Seeing Is Touching, Eyes Are Limbs

Source Domain
touching, limbs

Target Domain
seeing, eyes, looking

Looking At Something On Purpose Is Touching It With Eyes Or Glance

-- 1 I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

-- 2 I felt his glance.

-- 3 I met his glance with my own.

Discovering By Looking Is Manipulating With Eyes Or Glance

-- 1 Her eyes picked out a detail in the pattern.

Seeing Something By Accident Is Accidently Touching It With Eyes Or Glance

-- 1 My eyes happened to fall on the crucial clue.

-- 2 My glance happened to fall on the photograph.

-- 3 Our eyes met.Perhaps the "glance" is understood as a limb. "Eyes" in metonymy?Interacts with UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING. Seeing through deceptionpropably needs EYES ARE LIMBS.

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