Answer this. If you are ticklish.............................................?

Question

then why can you not just tickle yourself?? That's right...........you can't!! But, do you know what the mental process is that stops you from being ticklish from your own hand?? (OK, doubt me.... go ahead and get it over with.......there, see, nothing happened did it??) First 'real' answer gets 10 points.

Buzzy

Nice answer, Uni, and right on the mark. Harder stuff to follow. But, this was not supposed to be an 'open book' test. There is a difference between just reciting the 'clinical' definition and understanding the implications associated with this behavior. ;-)

Nice try Ozz, but not quite the same. The bottom of the human foot, much like the other bipeds, are very sensitive to 'any' touch. This is rather a protection mechanism than a tickle sensation. The nerve endings in the bottom of your feet are extra sensitive and you perceive this as a 'tickle' reflex, which it is really not.

Answer 1

But tickling is a pleasure that ‘cannot be reproduced in the absence of another’ as Adam Phillips wrote. The inability to tickle oneself seems to be hard-wired in the central nervous system: the brain reacts differently when people tickle themselves compared with when someone else does the tickling. The areas of the cerebral cortex associated with the sensation of touch (the somatosensory cortex) and pleasure (the anterior cingulate cortex) react much more strongly to a tickling stimulus delivered by an external agent than to a self-tickle. This hard-wired mechanism suggests that tickling is useful in social bonding — there is little point in social bonding with oneself.

Common Buzz give me something harder.
Peace
Unicorn

Answer 2

Buzzy, I promise you that, I am probably the most ticklish person EVER!
I am so ticklish that Everybody I know are VERY aware that if they come any where near my feet!
There will be trouble.
And, I have much trouble everyday when I shower, I have difficuilty washing my feet because I in fact do tickle myself!
FACT!! LOL! I SWEAR IT IS TRUE!! ♥

I cannot believe that other people can't tickle themselves!
If I touch the bottom of my foot, it tickles something bad!!
I have always been like this.

Answer 3

As much as I'd like the points, I don't know why one cannot tickle one's self. However, you are correct. It is impossible to tickle yourself, but others can do it to you. I'll be interested to see the other answers. Good question.

Answer 4

HAHHAHA, this is a funny question.
very true though.

i dont get tickled by my own hand 'cause i already know that i'm doing it!