Why cant you tickle yourself?

Question

I have heard time and time again that its because you know you are going to be tickled. The problem with this theory is that I can sit someone in front of me and they can move toward me to tickle me (and I know they are going to tickle me) and it tickles anyway. I pretty much know the answer, I want to know what you all think.

Answer 1

we cant tickle ourself bcoz our sensory system has been used to ur sense of touch
our sensory system knows wen tat its our touch
wen some one else tuches ud we feel like tikled bcoz the sensory system is not used to tat touch
simple

Answer 2

I think it is to do with expectations and the thrill of the unkown. They are physically violating you, even though it is in a friendly way and you have no control over it. I can run my finger over my tummy lightly and giggle though. It tickles and I know I am doing it but I think tickling is an annoyance and it straddles that very fine line between pleasure and pain which is what makes it so exhilerating.

Answer 3

Tickling is weird. Probably known since the dawn of mankind, the process was only studied for the last one hundred and twenty years or so.

Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin were the first to report two types of touch known as tickling. It was Charles Darwin who first proposed that the site of the tickling could not be known in advance if the tickle was to be successful.

If you attempt to tickle yourself, the site is always known.

Answer 4

i think of its abit of the two to be honest. you're physique is watching for it, and knows what its gonna sense like, as a result your no longer taken aback nor tickled Like while somebody else tickles you, you notice it coming yet your physique does no longer comprehend how complicated, mushy etc.. its going to be nicely...Thats what i think of besides

Answer 5

i always wondwered this to. maybe we're using a muscle to tickle ourselves, so were not relaxed enough to be tickled.