What is it that makes us tickle?
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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. \n\nThat same ticklish feeling sends us into a state of panic and elicits a response of uncontrollable laughter if a person tickles us. It's the moment that you least expect to be tickled and are that causes you to feel extremely uneasy and panicked, which leads to the most intense ticklish feeling. Even if you do know that you are about to be tickled, the fear and unease of someone touching and possibly hurting you causes you to laugh. Some people are so ticklish that they begin laughing even before they are touched.
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Other than Ms Demanda (who is not weird), people can't because the brain "knows" where the tickling is going to occur and so isn't surprised. That's an antromorphic way of looking at it, but it is basically the answer.\n\nExperiments have been done on this (really) where people had a little gadget that when they pushed a button a little pokey thing would try and tickle them. It didn't work - unless there was a delay built into the device. In other words you push the button and the little pokey thing doesn't poke until 1.3 seconds later.
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From personal experience I believe that we lose the heightened awareness that affects tickling. Overall, the older I get, the less ticklish I am because I learn to ignore my senses. Hope that helps...
100774
We have this unbelievable attraction to everything we are not. We admire this creature that is rather lumpy and bumpy and has extensions in places where we honestly lack the equipment. We somehow are in awe of how this mechanism works. Fascination would be an understatement if I were to explain to you why we giggle and point and stare. \n\nThis creature's behavior? Quite a study! How can a creature this simple  be full of depth, romance, hope and need one day and forget exactly how he got there the next? Don't get me wrong. This is not a bad thing. To be so relaxed about life is something we women are also envious of. We are still trying to figure out how to predict the times when the "depth" comes into play. Many say it is in direct relationship to aformentioned "mechanism." \n\nBut it all comes down to one element that is a prerequisite in order for women to like men. They make us laugh. I can't explain it. The wit they offer just absolutely makes us laugh and enjoy in a way that no other creature can. Oh sure at other times we are laughing AT them........but laughing WITH them is what we adore and prefer. ;)\n\nSo these are the things we admire in this gender. Throughout the ages, women have tried to narrow down the reasons for this attraction. It was even thought at one time that we liked men because they were willing to eat anything we put in front of them. If you don't believe me..........just ask Eve. ;)
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lol for some reason that question just makes me wanna laugh. well im pretty ticklish so i guess i would be cracking up if my girlfriend tickles me and then i'd probally kick her in the face by accident. lol
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we "click"...\n\nWe laugh, we enjoy each others company, we have the same dreams, we WANT to be together... we both feel "tingles"...\n\n(you just KNOW when you are in love...)
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being ticklish is all in the head  i use to be very very ticklish  now I'm not at all if you want to make yourself laugh  look in the mirror and just start laughing and in seconds you well be truly laughing. and you''ll have a better out look on life. and it improves your moods.
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Feet for tickling. As for licking my earlobe or stomach.
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Ticklishness is a mind set. I turn it off most of the time cos I can't bear to be tickled; an uncle used to torture me by tickling me till I screamed. Concentrate on how light the persons touch is, how it makes you feel, you don't need drugs or creams, just relax into it.
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The human brain anticipates unimportant sensations, such as your own touch, so it can focus on important input like, say, a tarantula crawling up your neck. That might explain why it's hard to tickle yourself.\n\nFor a very comprehensive report on why you cannot tickle yourself, see http://www.hera.ucl.ac.uk/sml/publications/papers/BlaWolFri00.pdf
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The feeling of being tickled is a reaction of not wanting to be touched. This is why the exact same touch is ticklish from one person and not another. Laughing is the response to show that intellectually you don't mind but subconsciously you do.  Since your touching yourself you don't feel threatened.
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I love it, it gives me great tickles!!
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By tickling yourself, your body is already preparing itself for the feeling. It's the same way that you might jump when someone lays a hand on you in the dark, while putting your own hand on your arm does nothing to scare you. Your mind already knows what to expect.
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When we tickle ourselves, our mind knows in advance that is supposed to happen. So we develop some sort of a defence to counter the effect of the tickle.\nWhen somebody else tickles us suddenly our body is not prepared for that change of state.\n\n Even if u hit urself (not too hard) it pains lesser than when some body else hits u suddenly.
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Yes indeed its the most ticklish spot...\nNaah no one as yet.
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The excitement of not knowing exactly what is going to happen. You can enjoy it more if you just lay back and relax without having to do all the work. Probably the same reason why you can't tickle yourself. I don't know if I completely agree with that though...sometimes it feels better to touch myself than to have someone else do it lol.
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Mostly relaxes me.\nThe best is when l can laugh so much that tears come to my eyes.....then l get really 'spent' and relaxed!