- Truth or lie,
if their pupils are dilated
their totally into you.
(light playful music)
- How many times have we heard
that if someone is looking at you
and their pupils are dilated
that they are really into you.
Pupil dilation happens for reasons
that are generally out of our control.
Not always, but we'll talk
about that in a second.
Our pupils dilate to let light in,
and they also dilate as
an involuntary reflex,
when we are interested in
something when we value
what we're looking at.
So it could be true that if
someone is looking at you
with dilated pupils,
that they value you that
their interested in you.
However, they are sometimes
ways that your pupils will
dilate for other reasons than that.
So you can put eyeliner on to
make your pupils look bigger,
cup of coffee sometimes does the trick.
- The caffeine it will
cause pupil dilation,
if you take flu medication
some of them will contain
an ingredient that will
cause pupil dilation,
there's some eyedrops that
will cause pupil dilation,
oh, and so women back in the day,
would often put an essence of belladonna.
- Right.
- Beautiful lady, in their
eyes and the digitalis
in that would cause
involuntary pupil dilation.
Oh, if you've got a very dark limbic ring,
- Right.
- In the iris of your eye, that's the ring
you know outside the
color part of your eye.
If that's very dark,
that will cause the pupils to look bigger.
Therefore people with a dark limbic ring,
may look more attractive than someone
who doesn't have that dark ring.
- And I think that's an
interesting point as well,
this idea that the belladonna
and having the big pupils,
traditionally has been
seen as an attractive look.
I suppose because,
- Well because,
- We think it's--
- Yeah.
- We think that someone
is that's looking at us,
they value us, they like
us so we're more attracted.
- But, you're attractive if
it looks like you value me.
I think your great if it
looks like you value me.
- Its a bit of a chicken
and egg conversation
(laughs) really, isn't it.
- Yeah, yeah exactly
- But there's also ways that
you can hide your pupils.
Maybe you do like somebody
that you're looking at
and you don't wanna be obvious about it.
- Yeah.
- So you put sunglasses on.
- The legendary Jade Sellers of China
would put on dark glasses,
so that you won't be able
to see their pupils dilate
as they looked at your Jade,
and it was a really valuable piece
and cause they'd be
able to pay less for it.
So the Legend goes.
Also of course Poker players are legendary
for wearing dark glasses,
so you won't be able to
see when their looking
at that royal flush.
- So the key point here is,
if their pupils are dilated
it doesn't a hundred percent
mean that their into you.
It might mean they are interested though,
it could mean that they
see you as valuable,
or it could mean that they
just put some eyedrops in.
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