TL;DR- Fresh Redpiller makes eye contact with two hot girls on separate occasions and confirms how powerful it truly is when you apparently have SMV you never thought you did.

Before I begin, no I didn't talk to either of the women described in this post. Part of me is slapping myself for not doing so, but I am honestly in the early portions of Monk Mode right now, and need to get my own shit together first so I'm in that right mindset to be able to cold approach.

That said, in further reading the sidebars hear and the main sub I've been reading about how important eye contact is. I've always been bad at. Really bad. Couldn't even look guys in the eye while talking, let alone a girl I classify as attractive.

I forgot where I read this specifically, but it was advice to train yourself to do it more often, to basically stare down other people until they break their gaze from you. I've been doing it here and there subtly, but aware of the fact that I'm intentionally training myself to keep good eye contact...mostly just walking down the street people watching, but today I upped the ante by targeting attractive girls.

Example #1 was transferring from the #4 train to the #5 here in The Bronx. In front of me is this slim beauty in a slinky black dress. White girl, Long brown hair with gorgeous legs that indicate she works out, in nude colored heels I believed to be at least 4 inches high. I'd say she's an HB8 to 8 1/2 She gracefully traverses two sets of stairs in these things like a pro (which could have EASILY been my opener to talk to her, praising her performance...predicating the slapping of my head as I type this, you fucking noob), and I eventually get ahead of her as she's graceful but not fast. I didn't get to see her face though as I didn't want to stare, so I kind of eased up on my throttle a bit. Very pretty girl, and from the looks of it she was obviously on her way to some kind of event or what have you (how is she going there alone...on the subway...looking like a prom queen? Ugh...should have talked.)

Anyway, she's going downtown and I'm going uptown so we're on opposite tracks. I'm guessing she had a good look at me while I was going down the stairs. As I eluded in a previous post on the "ask" sub, I'm a "bear" type of body...I have muscle, but I've got pudge with it that needs to be rectified (though I'm aware some girls like that kind of body). I didn't mention however than I'm also a Black guy who looks really young for my age, and well dressed, so I'm probably pretty exotic to her (hooray for not being a stereotype!). So I catch her looking at me the first time, and she quickly breaks her gaze. I follow up by looking intently at her, and I could tell from her body language that she was into it. She looks back, and after a good 10 seconds (which is probably the longest I've ever looked at a complete stranger) she breaks gaze again. In my mind I'm thinking "holy shit, it's true!" She was clearly into the attention I was giving her, even if it was so little time as I think of it now. Downtown train comes, she gets on and that's that.

Second example is on my bus heading home. Black girl, short but thick in the right places, jeans straining from "dat ass". Mahogany colored hair, pretty face, she's an HB8 as well. We're both standing close to the exit door and she's applying lip gloss. We're really close to each other, but she's not objecting to my presence in her space. Could even look down for clear glimpses of "dat ass". Far, far close proximity than the other girl, but I do the same thing. No words, just looking. She looks back a few times and isn't uncomfortable. Again, probably could have (and SHOULD have) said something, but baby steps here. I'm only recently growing into a more social animal after 35 years of being plugged in. She gets off at her stop, I get one more look at "dat ass", and that's that.

So, I take two things away from my experiment today. First, strong eye contact is as important as they all say it is, and shouldn't be taken for granted. If you're like me and were never good with it, get out of your comfort zone and take a look around. You might see a lot to like. Second, and probably the most important thing I take out of this is that I REALLY need to get my head right, because I apparently have more SMV than I ever though I did.

That's why I'm here, right? Baby steps. I think I'm going in the right direction though.

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the encouragement, and that includes the troll responses that made me have to take a firm look at holding frame and understanding that women aren't the only ones who shit test. I'll be sure my next contribution will be more high level than this. In the meantime I'm going to talk less and read more. I've got a lot of work to do it seems.