A curious Dichotomy of thought...

[Ticklish9's]

Has anyone else ever noticed this particular disparity of thought? I speak primarily to ticklees in the crowd...I know when I get tickled (which is with disturbing frequency, these days) it's a shivery feeling that I absolutly can't stand...but deep, deep down, I never really want it to end. Now, I kick hard enough that I never get tickled more than a brief couple seconds at a time (bless the runner legs) and that seems like the perfect length of time; any more and I can't even imagine what it would be like. But sometimes, deep down inside, I'd like to know what it would be like to feel that horrible tickly sensation creep over me, all the while knowing I was helpless to resist it, even to struggle against it. *shudder* A most deliciously frightening thought.
All the same, subconscious desires to the contrary, I think I'll continue to exhaust my curiousity on being helplessly tickled into oblivion via proxy. Just to be on the safe side. 🙂 Anyway, my question was: does anyone else experience this same kind of double feeling?

 

[giggledude]

I have a little of that double feeling about tickling, but have it much stronger for some bizarre reason about hypnotism/mind control. Maybe there's some kind of link to do with one's will being subjugated. But the idea of being hypnotized generally fills me with conflicting desires - to fight off a highly skilled hypnotist, and to struggle to the full extent of my will but lose at last and be reshaped completely. It seems more or less in the same ballpark with what you describe, and at least matches your feeling in that it's being explored only by proxy.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

giggedude

your fear/fantasy of hypnotism is groundless. cheer-up, you can not be hypnotised unless you want to be hypnotised. infact, you have to want it to work! any discordant thought about the process, and it won't work! there is not such thing as being hypnotised against your will.

to the ? posed by ticklish9s; no. i love the feeling when i'm being ticked. i welcome the tickles with open arms. i don't know why, but with me tickling feels good, and erotic.😀
steve

 

[giggledude]

Yes, there's the rub. I don't think I really mean ordinary hypnotism as we know it because of that condition. Closer would be something like what happens in Thomas Mann's story *Mario and the Magician*, in which a mentalist who's something of a cross between a hypnotist and a psychic manages to impose his own will upon (usually willing) members of his audience and has a protracted struggle of wills with an antagonist who undertakes to resist his commands. Probably not much basis in reality there.

 

[tklr5150]

Ah, the timeless love-hate relationship with being tickled . . . insatiable desire to feel it yet terrific fear of it at the same time. I guess the real question is, do you hate to love it, or love to hate it? Me, I haven't been getting it nearly often enough - I'm just looking forward to the next time right now.