Insights

[macdobhran]

Projections bring about the powerful emotional interaction between external objects and ourselves: people or things we desire. For example, when we are attracted to something, we tend to exaggerate its qualities, seeing it as one hundred percent good or one hundred percent desirable, and we are filled with a longing for that object or person.

Comments

[pyrategrrl.livejournal.com]

*G* exactly! This is why i totally don't trust the "love at first sight" thing.

in that situation you can't possibly know the person well enough to love *who they really are*. You essentially fall in love with *your projection* of who you *think* they are.