Seated and looking up to Ceiling

When someone seated looks up at the ceiling when everyone else is getting up from their chair. What is this an indication of?

Our Answer

This is a tough one. To be honest I'm a bit stumped.

My initial thought is that it may be very intimidating to look at the people who are standing up...

It's like looking at a forest of people!

To ease this feeling of intimidation, I can imagine that you would look at the ceiling. But this is total interpretation by me, I don't remember seeing this brought up in body language research before.

If anyone else has another interpretation, please feel free to share it in the comments!