picture in my mind

I really should try not to blog when I'm depressed or angry. Cause then I start ranting and raving. Not good.

Anyway, borrowed a book from the library on Saturday. A non-fiction one about how people's eyes can say lots of things. A book on eye language, you could say. Finished it! (After Lymond, almost every other book seems far simpler to complete.) Very intriguing.

Apparently... violet eyes do exist! I always thought they were a work of fiction. I've yet to see a real live person with violet eyes. Interestingly, it says that blue eyes are a sign of intelligence. This piece of info is backed up well by Lymond... but not by dumb blue-eyed blondes. Haha. Most of the stuff are hard to believe...

But there are certain parts which are very interesting and plausible! Did you know that your pupils dilate when you see something pleasant, appealing or exciting, and contract when you see something distasteful or unappealing? Hence, the phrases "eyes growing large with love" and "her eyes were pinpoints of hatred". When a person's pupils dilated with affection, the image of the person filling each pupil became, figuratively, the apple of his eye. And apparently, our eyes also dilate when we see other people's eyes dilated. Haha. That's why romantic scenes are always those with dim lights... so that the pupils of the eyes will be dilated... (Of course, we don't actually know this. We just think that dim lighting is romantic.) And when a man sees a woman with dilated eyes, he senses that the woman finds him appealing, and he becomes sexually simulated. Hahaha. How science makes everything unromantic. In other words, pupil dilation is a sign of sexual simulation.

And you know why a drug distilled from the nightshade plant is called 'belladonna'? Belladonna means beautiful lady. What the drug does is make the pupils dilate and thus make the ladies (namely prostitutes, in the past) look more appealing. So, the drug became known as the belladonna, because it made women seem more beautiful. It's all in the eyes.

Oh, and, the book also touches on how we normally look away so as to hide what we really think. Unless, you're a really, really, good actor and can tell straight lies without blinking. And how we normally dont like talking to people wearing shades because we can't see what they think. Interesting eh? We normally never acknowledge the fact that we can see what people think through their eyes. But it's true, isn't it? The eyes are most definitely windows to the soul. And you can normally tell when your close friends or family isn't feeling too good just by looking at their eyes.

This reminds me of Lymond. Oh darn. Why does everything seem to link back to Lymond... But there is one part of the series where this eye language thing is most prominent... Ah. Sigh.