You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the sensation before it happens, eliminating the surprise element that is necessary for the tickling sensation to occur; when someone else tickles you, your brain cannot predict the exact sensation, creating the feeling of surprise that results in tickling.
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Did you know there's one person you can never properly tickle? Yourself. Sounds strange, right? When someone else tickles you, your brain doesn't know exactly what will happen next. That surprise creates the tickling sensation. But when you try to tickle yourself, your brain knows what's coming. It's not that you can't tickle yourself. Your brain just knows it's you. Your own brain is literally too smart to trick itself.
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