Love is just an Illusion

It’s becoming apparent that love is just an illusion. Love is a feeling and not a tangible substance, love is just signals in the brain, the brain sends out these signals to our loins and these signals make our hearts beat faster and our smiles bigger.

So where do these signals come from, is it seeing someone’s smile, seeing their eyes or perhaps their words?

What or who is behind these signals in our brains?, The concept of love hasn’t been around as long as we think, cavemen didn’t fall in love, they just took a mate for procreation, animal instinct maybe, but animals don’t fall in love, plants don’t fall in love.

Perhaps in the past we were visited by some advanced aliens who planted the seeds of love in us, perhaps they saw our Neanderthal ways a bit too primitive, whoever did this to us will always be a mystery……….Love is just an illusion.

You will argue that love is real and of course you will say that, you have been programmed to think that.

My brain tells me I am in love, but I know it’s not real, it’s just an illusion.

Your thoughts?
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Red, You Like drinking beer, you like eating chips, the tree love....maybe its fauna-cation maybe just the fact you like trees.

The human seeds?.......I dont know, I still think its just a cruel joke by some giggling Aliens.
Hi Map. wave

Everything IS an illusion. That´s my bit for today. cheering
So what you're saying is it's just a chemical released by the brain dunno I'll pop into the chemists tomorrow & buy some smitten laugh
daniela, I think you are right, my coffee was real.........or was it?dunno
Your coffee is whatever you want it to be? dunno uh oh
Z, Yes indeed, but I think the off licence would be better, you can get all sorts of signals from booze, beer goggles, loss of inhibition and a sick grin is always enjoyed by the womenfolk, provided they have been drinking too.

The next day the booze wears off, the love you felt disintegrates along with the pieces of carrot you never actually ate.
Slightly off subject but you alluded to carrots without expanding the theory, as we all know whenever you're sick there will always be carrots barf see carrots, doesn't matter that you may not have eaten them for 10 years doh therefore if one wants to gain love & not weight stay away from carrots professor grin
Z, I paid an annual subscription to Zucchini weekly, The centre spreads always fill me with an illusion of wantonness, I will not renew the subscription though.
an illusion it sure is same as me empty coffee jar now has to go 14 mls for a jar yeah a big smile is a great start and a devilish grin is best of all
Ooops Map....accidentally viewed your profile

Don't worry....I haven't fallen in love with you! rolling on the floor laughing

Anyway, nice to feel the luuuurv all around this morning

Spread the luuuuuurrv hug grin
Map, then heartace would be an illution too...

cool wine
Map I cannot argue with facts/history, and yes, scientists have tried to explain it. I just know I have loved, going deeper than the fast beating heart, the chemicals Dopamine and Oxycontin that gush through the body when we first meet and are instantly attracted to a person [natures way of ensuring the species will mate] I still think there is something deeper, shared interests, laughter, great affection, [no it's different from your Cat/Dog, a wanting to be with them, respect, I can't explain it, but I know I have experienced it..... I thinkconfused
molly thumbs up yum yum yummt i have just made American apple pie, tasters have gone out with a dollop (huge) of ice cream. Smekct Gut.

I just new it mappy the seed is of thought in the begining, and needs nuturing for happy blooms.

your insite is purely lard doh and only from never-regions

Yes i must seek for an alien me thinks, for signals are strong and they are nearbybanana banana
zmountainman the carrots have now given you the cold shouldergrin

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love is an altered state of mind
Yes free it sure is and my music alters mind smitten
A life without love

is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead..
Love is nothin' but a made-up emotion - actually that's true.

I love I want I need I have to have, that's MINE, ooh I'm sad cause he gone, pitter-patter in the chest when you see him - all sorts of different reactions all bundled together under the umbrella word love.

Your brain says ooh and comes to attention so you tell yourself its love. Who is having that effect on you, by the way? (just being nosey)

My 70 year-old buddy was recently widowed after over 40 years. Only one serious girlfriend before the wife and guess what? He and that girlfriend, who have met fairly frequently at school reunions and always got on well, are now having a thing, and he's cheering up by the minute. I can hardly wait to turn 70, all the fun seems to be there.

banana
Fly, So a life without love is just like winter, cold and lifeless...I like that, thanks.
Yes lardgrin

Love is not an allusion it is two people getting to know each other, wanting to please each other, giving each other time alone shareing blah blah it certainly does not grow over night attraction is not lovescold

this is my last seriouse remark on cs.

Yep Biff i am 70banana banana Hope you are settling fine and enjoying the adventure of the move, even the hasstle it will all come out in the wash they sayapplause applause applause
I do agree that it is an altered state of mind, a kind of madness, but what a wonderful thing it is.
I know that when I grieved for the one I loved, it was genuine loss, but then I began to miss that wonderful feeling [madness? altered state?] that we have when we are in love. It is so pleasurable. I need chocolate, Fast.
Ded, In that case love does work in mysterious ways, Our brains tell us what we need to know, but Im sure that they hide stuff or perhaps ensure we do what's expected by society.
Red as 99% of my body is made from lard I cannot argue with that.


GG, Yes I agree with that, Ive no chocolate to fall back on though, a mouthful of chia seeds isnt the same.
Well Biff. of late I have been thinking of a burning love

So all you ladys on the blog today

cheering cheering cheering cheering
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing well put map i would not date a man who only likes instant grat-ificationlaugh laugh
Hey Fly!

I'm not saying I don't get heated laugh

Watch those flames of yours, but enjoy cheering
Map, tut. You need a longer relationship. Buy a coffee plantation! idea
like the song says, love is a 4 letters word
silly boy you do not know how to spell coffeelaugh
Sounds more like infatuation than love.

Love, imo, is a feeling state. I have felt deep deep love for life, in general. Love for the sake of loving. It's all just us projecting our gold or our dung onto everything we perceive, anyway.

I feel like that state of joy and appreciation is our highest state and is the state of being truest to who we really are as humans. No "other" is necessary in order to feel it or be it
All the world loves a lover.

Drink your coffee and listen to the performance laugh
two very strange bedfellows map

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You've gotta say ahhhhhlaugh
doh their both smiling and hearts floating opposites attract i say, tell that potatoe croc tears and he is not matched yet, just cur into chips smitten
wow wow map i will have to do conversions now doh and its sunday.

comfort ahh you are feeling down with revealing the truff,

and pot is crying he wanted to be chippedblues

Well do not worry i will send one of my runner beans and 1 tomtoe over, all homegrown, I just hope it will get by customs without problem, laugh laugh
Lol! That was supposed to say 'ladies'? I thought he was going for rabbis rolling on the floor laughing
On the contrary Ms Red, I dont get "down"

No need to send veg, plenty of real stuff here, believe it or not we actually grow things here.

Anyway, Whats all that got to do with love or the illusion of love?
Gypsy, Yes, I had to think carefully at his comment, but yes ladies, not rabies or rabbis, but he could have meant rabbits rolling on the floor laughing dunno
I wonder how many people here would claim that they have fallen truly in love with someone they have never spent any face to face time with.
Gyp, I don't think you can have 'true' love with someone you have never met and spent time with.


It's an idea of love more than the actuality.

You can have feelings, yes, but to me it's not love
Gypsy, I think a lot of people do think they have fallen in love without meeting.

As our resident expert stated "It's an idea of love more than the actuality", that is the truth.

Or is the truth the illusion?
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