How come when i tickle myself it doesn't tickle me??

Answer 1

ughh!this is so annoying lol i love being tickled but its so weird you cant do it to yourselff!

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle

Actually, you can but it won't end in that same kind of laughter/excitement. Just try pulling your fingers over your body very lightly and you'll get a sort of a...weird (for lack of a better term) sensation. It just depends on what you really mean by tickling.

I think that these two passages from the Wikipedia for tickling helps sum it up:

Some evidence suggests that laughing associated with tickling is a nervous reaction that can be triggered; indeed, very ticklish people often start laughing before actually being tickled.[8]

Charles Darwin theorized on the link between tickling and social relations, arguing that tickling provokes laughter through the anticipation of pleasure.[9] If a stranger tickles a child without any preliminaries, catching the child by surprise, the likely result will be not laughter but withdrawal and displeasure. Darwin also noticed that for tickling to be effective, you must not know the precise point of stimulation in advance, and reasoned that this is why you cannot effectively tickle yourself.

Answer 3

When a motor behavior of an individual is going to have an effect on the sensory systom of that same person, the sensory cortex is inhibited, thus we do have the tickling sensation.

Answer 4

so true!!!

Answer 5

because you know the tickling is from yourself and you know when you are gonna do it to yourself

Answer 6

because your body knows your going to tickle your self and it is preparing itself against it so it doesnt work

i heard the only way you can tickle yourself if by rubbing the back of your tongue on the roof of your mouth but it doesnt work for me so i dont think its true

Answer 7

you get arouse instead!

Answer 8

Much of the explanation for this question is still unknown, but research has shown that the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of a lot of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same as it would if someone else were to tickle us.  

Answer 9

Your body won't let you do too much to make you uncomfortable - just like if you were to slap yourself in the face, it wouldn't be as hard as if you did that to someone else because your body won't let you.

Answer 10

Most of us have a ticklish spot somewhere on our bodies, and it is usually pretty easy to find. For some it's just above the knee, for others it's the back of the neck, and some of us go into fits of laughter if someone grabs our sides. Laughing when another person tickles you is a natural reaction. Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural defense to little creepy crawlers like spiders and bugs. Slight tickles from insects can send a chill through your body letting you know something is crawling on you

Answer 11

i know i've tried it , me either. i think its because you know its coming but when you get tickled you usually dont and other peoples hands on you gives you these weird senses and it tickles more when you cant get them to stop but you cant really tickle your own nerves

Answer 12

This has to do with the free will associated with tickling. One experiment shows that, if instead of you consciously deciding when to tickle yourself you are given cues for when to "pinch", if you will, then it will tickle.

This involves watching someone elses hand doing some tickling and then mimicking that hand as closely as possible.

Answer 13

The same reason s*x is better with a partner.

Answer 14

because your brain knows what its going to do and where it will tickle you.

Answer 15

you can't tickle yourself because your brain is the one sending the message to tickle you, and the brain is also the one that says that something tickles. and since the brain already knows that you will tickle yourself, then it won't tickle.

Answer 16

your brain has the answer  

Answer 17

because you have full control of the situation.. so its pretty much just in your head, unlike when someone else tickels you, you don't know where or when and your expecting it to tickle.. its kind of in your head.  

Answer 18

i alwasy wanted to know

Answer 19

err... idk!

Answer 20

Tickling occurs in panic and is a natural defense makin you move around so the thing on you falls off. but you can't tickle yourself because your barin anticipates the touch so it is not going to panic

Answer 21

its because when you tickle yourself your brain knows its going to happen so it tells your body to ignore the signal of you tickling yourself

Answer 22

when my mother tickles me it tickles but n-e body else its nothing,The tickling sensation comes from contact of another person's finger for example: because the body reacts as a "i don't know what's happening here"... When you do it, your body does know where and when it will happen, what amount of pressure it will have and  etc.

Answer 23

Cuz you know that you can and will stop at anytime and know exactly how and where you will be tickled.

Answer 24

jjajajaja

life is unfair

lol!!

Answer 25

DUMB A$$ :)

Answer 26

your just not good at it.

Answer 27

Because you know its coming so you expect it to happen and tickling doesn't work if you know its gunna happen and its from yourself. I'll tickle you though! lol :P

xoxoBecca

pEaCe<3  

Answer 28

because know what is coming usually when your tickled by someone else it catches you by surprise...

Answer 29

Because when you tickle yourself your body knows it's you, not someone else's body part. So you don't responed.  

Answer 30

Being ticklish is the brain's defense against pain. When others tickle you, your brain doesn't know whether they're out to hurt you or not. But when you tickle yourself, you're not going to hurt yourself.