Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 1: Avoiding Common Misconceptions
• Tips
• Warnings

Tickling ourselves can be very difficult because the cerebellum (at the back of our brain), which is responsible for our movements, can predict when we're going to tickle ourselves. However, it is possible to simulate a little tickling instead of full tickling, which makes us laugh uncontrollably.

Steps

1. 1 Tickle your palate with your tongue. Lightly rub your tongue across the palate in a circular motion to create a tickling sensation. There is no definitive explanation as to why this method works, even though the parts of our brains that are responsible for sensing sensations are less active when "self-tickling".
2. 2 Use a feather or similar lightweight object. You will need an object that you can easily slide over the surface of your skin in areas where tickling is especially easy, such as on your feet or neck.That said, and it won't create the same sensation that you get when someone else tickles you, because you can't fool your brain!
   • Light touch stimulates the somatosensory cortex, which is responsible for sensing touch, and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is responsible for pleasant sensations. Together, these two parts of the brain are responsible for the sensation of tickling, but only with light touch. As many people know, tickling too much can hurt!
   • You can also try brushing your feet with a bristly comb.
   • You can make your own tickling device by gluing a few feathers to a small stick. You can use this simple device to tickle yourself.
   • If you press too hard on your skin, you won't feel the tickling sensation. Make sure you try to tickle yourself with very light strokes.
3. 3 Run your fingers over your skin in circular motions. This does not always work, but some people may feel a slight tickling sensation when they barely touch their skin with their fingertips and move them in a circle.
   • The best places to do this are the inside of the elbows, the neck, and the back of the knees.

Method 1 of 1: Avoiding Common Misconceptions

1. 1 Don't try to tickle yourself by putting something in your ear. This is a very bad idea, as you can damage your ear; plus it won't work. The ears are no more ticklish than the rest of the body.
2. 2 Don't try to tickle yourself by pretending that you are not using your hand. Scientists conducted experiments in which they tricked the human brain into believing that the plastic hand on the table in front of them was their own. Even so, people couldn't tickle themselves.
   • However, people with schizophrenia can usually tickle themselves, most likely because their brains cannot predict sensory sensations from their own movements.
3. 3 Don't try to tickle yourself with your nails. The root of this misconception is the belief that you cannot tickle yourself because you feel with your fingertips that you are tickling yourself by sending this information to your brain, and that if you try to tickle yourself with your nails, your brain is not about it. learns, which is of course not true.
   • This belief is not true, because the problem is that your brain already knows in advance what is about to happen. Successful tickling relies on the element of surprise, but we cannot prepare such a surprise for our brains.

Tips

• When you try to tickle yourself with another part of your body (fingers, etc.) it may not work, so try tickling yourself with a foreign object.
• Try wearing something very fine and then tickling yourself.
• You will feel a stronger tickling sensation if you tickle yourself with light objects, such as a feather.

Warnings

• Be careful with sharp and thin objects.
• If you don't succeed, remember that tricking your brain and catching it off guard on your own is very difficult (but necessary for tickling).