Dilated eye concept!

Whenever I looked into the eyes of people, it seemed to tell everything. But as a kid, it required a lot of looking, observing, seeing, beholding, perceiving and what not, to just look into the eyes of a person and ‘guess’ what ‘stuff’ the hidden being inside is made up of! Somewhere quite innocently, I had started off with this eye-watching. Then it was the alert ‘gaze’ that attracted me ‘way-beyond’…

One of the bye-products of meditative practices is that we get to have a ‘feel’ of handling our eyes, the receptivity, the focusing, and many other wonderful things! (What an ‘eye-dear’ sir Jee!)

I least expected that a question of this sort would come up!

There was a ‘technical’ answer, which is by all means ‘professional’ and hence does ‘matter’ as an answer. But as they say, when it is an issue of “Mind over matter, if you don’t mind, it does not matter” !!

Since I am not involved here, in an eye-for-an-eye tussle, “ I ” wind up as also my ‘eyes’ to quote the question/answer.
Regards,
Psn (23rd December, 2009)

Quote:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091222155922AAM1xRu

The question:
How do pupils dilate to someone you have interest in, as opposed to shades of light or dark?
They say pupils get smaller in the light, and bigger in the dark, then what's the concept of it getting bigger when you have an interest in someone?


The very good technical answer:
when pupils constrict or dilate from light or dark it is because ganglion light receptors on retina(tissue in the back of the eye), send a message to the occulomotor nerve which controls pupil size via the parasympathetic nervous system. when you have interst in someone, pupils may dilate as effects of the sympathetic nervous system, for example, release of epinephrine. (adrenaline)
Source(s):
ophthalmic technician and student nurse

My ‘diluted’ (or, was it dilated?) answer:
Almost very much like the auto focus camera, where there is a choice of 'manual-settings' too !!!Left by itself, the eyes test only the light, to decide the aperture size...When "we" decide to let in a person, we take over partially, the 'deciding' factor of how much of that person to be let in us, and the aperture size gracefully 'bows' to our wishes! When it is a new born innocent charming, enchanting, never-tiring-to-look-at face of a baby child, the eyes cooperate beyond the "call of duty", refusing to even blink out of its own physical urgency! Otherwise, forget the aperture, we don't even see "eye-to-eye"!!