Love | The Alien World

Jun 06

K, I love u!

Posted in: My Life

Being alone is so hard, no one can tell that better than me. I m in States for now almost 4 weeks, away from family and friend. I m living in Santa Barbara downtown and this place is full of restaurants and pubs. Evenings are great – lots of beautiful people around, it feel like love is in the air. So that’s all the more reason to hate being alone. I m missing my wife, which I always do when she is not around, but this time it’s different. Usually she is the one who is on the move, and I wait for her at home. This time there is a slight role reversal – she is at home and I am away.

The only good thing being away from her is that it constantly keeps reminding me how important she is in my life, and how difficult is life without her.

Feb 21

Love = Cocaine = Dopamine

Posted in: Did you know

Every time I hear about cocaine, or grass I get a picture of ‘hare rama hare krishna’ song, in short the picture of hippie culture. Feels like so much of love and passion involved.

Taling about love, it creates strong emotions & chemical reactions which results an increase in certain hormones like dopamine in the body. A reaction your brain make on making love (having sex) is similar to the brain reaction on having cocaine. In certain cases the emotion can be so strong that the person under effect can be intoxicated enough to kill someone or even self if refused love.

Dopamine is a hormone commonly associated with having pleasure, providing feelings of enjoyment and motivating a person to perform certain activities repeatedly. Well, you know what this is pointing to… People in India might be aware of ‘Bhaang’, which on consuming also results in similar behavior.

Did you also know Dopamine helps regulate movement and emotion and its depletion may cause Parkinson’s disease.