners are idealized.

Those in love also focus on trivial events and objects that remind a loved one, daydreaming about precious moments and little memories.

3. Emotional Instability

The feeling of falling often causes emotional and physiological instability. Someone who is in love will face feelings of joy, increased energy, difficulty sleeping, heart palpitations, anxiety, panic, and feelings of hopelessness.

According to a 2017 article in the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, these mood swings parallel the behavior of drug addicts. When those in love are shown photos of their loved ones, it triggers the same part of the brain that activates when a drug user is addicted.

People in love report that they spend an average of more than 85 percent of their waking time thinking about the object of their love.

According to a 2012 study published in the Journal of Psychophysiology, men who are in love have lower serotonin levels than men who are not, the opposite is true for women. Men and women in love were found to think about their loved ones for about 65 percent of the time they were awake.

Couples are often imagining the future is also a sign that someone is in love. According to an article by Harvard University, when serotonin levels begin to return to normal, the hormone oxytocin in the body increases.

A neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Lucy Brown says this drive to be with others is like our drive to water and other things we need to survive.

"I consider romantic love to be part of the human reproductive strategy. It helps us form a pair bond, which helps us survive. We are built to experience the magic of love and are pushed in other directions," she says.