Why you can't tickle yourself, and why we are all ticklish?

[Eztickle]

Why we are ticklish ? A question we have ponderd for years,and why we all can't tickle ourselves? Questions we havn't realy had the anwers too yet, and we have all be pondering them since childhood. I have been researching the whole issue and I have found many answers one is. Tickling is a early form of sex play. Yes, when were were all children we would show afection with each other through playful tickling. Science has proven that early homosapians also tickled each other as a form of sexuly comunication. The reason why we are all ticklish is simply this? The body has a defense mechanism- to be tickled is one of them. When an attractive lady tickles the foot of a helpless young boy 😉 or a guy tickles girl vis/versa the Humen body reacts by teling you hey that tickles, and the body jerks away. Smothness and ruffness of fingertips effescts the tickling process both ways. for instance, a women with long fingernails tickles your foot. It tickles like hell for a few minuttes but after the inatial feeling hits you it almost starts to scratch you after a while, and you loose the whole tickling feeling. This is fact for the most part. Another example a guy with rough fingertips tickles the foot of a young girl very aggressively at first. She jumps and screams for about 3 or four minnutes, but then the feeling goes away in that area and she has stop laughing. I'm shue a lot of you guy's had that happen? I'm not much of tickler my self but I will do it from time to time.🙂I'm more of a ticklee from all the cute girls I will explain why. For instance, if the girlfrend catches her boyfriend in his sleep and I have had this happen 😉 she has smooth fingertips that just flow across the skin. You know real smooth feeling fingetips. If she tickles those barfeet feet I don't care how ticklish most of you are your going to yelp and scream for a while because fingertips that are real smooth never stop tickling😉 It's like a tonge between your toes or a feather that tickles like hell right? Well that is what it is like when a girl with smooth fingertips gets a hold of your barfeet or underarms because you can't realy block it out. Because it never gets ruff 😉 The reason we can't tickle ourselves is becaue the body's central nervous system will never allow you to tickle yourself because the body says hey !! that is your hand tickling you ! it will never tickle because you own hand does no harm to the body and your defense mechanism dosn't see it as a treat!! Now, everyone has there own reason that they think, but I have actuly read this in different science books over the years. Well that is some rattlin on for everone- Enjoy and post replys ..

Ez..

 

[tummyticklish01]

Makes sense to me, except not everyone is ticklish

 

[tklr5150]

Makes sense to me, except not everyone is ticklish

true . . those poor bastards

thank goodness we're not among them, eh?

 

[smiley_orchid]

what about the people who can tickle themselves? i know that it isn't that extreme of a feeling, but there are people (i'm on of them!!) that can get that tickle-y feeling just be gentle and lightly brushing my fingertips on certain areas of my body, ie, waistline, inner arms, calves, soles.... ya know? i know that i'm not going to harm me, so if that theory is correct, why would i be able to do that? other then that, i think that what you said makes sense!

 

[Eztickle]

tickling yourself.

well smiley orchid getting that tickly feeling as you put it and truly tickling yourself is completly two different things. Yes we all have been able to get that easy tickly feeling from time time but none of us has ever been able to truely tickle ourselves to the point of uncontrolable laughter like we find ourselves when being truly tickled. That is my Point. Hope that clears that up for you.

Ez..

 

[BigJim]

what about the people who can tickle themselves? i know that it isn't that extreme of a feeling, but there are people (i'm on of them!!) that can get that tickle-y feeling just be gentle and lightly brushing my fingertips on certain areas of my body, ie, waistline, inner arms, calves, soles.... ya know? i know that i'm not going to harm me, so if that theory is correct, why would i be able to do that? other then that, i think that what you said makes sense!

As far as I know, the only people who can "truly" tickle themselves are schizophrenics.

 

[Novus]

I also have the ability to tickle myself. I can tickle myself and not just that tickle-y feeling but real tickling. I used to have the ability to tickle every part of my body but now I can only still do it to the soles of my feet.

 

[tcrewme]

Baby Oil

"Smothness and ruffness of fingertips effescts the tickling process both ways. for instance, a women with long fingernails tickles your foot. It tickles like hell for a few minuttes but after the inatial feeling hits you it almost starts to scratch you after a while, and you loose the whole tickling feeling. "

Baby or Olive Oil is great for keeping the feet from getting that scratching feeling. The oil keeps the skin from drying out from the nails or brushes running over them constantly. And the oil allows your fingers to glide over the soles and in between toes much easier than dry feet.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

why ask why...?

i say accept, give thanks, and enjoy!
i'll only add this; ticklish people make the best lovers.

steve

 

[BigJim]

Re: why ask why...?

i say accept, give thanks, and enjoy!
i'll only add this; ticklish people make the best lovers.

steve

I'll tell that to the next girl who laughs at me.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

i believe everyone is ticklish, it's just some people are able to sorta turn off, so to speak. see i have 2 cousins who are like that. we tickle each other all the time, and they're as ticklish as me, but they're able to block it and i can't. (which works in their favor and not mine! 🙁 )

 

[ericr]

I'm another guy who can tickle himself. It's certainly not as intense as another pereson tickling me, but it's more than a tickly feeling. It really tickles.

 

[f/f]

unture I TOUCH MY SELF AND IT TICKLES . so u can tickle urself people

 

[f/f]

i meant untrue ! LOL

 

[Tickling Motty]

I too like others can get that tickley feeling to the point where i can feel it tickle and my reaction is to move the body part away. It only really happens on my feet, anywhere else and it doesnt really tickle

Andy

 

[Novus]

The only reason I can't tickle myself as intensely as when another person tickles me is that I don't have the mental discipline to keep tickling myself.

 

[tklr5150]

I can usuaully tickle my feet to the point of true ticklishness, though without laughter. The only time I ever tickled myself to the point of a laugh was when I hit a spot just above my hip once, but I haven't been able to do it exactly right since.

 

[evilqueen]

I'm able to tickle myself. Though it's not like being tickled by someone else, it's hard to tolerate as I know all my worst spots best. 😉

Why can some of us tickle ourselves?

A) Maybe we have more sensitive skin than average and are more susceptible to all sensations, including tickling.

B) Maybe "not able to tickle yourself" is the norm, and being able to tickle yourself is a sign of mental illness; however, not schizophrenic as BigJim suggests, but a condition called dissociative mind, which is often present in multiple personality disorder. (As with autism, I believe very mild cases of dissociative mind manifest in many people; and as with depression, I believe it manifests among many people who display artistic abilities, and in both cases the state of mind may actually augment the ability. IMHO. 🙂

C) Maybe we're just such damn fine ticklers we can even do ourselves.

EQ

 

[BigJim]

Hmmmm, interesting thoughts EQ.

From what I've learned on the subject, tickling yourself may tickle slightly but it not even in the same street as being tickled someone else. The skin may be sensitive, but you can't truly tickle yourself to the pont of hyterics. Believe it or not, scientific studies have been undertaken in this area. The thing the scientists believe stops you tickling yourself genuinely is that your brain knows what is going to happen because of the impulses being sent to the hand, so it shuts it off. Because it's happening in your own body, this can be done, wheras it can't if someone else tickles you, even if you know what they're about to do.

Schizophrenics on the other hand can TRULY tickle themselves because of their split personalities. Because they brain/mind is shut off into different compartments, the brain can't send the signal through to numb the impulse nerves. I don't fully understabnd this theory, but it's true that's it's the result of scientific work.

 

[evilqueen]

I have't seen the study you mention, but I haven't heard anything that proves one must be schizophrenic in order to tickle oneself. Hysteria wouldn't be the only result that proves it's tickling, either, as that's not the measure between two people, so it wouldn't be used for just one. That would be like saying that you can't hurt yourself by slapping your own face because you'd probably stop before you reach the point of tears. A slap still stings, and a tickle still tickles. 😎

 

[BigJim]

I have't seen the study you mention, but I haven't heard anything that proves one must be schizophrenic in order to tickle oneself. Hysteria wouldn't be the only result that proves it's tickling, either, as that's not the measure between two people, so it wouldn't be used for just one. That would be like saying that you can't hurt yourself by slapping your own face because you'd probably stop before you reach the point of tears. A slap still stings, and a tickle still tickles. 😎

True, but someone who shrieks with laughter at the lightest touch on their ribs or hips won't if they di it themselves. It might tickle, but the mind still numbs the sensation somewhat.

 

[evilqueen]

But whether or not I shriek with laughter depends on who's touching me, and under what circumstances, so it's not a reliable measure. It's my experience that I can tickle myself, so it's not likely a study will convince me otherwise. 😎

 

[BigJim]

I would take my own gut feeling over a scientific study any day EQ, so I won't quibble with you on that one.😀

 

[smiley_orchid]

studies...

i remember reading somewhere (i can't for the life of me remember where, though... 🙁 ) what kinda of study was done... it went something like the subject had a box put over their foot, and there was something sticking in it like a toothbrush which touched the bottom of the foot. it was moveable... with a handle sticking out. first the subject had to move the handle back and forth, hence brushing the brush over the foot. then some other person moved the handle back and forth.... THEN the subject was held down (or was it blindfolded? damn... can't remember that either...) and someone brushed the handle back and forth. the subjects reaction was sll compared with each other and yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah... hmm....

 

[Deleted member 2452]

as i see it ...

many folks can tickle them selves, with a laughter response. most others can't. the degree to the response seems to be the sticking point. i have one spot on my body that if i use a "special" tickle tool on, i will laugh. not as much as when a nice generous lady does it for me, god knows, but i can make myself laugh. another problem is i can't continue with the tickling, to any effective degree once i start to laugh. so it's a bit of a catch 22.
so really, it's a matter of degrees, or of samantics.
steve