You cannot tickle yourself, no matter how you try, because your brain predicts the touch of your own hand and cancels the sensation before you feel it

Run your own fingers across your palm and almost nothing happens. Brain scans suggest the reason sits in the cerebellum, which forecasts the feel of your own movements and quietly subtracts it. The post You cannot tickle yourself, no matter how you try, because your brain predicts the touch of your own hand and cancels the sensation before you feel it appeared first on Space Daily .