Developing ticklishness?

[jellopink]

Probably a very ridiculous notion, but...

I was wondering if people's bodies can naturally become more sensitive/ticklish as time progresses (whether they grow or get "trained" into it)? I know the reverse happens (desensitizing), but always couldn't help but wonder whether a person's level ticklishness stops at a certain point, like physical maturity...

Thanks for your time!

 

[SantaFeSwitch]

Probably a very ridiculous notion, but...

I was wondering if people's bodies can naturally become more sensitive/ticklish as time progresses (whether they grow or get "trained" into it)? I know the reverse happens (desensitizing), but always couldn't help but wonder whether a person's level ticklishness stops at a certain point, like physical maturity...

Thanks for your time!

I don't know, but it is possible to increase or decrease sensitivity thru meditation where one can gain yogic control over bodily processes. So if the focus of your meditation is to enhance skin sensitivity I suppose it's possible and is something that could be developed over time (as well as desensitizing, but we don't want that!).

 

[solescratcher99]

I don't know, but it is possible to increase or decrease sensitivity thru meditation where one can gain yogic control over bodily processes. So if the focus of your meditation is to enhance skin sensitivity I suppose it's possible and is something that could be developed over time (as well as desensitizing, but we don't want that!).

Yep. And it depends what type of approach they're using in meditation. If they meditate strictly on their emotions or feelings they could very well become extremely ticklish. However, if they're contemplating emotions as simply another group of phenomena, then they may become desensitized.

 

[ElFewja]

Not a doctor. It would make sense if it did not increase, though. Our bodies begin to decay after a certain point, and I don't think that our sensory receptors would be excluded.

I think it's like everything else. It increases, then decreases, but is largely based on mental status. Yoga and meditation are one way supposedly, but I know if I breathed on my old lee's ears or tickled her spine for a bit, it increased the hell out of her sensitivity elsewhere, to the point that she would scream. If you're in a shitty mood, tickling doesn't work so well; if you're in a giddy mood, it seems to work better.

I think its more mental than anything.

There are ways to make your skin more sensitive via not so natural means, lotion/warm water and such, but that is off topic.

Etc.

 

[Lord Doctor]

Probably a very ridiculous notion, but...

I was wondering if people's bodies can naturally become more sensitive/ticklish as time progresses (whether they grow or get "trained" into it)? I know the reverse happens (desensitizing), but always couldn't help but wonder whether a person's level ticklishness stops at a certain point, like physical maturity...

Thanks for your time!

It fluctuates.... such that I spent my years 10-27.8 about as ticklish as a stone... recently it has started returning...

...all that's missing is a female "ticking tree!"... Opps, major admissionn 😉

 

[TheTickleMonster]

i think i met someone that i tickled one time and she said she didn't used to be that ticklish when i tickled her, but i dont' remember, i just think i remember that lol

 

[SantaFeSwitch]

Yep. And it depends what type of approach they're using in meditation. If they meditate strictly on their emotions or feelings they could very well become extremely ticklish. However, if they're contemplating emotions as simply another group of phenomena, then they may become desensitized.

Yea, I think that's exactly right, it could go either way depending on the kind of meditation. The way to enhance it would be to focus on the sensations themselves, blocking out everything else arising in your consciousness and tuning in to the sensations you wish to develop, becoming more sensitive with focused awareness--that's the imminent approach. But witnessing your sensitivity/ticklishness as an object of awareness would tend to objectify it so you could become nonattached and less ticklish, the transcendent approach.

The state of consciousness you're in definitely effects it. When I'm high on pot I get extremely ticklish and I had a girlfriend who loved to take advantage of me when I was high!

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

I've also noticed that the more comfortable I am in general at the moment and in specific with the person(s) tickling me the more responsive I am. I've come to recognize this as simply being the fact that my natural defenses aren't as keyed up then as they might normally be becauseI feel safe with said persons and have no need for them. It tends to be those I'm most comfortable with that can get to me the most quickly and intensely.

 

[Mz Chaos]

My two cents...

Bear with me... I WILL get to the point.

Last week the mailman was pounding on the door. I sprinted through the house to get there before he left. I dodged one of those infernal kittens that the roomate hasn't gotten rid of yet and in doing so I twisted my ankle and landed on my left knee taking a bit of hide with it.

Now as a kid... I don't remember skinning my knee to be so damned painful for so damned long. That sucker hurt to bend it for DAYS! In fact, it still hurts a little. I can remember as a kid when I'd skin a knee... it'd hurt for a few minutes but in an hour or so I wouldn't even be limping.

So... it seems to me that either as adults our tolerance to sensations decreases...

Or I'm just a big wuss now-a-days.

 

[ElFewja]

Memory is also shit.

It's not a reliable source, ever. Which I think would make this particular issue hard to gauge.

Etc.

 

[Bonnie]

i dont know HOW either happens...but i know ive gotten more ticklish. i use to not be ticklish at all but now im pretty ticklish. not insanely but ive gotten comments like "why are you so ticklish" and "goddamn". ive heard theories relating it to the fear of bugs and i use to like caterpillars and ants and all that but now i hate them >=p