[driven]

Can anyone else tickle themselves?

For whatever reason my feet are very sensitive. Rubbing them together or even rubbing them on carpet without slippers is extremely ticklish. It's not quite as bad on other parts of my body. My wife thinks it's hilarious. However from talking to others this is apparently sort of rare.

Does anyone else's body respond like this? Or am I simply weird?

[Rev-O]

Should make it a poll.
Nutter.

[SpaceMonkey]

My ex-girlfriend had this problem.

[hickey]

is that why shes your ex

[- - e r i k - -]

Nutter. Apparently very rare:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Self-tickle

Knismesis may in fact represent a vestige of the primitive grooming response, in effect; knismesis serves as a “non-self detector” and protects the subject against foreign objects. Perhaps due to the importance of knismesis in protection, this type of tickle is not dependent on the element of surprise and it is possible for one to induce self-knismesis, by light touching.[12]
Gargalesis, on the other hand, produces an odd phenomenon, 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.[12] 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.[19] A small percentage of people however, have found it possible to tickle themselves.

[driven]

Hence, no poll.

No sense reinforcing my own eccentricities with solid numbers.

[climber]

I think some of those scientists spent way to much time touching themselves in the pursuit of knowledge.

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by climber 

I think some of those scientists spent way to much time touching themselves in the pursuit of knowledge.

I pursue knowledge every day.

[Teronzhul]

Yes I can. Both my feet and my stomach. I have many times thought that I may be the most easily tickled person on Earth.

[flyordiedays]

My stomach and feet are sensitive, but it's nowhere near the same sensation as for someone else to tickle me.

[Jawbone54]

I can tickle my feet to the point that I laugh out loud. I can also tickle my neck.

[climber]

If you can tickle yourself, then maybe you have not been touching yourself often enough. Likewise the cure for being ticklish to the touch of others is more touching.

I am actively seeking that cure!

[flyordiedays]

Originally Posted by climber 

maybe you have not been touching yourself often enough.

Derailment in 3...2...

[climber]

Originally Posted by flyordiedays 

Derailment in 3...2...

The thread is about tickling yourself. What would you expect???

[flyordiedays]

Easy, killer, I wasn't being critical. I was amused.

[phantomdragonz]

my girlfriend is not ticklish, total bummer when I am VERY ticklish... there is no way to fight back... although I do warn her that if I end up hitting her it's her own damn fault!
=D

Zach

[Kevin]

I can. I can also make myself sneeze!

BTW a sneeze is the closest you can come to an orgasm without actually having one.

You could say they were cousins.

[mdc]

Originally Posted by phantomdragonz 

my girlfriend is not ticklish, total bummer when I am VERY ticklish... there is no way to fight back... although I do warn her that if I end up hitting her it's her own damn fault!
=D


Zach

that sounds like my house. I'm not ticklish but my wife is *really* ticklish. I've been hit a few times.