Who thinks in Pictures?

Continuing from the previous blog article, I wish to further elaborate on the eye movements and how to interpret them.  What benefits would it bring to your day to day life? Will you be able to understand whether a person is lying?

Eye is moving up left and up right.

The first thing that we need to understand is if the eye is moving upwards, most likely the person is a visual person. Important thing to note is that eye movement itself does not tell whether the person is a visual or not. But might give a glimpse to understand whether the person is thinking in images or sounds or talking to thyself.

Eye moving upwards means most of the time is that a person is thinking in pictures. If the eye moves towards the up left corner. That means the person is referring to an area which the already has experienced. The person is referring to a memory in pictures. If you ask a simple question like do you remember the first day you went to school and you see the person’s eye moving up left corner. The person is remembering that very instance in pictures and images. The color of the cloth the person was wearing all that they try to remember.

If the eye is moving towards the upright corner. The person is constructing something in pictures. If you ask a visual about how yourself in 10 years. His eye would move towards the upright corner, where the person constructs that position in images. Identifying these simple things will help you a lot in building rapport with a person.

Visuals use words like “see”, “envision”, “looks great” where their vocabulary has a close link with how they think. Which is in pictures. Pay close attention to these simple things, you can easily create rapport at the subconscious level with visual people using words to in line with their thinking pattern.

Although this sounds very simple, in practice it is very difficult to identify and leverage on this knowledge areas.  

What Eyes Tell You..

You need to look directly in the eye of a person to really understand that person. Is this statement overrated? Day in and day out we hear things like this in the movies we watch, with the people we work with. If the person does not look in your eyes is he really lying? Or is it all a myth.

If you really try to analyze this, from our sensory inputs eyes dominates on how we perceive this world. In our minds we do not remember the world as a Smell, world has no taste, it is not the feeling of touching sand on the ground nor a sound that depicts or reminds us about the world. The world is a set of images right embedded in our minds. Even if you look at the pre-historic era our ancestors left us with carvings inside caves to depict what they saw the world.

The shape of our eyes are a bit similar to animals who hunt for food like tigers, lions. These animals have pointed eyes so that they can have sharp focus on the pray. Likewise our eyes are focused and pointed to perceive the world from a focused view width. But if you look at innocent animals like rabbits their eyes are big and direct outwards so they can see any predator who is approaching with a wider view width. Likewise evolutionary humans with their advanced thinking capacity their sensory input glands has also evolved significantly.

From evolution perspective is there any truth behind the fact that if a person is lying that the person will not look into the eye? Has evolution made us more defensive or has evolution made us more offensive? Think of the last time you closed your ears from your palms so that you could not hear the noise? Highly likely that either the sound was unpleasant or of high decibels or it roused fear. When will we close our noses, is if the smell that we absorb is unpleasant. When will we want to stop tasting something? Isn't it because we do not like the experience we are having?

Likewise when you think about eyes, you tend to look away if the experience is unpleasant. Remember when you are watching news and see a sensitive video, the immediate reaction is take your eyes away from what you are seeing.  Food for thought is that, is the person really lying or does the person not like the experience?

Actually there is a way of understanding, what a person is thinking based on where the person’s eye ball moves. Brain has different compartments which stores different information. Visual, Auditory information is stored in different areas of the brain. Thus if you carefully observe a person’s eye, you can see the eye ball moving towards the Upper Right, Upper left, Right, left, Lower Right and Lower Left. Just see whether you can find any relationship to what he talks about and where the eye ball moves?

In my next blog article I tend to discuss more about these eye movements.