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The nature of the reaction human body tickling still has no solid explanation. Some scientists suggest that laughter, caused by exposure to sensitive areas of the skin, is the primary physiological expression of fear. Other researchers insist that the sensation of being tickled modern man from ancestors as a means of detecting harmful insects on the body.
Torture with laughter
There is documentary evidence that tickling was used in ancient times as an instrument of torture and punishment in Asian countries. The unfortunate man was tied up, his feet were smeared with something attractive to the cow, and she licked his heels until the criminal confessed to his deed. True, it is not known for certain what the person suffered more from - from tickling or from pain, because the surface of the cow's tongue could damage skin tissues.
Scientists do not deny the possibility of death from tickling, because nervous excitement can cause a spasm of the respiratory organs or even cardiac arrest. This outcome is most likely in people with epilepsy, asthma, or cardiovascular disease. However, a healthy body is able to independently control the sensitivity of skin receptors and regulate the body's response to such irritation, and in the history of modern medicine, not a single case of death from tickling has been recorded.
But death from uncontrollable laughter is quite possible. Numerous facts confirm this. For example, in 2003, a man in Taiwan died in a momentary fit of laughter that happened in a dream. The same fate befell Chrysippus, an ancient Greek philosopher who, for the sake of fun, made his donkey drink wine.
The most easily tickled body parts are the soles of the feet and armpits.
Uncontrollable laughter during tickling is still an unexplored phenomenon.
It is not possible for a person to provoke laughter on his own by tickling - the cerebellum gives nervous system signal, and she is ready not to respond to a false stimulus.
With age, a person becomes less susceptible to tickling, as the sensitivity of the skin weakens.
Not only people are afraid of tickling, but also some animals. So, in the course of experiments, it was found that rats and gorillas at the same time make certain sounds, although not similar to laughter, but having the same nature with it.
Hello everyone! Here's what I thought about today. There are such set expressions"die of laughter" and "tickle to death". So, is it possible to die from tickling? Is it realistic to tickle a person to death so that he dies of laughter? Not figuratively, but literally! Were there precedents in history? Maybe who knows? Awww, call back! By the way, are you ticklish? Why are some people not ticklish? Otherwise, I’m not at all afraid, death from tickling does not threaten me.
Why are some people not ticklish?
I think it's all about the level of sensitivity. Just like with pain. Everyone has their own threshold of pain, especially, it is different for men and women. The latter are more sensitive, so it is easy to make them laugh with tickling, and not only with it. Besides, men are simply better able to restrain themselves.
It is not appropriate for a stern man to show pain or fear, especially if it is a fear of such an inherently harmless tickling.
As for me, I, of course, feel touches on my body during the tickling, but nothing more. I always notice that I'm about to be tickled, even before the process itself begins. Perhaps the brain, realizing this, in a certain way adjusts itself and groups the body so as not to experience any fear of this seemingly innocent prank.
For this very reason, we are not ticklish when we try to tickle ourselves. British scientists confirm the fact that the human brain differentiates between expected and unexpected touches, thereby suppressing the response to self-tickling. By the way, some still manage to tickle themselves, but they are diagnosed with schizophrenia.
How to tickle a person who is not afraid of being tickled?
To the question of how to tickle a person who is not ticklish, I have several answers. Option one - silently: you tickle him as much as you want, only this will make him neither hot nor cold.
Option two: try to tickle him suddenly, on the sly, so to speak. You can also ask a person to do this, from whom the victim definitely does not expect tickling.
Option three: tickle such a person in the most “ticklish” places. There is an opinion that such places are those that were the most vulnerable in the battle: these are the feet (still that “Achilles heel”) and armpits (the vein and artery in this place lead directly to the heart). They are followed by the neck, chest.
What will happen to a person if you tickle him for a long time?
So without thinking twice, I went straight to the point. I decided to tickle my girlfriend to death, otherwise she got up on the wrong foot again today. And he tickled her for a long time, not stopping and not paying attention to her “Enough!”. So she immediately laughed, and then she took it and burst into tears, I was just scared. I had to interrupt the experiment and turn to theory. It turned out that tickling is an unconscious defensive reaction of our body, which was inherited by us in the process of Darwinian evolution from our smaller brothers and served as a clear way for them to detect the presence of "strangers" (unsafe insects) on their skin.
Therefore, our brain still perceives tickling as a signal of a potential threat. So why are we neighing like horses when they tickle us?
All the same scientists found out that tickling laughter has nothing to do with fun, it's just the body's reaction to excessive nervous strain. And the father of the so-called associative psychology, David Hartley, generally calls tickling laughter interrupted by “incipient crying.” It turns out that the phrases “to be afraid of being tickled” and “to tickle your nerves” are quite justified. Now, both in practice and in theory, I know what will happen to a person if he is tickled for a long time - he will definitely burst into tears and fall into hysterics. But what would happen if I continued the tickling torture?
ticklish torture
In the history of mankind, there were still precedents for the use of tickling as bodily torture. Also in Ancient Rome the feet were dipped in a saline solution, and then they were allowed to lick it to the goats. Yes perishing, very perverted torture. Rumor has it that the Nazis also did not neglect tickling with goose feathers as corporal punishment. About whether there were among those who experienced what tickling torture is, deaths, history is silent.
Consequences of tickling
When I turned to my doctor friend with the question of whether it is possible to die from tickling? He replied that from the tickling itself - no, but from its consequences, which are sometimes difficult to foresee - hypothetically, yes, although in fact such cases have not been recorded.
The effects of being tickled can range from positive (think of how children love to be tickled or the sensation of being touched by a loved one) or negative. Today there is even such a direction as tickling therapy. We get pleasure from tickling because in the body in stressful situations(and tickling is just that) there is a surge of adrenaline - a hormone responsible for the instinct of self-preservation. As a result of such overexcitation, vasoconstriction occurs and, accordingly, an increase in pressure.
The human body, especially prone to prolonged tickling, greatly overstrains in trying to get rid of an external stimulus, and each subsequent, even a very light touch, is accompanied by a fit of uncontrollable laughter and leads to spasms and muscle cramps, often accompanied by pain. The muscles of the respiratory system are also exposed to this effect, and this is already extremely dangerous, especially for people who have problems with the heart or respiratory organs.
What can you die instantly from?
Prolonged tickling can cause a spasm in the lungs, from which you can suffocate, or a cardiac arrest, from which you can die instantly. That's "tickle to death" for you. Now I'm ticklish too, even when it's not ticklish, and it's not even funny.
How to tickle a person?
As scientists already familiar to us say, there are two types of tickling: knismesis (light touches) and gargalesis (rough impact on places on the human body that are vulnerable to tickling). Hmm, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for me too! So, unstoppable laughter, involuntary convulsive contraction of muscles and diaphragms occur only with gargalesis, so if you have a question, how to tickle a person correctly so as not to harm him , tickle him very gently and not for very long.
With tenderness, however, also do not overdo it too much, because there is also such a fetish as knismolagnia - sexual arousal from tickling.
By the way, the notorious scientists have found the center of tickling in the brain of experimental rats, and apes even laugh when they are tickled. Now watch the tickle video and please don't die laughing!
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Psychologists tried to get from them what, after all, is so unpleasant for them during tickling - it doesn’t hurt. Many could not unequivocally answer this question - the sensation caused by tickling contained pleasure and disgust at the same time. In European textbooks on the art of love, tickling is strictly taboo. Tickling can kill even a very strong erotic feeling. However, Eastern peoples tickling is an exquisite caress that can bring a partner to orgasm. Chinese women tickle the feet of partners, exciting them before sexual intercourse (remember the invincible Achilles, whose only weak point was part of the foot - the heel; the vulnerability of the hero, quite possibly, is due to his fear of tickling). In Muslim countries, where women wear long hair, not a single erotic caress is complete without tickling the male body with the tips of female hair. In Southeast Asia, erotic games are accepted, according to the rules of which partners dance, sharply poking each other with their nails. This injection in the armpits resembles an insect bite and is very exciting for both partners.
It is not difficult to guess that in addition to enjoyment, tickling can also be terrible torture. It is said that a person can be tickled to death. Quite possible. It is interesting that a person cannot “tickle” himself with emotions. Thus, a special part of the brain - the cerebellum - protects us from the emergence of addiction to self-tickle. And since the brain protects, it means that this process is not so innocent.
If a person is tickled for a long time, then the surface of his body becomes hyperexcitable, light touches, even with a feather, can cause severe pain, then convulsions and spasms of the muscles responsible for breathing occur. The person begins to choke and eventually dies. Tickle torture was widely used in antiquity. For example, in Vietnam there was a very unusual torture. The heels of the victim were smeared with some delicacy adored by a cow or a mule. The animal licked its heels for several hours, after which the interrogated person either confessed or died. On the islands of the Indian Ocean, severely delinquent women were punished very subtly. On the most sensitive place of the breast - the nipples - they planted a small harmless bug and covered it with an egg shell or a large nut shell. The touch of tiny legs to the skin caused such painful sensations that the victims even lost consciousness.
Eastern intelligence agencies are training their super agents not to be ticklish. Japanese samurai were not afraid of tickling - this is historical fact. Buddhist monks are also ticklish. How did they manage to eradicate this ancient animal reflex? Psychologists believe that victory over tickling is a kind of willpower training necessary for self-discipline and success in any business. The absence of the tickle reflex can be achieved by learning to control your thoughts, emotions and feelings. Here are exercises to help you with this:
1. Relax and imagine in full detail that someone is tickling you in certain places. Just thinking about it can give you goosebumps. Think of something else, pleasant or neutral, and then imagine yourself being tickled again. Repeat this exercise for several days until the goosebumps stop appearing.
2. Ask someone close to put your hand on the most ticklish place. Just put it on and hold for a few minutes. After the reflex tenses your whole body, force yourself to relax, feel the heaviness, warmth, roughness of the hand.
3. Ask someone to tickle you. Feel the touch. Breathe deeply, think that you are no longer ticklish. Relax as much as possible.
Now you have become even a little stronger in spirit. Now tickling your body is not at all interesting, however, like your nerves.
