Why can't people tickle themselves?
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Other than Ms Demanda (who is not weird), people can't because the brain "knows" where the tickling is going to occur and so isn't surprised. That's an antromorphic way of looking at it, but it is basically the answer.\n\nExperiments have been done on this (really) where people had a little gadget that when they pushed a button a little pokey thing would try and tickle them. It didn't work - unless there was a delay built into the device. In other words you push the button and the little pokey thing doesn't poke until 1.3 seconds later.
1151076
I have a cousin (who I will not name for her privacy) who was sooooooo ticklish that she would freeze up when she was tickled.   She would try to block the initial tickling but then she would be overcome with silent laughter and she would become "paralyzed" with laughter.\n\nAs fun as she was to tickle, I never took advantage of her.  I wish that I could find a gf as ticklish as she was! :o}
178702
Just concentrate really hard on not being ticklish. Always works for me. Good luck!
1000597
well, when you get tickled, your nerves and your brain kind of dont expect it. when you try to tickle yourself, your brain knows that you told yourself to do it.\n\non a technical scale, \n\nyour cerebellum tells your arm and finger muscles to move to wherever you are going to tickle yourself. your brain senses that you are going to touch that portion of your body, and it is stored from the cerebellum as a short-term memory, which tells your brainstem to filter out the ticklishness or to kind of shut down the sensitivity in the nerve endings on that area of your body. did you get all that?
419409
There is no generally accepted reason why human beings laugh. We do know that it is tied to crying from brain injuries that have resulted in people suddenly crying or laughing for no reason. The area of the brain that controls this is relatively small and the injuries are rarely the same making study of the actual mechanism difficult.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickling
1132765
Yes,it is possible for someone to be physically perfect,but act like a robot and not be able to comprehend humor.But on the other hand,humor is a subjective thing,I might laugh at a joke,and "get it" while my friend will say that didnt make any sense.Not everything is funny to everyone.
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It has to do with feedback. Whether you acknowledge it consciously or not, you are aware of the movements of your different body parts, what they are doing, etc, even if your eyes are closed. Even if you are deaf. If I remember right, this is called propiocentrics (don't quote me though). So if you touch your own arm, you not only feel your arm being touched, you feel that your hand is touching your arm, which confirms that it is you doing the touching. This is feedback.\n\nThis is why a numb limb can be very creepy. Ever wake up with your arm asleep and think someone else's arm is hanging over you? It's a rather common occurence. The feeling of numbness results partly from a lack of feedback. If your arm is numb, you can't confirm that you are touching that arm (unless you look, but that's only a substitute for sensory feebback).\n\nSo if you will notice, you can be tickled by a lot of different things. Feathers, hands, pretty muchh anything that's not too hard and pointy poking you the right way will tickle, except for your own hands. For some reason, this feedback interrupts the tickle reflex. I don't know why, but it could be because tickling is a social activity. It mihgt be something meant to be used in play, to strengthen social bonds, or it might be a way the body warns you it is being attacked. Either way, it would serve no purpose to tickle yourself. Those are just guesses though (and not very good ones).\n\nThe simplest answer is sensory feedback inhibits the tickle reflex.
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sometimes the message just doesn't get across because you can't tell body language or hear inflection.  \n\notherwise, i'd say a large part of the online community simply has too large a stick up their behinds to laugh at themselves or to ever consider that so much of their very existence is laughable to others.
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well when im with my friends and they are sad or even if im with my friends or family..if i wanted to make them laugh i would go up really close to there ear and sniff. it works every time and its really funny what some people do...lol i know you probly think im an idiot but im not. (unless you dont like me)......\n\n                       So did i make ya laugh????
511544
it is the same theory as why you know when you are hurting .it is your brains autonomic reaction to an action.pinch yourself and it will hurt but not as much as if some one else did it unexpectedly so tickle yourself you know whats going to happen so your mind tells you it does not feel the same,therefore it does not tickle .you feel some sensation but not the same reaction
1046156
Most of us have a ticklish spot somewhere on our bodies, and it is usually pretty easy to find. For some it's just above the knee, for others it's the back of the neck, and some of us go into fits of laughter if someone grabs our sides. Laughing when another person tickles you is a natural reaction. Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural defense to little creepy crawlers like spiders and bugs. Slight tickles from insects can send a chill through your body letting you know something is crawling on you.\n\nThat same ticklish feeling sends us into a state of panic and elicits a response of uncontrollable laughter if a person tickles us. It's the moment that you least expect to be tickled and are that causes you to feel extremely uneasy and panicked, which leads to the most intense ticklish feeling. Even if you do know that you are about to be tickled, the fear and unease of someone touching and possibly hurting you causes you to laugh. Some people are so ticklish that they begin laughing even before they are touched.\n\nSo, if someone else's touch can tickle us, why can't we tickle ourselves? Much of the explanation for this question is still unknown, but research has shown that the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of a lot of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same as it would if someone else were to tickle us.\n\nBrain scientists at the University College London have pinpointed the cerebellum as the part of the brain that prevents us from self-tickling. The cerebellum is the region located at the base of the brain that monitors our movements. It can distinguish expected sensations from unexpected sensations. An expected sensation would be the amount of pressure your fingers apply to your keyboard while typing. An unexpected sensation would be someone sneaking up behind you and tapping you on the shoulder. While the brain discards the sensation of typing, it pays a lot of attention to someone tapping on your shoulder. The difference in reactions from expected to unexpected is a built-in response that probably developed in early human history to detect predators.\n\nAlthough we are not able to tickle ourselves unassisted, there is a way to trick the brain by using a robot tickler. That's right. With all of the know-how of science and technology, a robot has been designed to allow people to tickle themselves. The same British scientists mentioned above have designed a machine that enables you to tickle yourself by remote control. To use the machine, a person lies on their back with their eyes shut. The robot is located near the person with a piece of soft foam attached to a plastic rod that is controlled by a remote control joystick. When the person activates the rod, the robot will react after a short delay. Even with delays as short as a fifth of a second from the time the person activates the rod until the robot tickled the person's hand, subjects have described the sensation as the same as another person tickling them. So, in a sense, you could tickle yourself with a robotic assistant.
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Im not really sure...I can tickle my own feet..i dont laugh but it feels kinda funny like i want to laugh.
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HI IQ seems to be really serious. They have more interesting tests than tickle and if your are over 124, you can join and be a part of the think tank, games, forum.
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I don't believe that there is any correlation between how ticklish somebody is and how susceptible they are.\n\nMost people are born ticklish.  Some people learn to control it and block it and some don't.  Some people like it or love tickling and some dislike it or hate it.\n\nWhether one is ticklish or not and whether one likes to be tickled or not knows no boundaries based on race, religion, ethnicity, height, weight, sense of humor......\n\nA non-ticklish person is just as likely to be duped into something as a ticklish person is.\n\nA trained hypnotist can hypnotize a ticklish person and a non-ticklish person just as easily and the client can benefit from the healing suggestions offered by the hypnotist.
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It depends upon who is tickling me.  If its a gal I love, I love it, and I'll tickle back.  If its anybody else, it's quite annoying.
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its probably that you like to see women enjoying themselves - and you being in control\n\ntry untieing them and let them tickle you too - you might enjoy this more