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Mystery #1Tier 2-3brain / movement

Why can't you tickle yourself?

Get a friend to wiggle their fingers on the sole of your foot and you squirm and giggle helplessly. Now try doing the exact same thing to yourself, with your own fingers, in the very same spot. Nothing. No giggle, no squirm. Same skin, same touch, so why does the tickle vanish when you are the one doing it?

A soft feather, the classic tickle that somehow never works on yourself.
Photo: Joao Estevao Andrade de Freitas · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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