Love at first sight?

Nope, I don't think it's real.

When I look at a guy. The first thing that goes through my head is "he's straight". Not really a love connection if you ask me.

 

I'm too big of a pessimist for things like that. But I'd love it if I could spot someone like that.

 

Sometimes... I believe in lust at first sight

 

Nah. I don't think so. Mainly because it's never happened to me.

 

No, I prefer to be able to know the person before having feelings for her.

 

Personally no, I don't believe in love at first sight.
More likely it's confused for lust or attraction at first sight.

 

Attraction, Desire and Lust, all that has to do with chemistry can certainly happen at first sight.

 

Love is an emotion that requires you to know a person on a much deeper level for it to just occur randomly. You might like something about someone and fool yourself into thinking that this is love, but in reality it is nothing more than simple infatuation.

We create emotions based on our thoughts and in this situation, we can attribute said affection towards our imagination, what we start imagining about the person we see without actually knowing them.

 

It's possible.

But more often than not it turns out to be a mistake

 

Yes--it happened to me with my partner. When I first saw him--we met in a bar--there was this strange shock of recognition and I knew how it would all go down. I don't pretend to know how or why but I did--I had never felt that way before about anyone and I never have since. At the end of our first encounter (I would say date but it actually was the evening I met him so date doesn't really seem appropriate) he commented that he was going to a party the next day--it was an Easter thing and he apologized that he couldn't take me (who he had just met a few hours prior) because it was sort of a formal thing and he had RSVP'd as one person. I remember my response was "that's alright I'll go next year." I wasn't being funny or facetious I was completely serious. He looked at me and said "you will, won't you... what they hell's going on here?" Neither of us knew how or why but we both knew right there from the beginning--we've been together for 17 years.

 

I find the answers in this thread interesting... There's no general consensus, I guess. It really is a "belief" thing.

As for me... I used to think it wasn't possible. But the first and only boy I've been in love with, I felt a spark with the first time I saw him four years ago. I hadn't even met him yet, but I saw him, and something went through me. Later, we met, then became close friends, and I just knew.

Then it happened again. I saw a girl, didn't even properly meet her. I was intrigued, went up to her, started talking. And I felt that same thing. We've since become friends, and there's still that feeling -- that bizarre, lovely feeling like a very intense crush.

So. I can't explain it. I don't believe in love at first sight. But... somehow, I feel like I should.

 

Exactly this!

For me it's not really love at first sight, because love needs time to develop and I have to get to know the person better.
But this feeling that the person is your soul-mate, that you're completely fascinated and you know this person will become someone special for you...Yes, I believe it's possible, absolutely possible. And it happend to me already.

 

No. You can fall for someone at first sight, but love takes time. The feeling of falling for someone can feel a lot like love, though.

 

I'm probably one of the very few hopeless romantics that does not believe in love at first.

my, somehow logical, theory is that when "that" happens, it is a very strong attraction to the other individual, it could not believe because you really don't know anything about the person. (unless you're a rather supreme superficial person, then you can get love based on looks alone, I think??)

 

It's always love at first sight when I see coffee<3