Why do we close our eyes when we kiss?

I feel more passion with my eyes closed.

A couple of reasons: From a purely practical point of view, while kissing you have one eye an inch or so from your partner’s face and the other eye looking out over his/her shoulder, which is visually uncomfortable. And secondly, it’s easier to be fully absorbed in the kiss when you draw the curtains on the outside world. I close my eyes when I taste a fine chocolate, too.

I close my eyes any time I want to be immersed in a sensation. Listening to good music, eating good food, having a great kiss, smelling something nice…

well, if you had seen a few of the girls i’ve kissed, you would keep you eyes closed also!

@Harp but honestly, Harp would be correct!

@ubersiren – Eating good food? :-)

Going out to dinner with you has to be an interesting experience. :-)

@ChazMaz Lol, yeah, that’s sort of a weird image, huh? I guess I should’ve said the first bite or so…

It makes you less easily distracted and able to more fully immerse yourself in the sensation.

I keep my eyes open. And despite trying to keep them closed – since I don’t want to freak out the girl on the receiving end – I really can’t. That’s just the way it works for me.

What the eyes can’t see the heart can feel. I think Shakespeare said that, or Stevie Wonder. One of the two anyway~

Only a guess here. maybe, closing our eyes when we kiss, starts our heart to beating, our motor to running and implants a thought that something else is coming down the road. try kissing someone with your eyes open and its just one set of lips contacting another set of lips. your mind is not focused on the moment.

I open mine. I like it creepy.

I keep my eyes closed, in case the EVIL SPIDERS arrive.

Tactile sense, you’re on !

Ever seen the guys I’ve kissed?

lol

Wow, you folks must have bad taste if you’re all so ashamed of whom you’re kissing. ;)

Or we are just caught up in the good tasting partner.

NOW I get what @ubersiren means by closing eyes when eating. :-)

Indeed.

I keep them open. I can’t keep my eyes closed for long without having to focuss hard so I’m actually less distracted by keeping them open.

Because I don’t want to see the third eye between his two that appears when we’re that close!

because its just weird to look at the person when your kissing them, duhh :)

Sometimes open , sometimes closed- depends…

there’s nothing like a nice, long makeout session.

Always closed because usually I am transported to someplace else…

@Tomfafa Someplace other than your girlfriend?

He he… I should have said ‘we’ get transported… so busted I.

@Tomfafa Your a little weird….!

And proud of it!

it just seems awkward to me to kiss with my eyes open. lol

Allow me to try again… it might start with a physical attraction, you might be drawn to the other person by the eyes.. the smile… the scent… the touch! And so you want a taste… a taste of their breath,,, their lips… a feel of their hair… their neck! You become mesmerized, hypnotized! You pull her ever so tight. Every sensation in your body is on fire… you cannot break away… even for a breath! Lack of air makes you light headed… a feeling of floating… when you do take a breath you realize… All you need to live is the air that you breath and her (their) lips!

@Tomfafa Great answer.

And then you make love… slowly at first, reluctantly almost because you have to leave the planet that is her lips… and… it… becomes… more urgent, frantic… again and again. Pleasure almost becomes pain… which is which? Your body temperature goes up, your breath becomes shorter. You can only stop when you collapse in a heap! Every muscles hurts! You share a sheet and sit outside cuddled in the cool night air. You envelope her in your arms. She takes a deep breath, shudders… and… starts crying softly! “Why are you crying?” She buries her face in your neck and says “Because I love you so much, I am afraid” You close your eyes… you know you’re in love.

@Tomfafa That’s so beautiful.

@Dibley The post is true… I can tell hundreds more, even more incredibly romantic and sexy! Unfortunately I lost her about 3 years ago… (we broke up) and I am still afraid to find out if I am recovered. Even though I had my business to take of… still, we went around the world together for 7 years. But even if we hung out on a park bench it was magic. I suppose I’ll never get over my love for her… best I can hope for is to manage the hurt so that life continues. My eyes are still closed. Hope all is well for you Dibley, and that guy that can’t say those thee words.

One more story… Hot summer day… late afternoon, we were hanging out at the water side of a crowded Hudson river pier smoking a joint, catching a breeze. All of a sudden the sky opened up! Couldn’t see two feet in front of you! People running, screaming… she got on top of me and I was ready! We made love and the world stood still. I know because when I opened my eyes the fat raindrops were frozen in place! All dazzling in the sun like a million diamonds. When the rain slowed and stopped we were still ‘joined’ but exhausted! It turned out there were two gay boys sitting at arms length… very impressed. One says ‘you got any more of that weed?’ My gf punched his arm.

One more… A great night of clubbing… boozing… drug-ing… We get home…just make it. Get undressed, climb into bed, under the covers. I have my arm under her head, my palm on her belly, she hugging my arm. ‘Are you comfortable?’ mmmm I make an adjustment with my foot. ‘Are you really comfortable?’ I pull her butt in really hard and start to drift into the land of dreams as I sink deep into my lovely bed… ‘I got to pee’ she says. We never quite found that position again.

One more… We’re on a Caribbean island… we decide to rent a small motorcycle and head to our favorite roadside fish stand. She sits behind me close up. We half explore and half head to the restaurant and then we found it! It was a long straight road completely covered by palm trees… the sun magically stabbed thru the palms like blades this way and that! We got to a stoplight at the end of the road… behind me… she took a deep breath and put her cheek on my shoulder… I was in love!

@Tomfafa All is well here thanks. I like reading your posts.

because its about feeling the other persons body and soul. with your eyes open your focus will end up somewhere else. when your eyes are closed its more than just a kiss; its an intimate situation/bond formed with another person.

because the most beautiful things in life are left unseen :)