Gelisim News

Asst. Prof. at Istanbul Gelisim University Department of Psychology Onur Okan Demirci, described the form of love, the sympathetic system action defined as soon as I saw him my heart started to beat rapidly, breathed, hands sweat, my head became tingled, butterflies began to fly in my stomach, felt like I could not stand in my place, for many years.

Stating that there are two types of mechanisms that occur automatically in the nervous system Asst. Prof. Onur Okan Demirci said: “These are the so-called sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The parasympathetic system is a system that starts to work when we eat and when we eat and brings us calmness and peace. The sympathetic system is a system that activates in situations of danger, excitement and tension”.

Indicating that when a person sees the one that fall in love with the sympathetic nervous system is activated Asst. Prof. Demirci explained: “The heart rate is accelerated when the sympathetic system becomes active. Blood flow to the brain decreases and our brain begins to tingle. As the blood flow to our digestive system is reduced, the brain becomes tingling. As the lung volume gets smaller, we begin to breathe faster and feel like our breath is cut off. In the result of the blood flow directed to the muscles of the arms and legs, we begin to feel the inability to stop. When we fall in love, we feel so.”

“NOT EVERYONE MAY EXPERIENCE THE SAME DENSITY”

Indicating that some emotions are alike Asst. Prof. Demirci added: “The feelings we feel in love can sometimes resemble fear and even hate. It is a structure in the brain that gives the name ‘Amygdala’, which makes us understand the mood of fear and what kind of mood it is from the mimics of the person in front of us. A good empathy ability may be associated with the development of the amygdala structure. Therefore, the intensity of emotions we experience when we fall in love may be related to the development of the amygdala structure. This may explain why everyone does not have the same degree of love”.

“WE DECIDE THE LEVEL OF DELECTATION WITH THE ODOR”

Nevertheless, emphasizing that the state of love cannot only be related to the sympathetic nervous system, Asst. Prof. Demirci, continued as follows:

 “Scientific research in recent years has shown us that the sense of smell, that is, the pheromone effect in animals, is also valid in humans. We people can actually smell the human in front of us on an unconscious level. We can match this fragrance with our own system and decide whether we like it or not. In fact, what we call skin harmony is a process governed by this pheromone system. In the human experiments, people have smelled the dresses of the people they are in love with (these are the clothes that they do not know who belonged to) showed that the signs of love appeared.”