I can't look into peoples eyes

I can't. I have resently discovered/noticed this.

whenever someone talks to me, im just, i dont know, I'm going to go with the word afraid. I'm afraid to look in their eyes.

I always look at their eyebrows or their nose or even their mouth, but i just cant look into their eyes.


Its really quite strange...

 

It's not that hard to do jst look at their eyes, but not too much.

 

I used to be exactly like that, i was shy.

Now I can look until the other person looks away

 

teach yourself to, it's a valuable skill

 

I can't either. It creeps me out. Unless I completely trust someone, I can't look them in the eye. I discovered the other night, I totally trust one of the city cops, though, because he gave one of the county cops a ride to the house when they were giving us shit and he knows us, so he came to check out what was going on and I looked him straight in the eyes and pleaded that he stay with us until it was all over. It was the first time I've looked into someone's eyes who I wasn't close to.

 

I have hard time looking at people when I talk to them much less in their eyes. I am working on it though because obviously its a great communication skill. So I just try to force myself to and it works

 

i just do it radonmly, i never do it for longer than like 10sec tho, alot of the time lmao ppl i talk to are similar, so both r looking @ each others eyes, and then both look away 10sec later at the same time. it gets quete funny in my head- i laugh with my brain cells its jokes. no im not on crack

 

eye contact is way weird. if someone makes unbroken eye contact with me for too long, they start coming off as too aggresive or confrontational. it is kind of a battle of wills, and the longer you look into someones eyes, the closer you are to seeing through them.

 

Eye contact is important. I dont like it at all sometimes but other times the best way to get your point across is to look them in the eye. When someone is telling me something that happenend during there day sometimes it is very hard to believe anything that they are saying when they are scanning the room. But if they look me in the eye i take it much more seriously. Some people scan the room to get ideas to make there story more great. Others look you in the eye and tell you the real. Eye contact can tell alot about a person.

Iv been told if someone tells you a story while there looking down, there lying. Looking up, thinking of ideas. In the eye, truth.

 

Looking into a person's eyes during a conversation for too long starts to really bug me out cause I start to think they can read my mind and blah blah..... bugged out.

Oh and that looking around means looking for ideas thing I believe... I can't lie worth shit but whenever I have tried I've noticed my eyes do that.... hence me not being able to lie worth shit.

 

if you get like that, my advice would be to repeat the lie in your head like a mantra until you're able to actually believe it for the duration of the conversation.

 

You know, I used to actually be good at that once upon a time.... then that talent faded.... Ehhh, maybe I just should not lie.

 

I had a psychological and they said that not looking in peoples eyes is a sign of mild depression or low self esteem. just saying cus thats what they told me.

 

I make sure to establish my dominating status over another person by constantly staring them down.

It works great... even with professors and other authority figures.

 

I look at peoples eyes when talking to them, it helps you figure people out better, and I'm not shy, so i have no problem with it, even when Im stoned. I can look sober and like looking at people when, if I dont want em to, even suspect im stoned. the only time I have a problem with eye contact is when a guy is going down on me. I cant stand it, and my eyes are usually rolled to the back of my head anyway. haha

 

I think it is very common to be uncomfortable with looking into other people's eyes. I discovered that people almost never can remember people's eyecolors, which I found strange because I pretty much remeber all people, that I know fairly well,'s eye color. It is probably the only social/conversation skill that I possess.

 

Haha, same here. Practice makes perfect.

 

i'm like the exact opposite

i always look into peoples eyes and sometimes they are intimidated but i think they just get used to it and thats how you know i'm paying attention to you

 

i Used to be like that. I love eyes but i could never look into peoples eyes. As i got older i became more dominant and could stare someone down. Yet even now there are certain people i dont look at because the eyes are the windows to the soul and some people use that to dominate others. It becomes a power struggle i feel. I think people dont make it easy for eye to eye contact. Having passion and a Need to Communicate and be understood will make it easier to look at someones eyes since that is a very effective way of making someone focus on you