Who feels ticklish ?

Question

Why do we feel ticklish when somebbody else tickles us and why we don't when we tickle ourselves ?

Answer 1

Dear friend,

We are human beings, which a dynamic creature of God. We react in equal & opposite direction, particularly when somebody tickles us. But we don't feel ticklish (in awkward position) when we tickle outself. One would never be critical to oneself, of course, for others this rule doesn't apply.

Answer 2

When a person touches “ticklish” body parts on their own bodies, most people measure no tickling sensation. It is thought that the tickling requires a certain amount of surprise, and because tickling one’s self produces no unexpected motion on the skin, the response is not activated. A recent analysis of the “self-tickle” response has been addressed using MRI technology. Blakemore and colleagues have investigated how the brain distinguishes between sensations we create for ourselves and sensations others create for us. When the subjects used a joystick to control a "tickling robot", they could not make themselves laugh. This suggested that when a person tries to tickle him- or herself, the cerebellum sends to the somatosensory cortex precise information on the position of the tickling target and therefore what sensation to expect. Apparently an unknown cortical mechanism then decreases or inhibits the tickling sensation. A small percentage of people however, have found it possible to tickle themselves.

Answer 3

Because we can control ourselves. And I'm not ticklish haha, tickling actually kinda hurts me.