Intense eye contact is often a strong sign of real attraction.

If you have had several moments where you experienced intense eye contact with someone, it is usually a sign of potent attraction.

Before you start overthinking and get too excited, it’s critical you know what intense eye contact is.

Sometimes, when we like someone, we overinterpret what we thought we saw.

You enter a room where he is present, and he makes eye contact with you; the moment persists, and there is tension before someone takes the eye contact away.

Although this could mean that there is a real attraction, it doesn’t always.

Sometimes, this sustained period of eye contact happens because you so happen to show up in a room where there is no one else present.

This led to a moment of tension as the two of you sized each other up.

Once this moment passes and you go on to do whatever it is you entered the room to do, the tension you think you were just feeling may have been based on how awkward and unexpected the moment was.

This moment was sort of forced, being that you just entered the room and there was no one else present besides him.

Given all of this, there is no guarantee that what you experienced with him was a sign of real attraction.

On a different occasion, you make eye contact with each other in a hallway, and yet again, there is tension.

This time neither one of you wants to look away first, as this might be too obvious a sign that one is attracted to the other.

As a result, the eye contact persists for longer than usual, as you both dare the other to look away.

This isn’t always a strong sign of mutual attraction.

Sometimes, it means that the other party is too proud to show any signs of weakness, and thereby, they sustain eye contact, expecting you to be the one to look away.

Intense eye contact isn’t solely about moments where there has been sustained eye contact with someone else.

Real attraction is more nuanced than that.

When there is real attraction, there are going to be moments where you are not only looking at each other but also looking into each other.

It’s a period marked by intense thought, not only by eye contact.

Oftentimes, it is accompanied by dilated pupils.

A biological reaction that occurs due to an involuntary surge of “feel-good” brain chemicals, namely dopamine and oxytocin.

Thanks to these brain neurotransmitters, the autonomic nervous system stimulates the muscles in his irises, causing his pupils to enlarge so he can physically take in more of the person he is fixated on while his mind continues to speculate on what you are about as a person.

On top of this, when there is real attraction, his eyes have a way of remaining bedazzled long after the moment of intense eye contact has passed.

It’s like he is still in a daze.

His eyes keep going back to where he just saw you and locked eyes even though you are no longer physically there.

Such is the impact of your aura.