tickling and staying awake.

[youwontknowme]

the brits here will know that a week long programme has just begun on channel called 'shattered' in which contestants compete for £100,000 by staying awake for one week without any sleep.

Without going in to too much detail the contestants are given tasks to cause them to sleep and tested to allow them to stay in the game. I think there is opportunity in this show for tickling to occur: maybe not as a challenge or task but as a technique to stay awake from your co-competitors. Tickling excites you, makes you laugh and so temporarily makes you alert. Any thoughts on this?

Could a five minute tickle first thing in the morning be more effective then a coffee from starbucks?!

 

[steph]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Excites me out of my mind, no contest...

 

[chrisheaven]

the brits here will know that a week long programme has just begun on channel called 'shattered' in which contestants compete for £100,000 by staying awake for one week without any sleep.

Without going in to too much detail the contestants are given tasks to cause them to sleep and tested to allow them to stay in the game. I think there is opportunity in this show for tickling to occur: maybe not as a challenge or task but as a technique to stay awake from your co-competitors. Tickling excites you, makes you laugh and so temporarily makes you alert. Any thoughts on this?

Could a five minute tickle first thing in the morning be more effective then a coffee from starbucks?!

anything is more effective than coffee from starbucks

 

[TickledToDeath]

Hmmmmmmmmm, a 5 dollar cup of coffee? Getting tickled for 5 minutes.

I'll take the tickling!😉 🙄


TTD

 

[steph]

ugh!

Please kids--no contest--one of these things makes your entire body tingle for hours and the other sends you to the bathroom and makes your teeth yellow--yuck! <gg>

 

[NeitherSparky]

Steph is right! I've actually thought about this myself on many an early, groggy morning: boy I could use a good tickle right now! 😉

~QHearts

 

[natural tickler]

personally, mocha cappuchino sounds nice right now...😀

 

[P50]

I Must be the weirdo.

For me, the right kind of tickling can...

-1- Relax
-2- Calm
-3- Induce Drowsiness

 

[crydun]

Up with tickles, down with Starbucks.

 

[njjen3953]

Re: ugh!

Please kids--no contest--one of these things makes your entire body tingle for hours and the other sends you to the bathroom and makes your teeth yellow--yuck! <gg>

Actually, if I were awakened by tickling, it would send me to the bathroom. 😉

 

[steph]

LOL Jen!

But still, that'd be way more fun, yes? Plus coffee gives bad breath--yuck!

 

[SmileyTkls]

And I can just hear the jingle for the cause: The best part of waking up is tickles on your bod! (Theme gratuitiously stolen from Folgers' Coffee) LOL.

Smiley,
serving the Starbucks of tickles 😀

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Having had occasion to be awake for 72 plus hours (while the ship was pitching and rolling in a storm doing forty degree rolls)I can attest that such a length of time without sleep made me one miserable son of a bitch. Tickling me in that state of mind would've indicated that you probably thought you could well do without five or six of the thirty two teeth in your mouth...

 

[TklrJoe]

Hey steph, give us coffee drinkers a break! I love coffee, and I take care of my teeth & breath!

😉

 

[sugarmouse]

I Must be the weirdo.

For me, the right kind of tickling can...

-1- Relax
-2- Calm
-3- Induce Drowsiness

sensual tickling can do that to me aswelll....but intense tickling would definitly work with the 'shattered' people i think!! lol😉

 

[steph]

oops

Begging your pardon Joey <gg> I wore braces for like 90 years, had to have oral surgery as a kid first, I was a mess. Now I'm a FREAK about my teeth--I brush about 6 times a day, yes I pay to have them bleached, the works.

I gotta say though--IMHO, you're in the minority. Most coffee drinkers seem to me completely unaware of how awful their teeth look and how much they reek, esp in the morning! Maybe you should teach a class! LOL!

Hey steph, give us coffee drinkers a break! I love coffee, and I take care of my teeth & breath!

😉

 

[starfires]

Not sure if it's allowed under the rules of the programme you are referring to, but I have used tickling to stay awake in the past. Driving across the State for three hours in the middle of the night after a very eventful weekend, I almost physically felt my consciousness slipping away on a few occasions. My passenger poked me in the ribs once in a while, and that helped a lot. I'm sure I would've totalled my car and slept right through it, otherwise.