Is the Truth Within the Eye’s?

Of course television makes things look easy and believable; however, in reality sometimes things just aren’t so. Take lying for example. If you’ve watched a few “law” shows (and who hasn’t), they will get a confession from the guilty person by calling them out because he or she was caught in a lie. “How did you know I was lying?” he or she asks go through their “mental memory files.” “Because your eye’s kept looking up and to the right!” say’s the gruff detective.

This is not always the case in reality. There is such a thing called “Visual Accessing Cues” and people have been studied and tested with eye movement and telling a lie. There are six directions of eye movement people have when they are asked certain questions and have to use different parts of their brains to answer those questions.

These six visual accessing cues are:

Visually Constructed Images makes the eyes look up and to the left. If someone is asked to “imagine a beautiful waterfall in the forest” his or her eyes would move in this direction because they are “visually constructing” this image in their mind.

Visually Remembered Images make the eye’s look up and to the right. Ask a person “What was the color of your first bicycle” the eyes would move up and to the right while they remembered the color of their first bike.

The ears come into play too when people are trying to remember a sound or are trying to decipher what kind of sound it is.

If you asked a person to make the sound of a frog, their eyes will most likely move to the left. This is called “Auditory Construction” because a persons eye’s move to the left when they are trying to construct the sound of a frog.

Ask a person to remember what their “Aunt Fran’s” voice sounds like and their eyes will move to the right. This is “Auditory Remembered” since the person is trying to remember what “Aunt Fran’s” voice sounds like.

Of course the nose has to “stick” itself into the mix, and why not? Since smells can bring back good or bad memories.

Ask someone to remember what an orange grove smells like and their eyes will look down and to the left while remembering the last time they past an orange grove. This is called “Kinesthetic”.

I talk to myself all the time, especially when I’m working. While I’m talking to myself, my eyes are looking down and to the right. This is called “Internal Dialog.”

These are just some helpful, maybe even a bit interesting tips when it comes to what people are telling you. Nothing is written in stone and thank goodness we are all different and do things differently. However, studies have been done and there is some truth to this information, so the next time your talking to someone your not sure what they are telling you is true or b.s. Watch their eyes and see in which direction they move. You may just catch someone in a lie.