I don't understand a dang thing from eyes. I see them more as just a physical part of the body, like a nose or an ear. They are just there as a sensory organ. They are for seeing.
There a saying that goes that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Yeah, I get nothing. It's just nerves connected to the brain at the back of the eye. There's no supernatural connection, or mind reading going on.
To me eye contact just means eye contact. 🤷🏻♀️
It doesn't necessarily tell me anything that they are thinking or feeling
Better to let a person's words and body language do the talking then think my intuition is strong enough to know what this look is really saying vs a different look. In fact I'd wager people tend to be more wrong then right if a scientific test was done and people had to choose an emotion to go with a photo of someone's eyes.
I think people are storytellers at heart and like to pretend a look means something vs another. But I think people get more cues from facial and body language then eyes.
Or I could just be entirely incapable of reading eye contact as anything more then eye contact. And it's a social cue that I just don't get. 🤷🏻♀️. After all isn't that why long stares feel the most uncomfortable, because you can't read eyes? Idk
