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Why can't we tickle ourselves
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Ladies and Gentlemen i think this, this topic is the meaning of life
cowsgoquack
well duh cos its going to tickle
No no no, being ticklish comes about from a deeprooted fear of people touching you.
Punk Phloyd
No no no, being ticklish comes about from a deeprooted fear of people touching you.
I see! I never knew i didnt like people touching me! thanks for letting me know person i've never met from the internet!
I think it's something to do with the neurones. I mean your own brain is controlling the tickling, you're expecting the sensation in your foot or whatever and controlling it, thus you don't react in the same way to it. Yet when someone else is doing it, it's not your own brain doing it, therefore you have no control over it and your nerves stimulate a reaction of laughter/kicking (in my case, once I accidentally kicked my brother in the gonads when he was tickling my neck for some strange reason, I only meant for him to get away from me 
), much like an impulse reaction, to get rid of the tickling thing. Which could, primatively, be anything; a spider, a wee bunny rabbit etc etc. Your brain, even though it expects the other person is tickling you, your nervous system probably doesn't interpret it in the same way as when you're tickling yourself, to use another example, you still squirm when you hear loud noises even though sometimes you're expecting them, whereas when you make the loud noise you know exactly the intensity and when it's going to come, and you're producing it, so you don't squirm when you're hearing it.
That's my theory
), much like an impulse reaction, to get rid of the tickling thing. Which could, primatively, be anything; a spider, a wee bunny rabbit etc etc. Your brain, even though it expects the other person is tickling you, your nervous system probably doesn't interpret it in the same way as when you're tickling yourself, to use another example, you still squirm when you hear loud noises even though sometimes you're expecting them, whereas when you make the loud noise you know exactly the intensity and when it's going to come, and you're producing it, so you don't squirm when you're hearing it.That's my theory
i can tickle myself, mostly on the inside of my elbow and roof of my mouth (with my tongue). it is worse when other people are doing the tickling though because we arent expecting it and we arent 100% sure how it will feel.
strawberry_princess
I can on my feet!
Yeah same, and a little bit on my midriff.
cowsgoquack
I see! I never knew i didnt like people touching me! thanks for letting me know person i've never met from the internet!
Clearly you missed the "Apparently" part of the first post.
Solve this once and for all - http://health.howstuffworks.com/question511.htm
why.
It's because the tickle sensation is a defence mechanism. Which is why we can't feel the sensation ourselves but it is triggered by sensation of others on our skin.
If we could feel ourselves tickle ourselves the defence mechanism ceases to work.
If we could feel ourselves tickle ourselves the defence mechanism ceases to work.
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