Why do some people become less ticklish as they get older?

[CrystalLight]

please tell me/us about your experience

steve

Only because you asked so nicely.

It was probably one of the most comforting experiences I've ever had before. And I can assure you that everytime it was done, it never once made me MORE ticklish.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

a much different experience with hypnosis

hey crystallight. as i have posted many times here, my wife under went hypnosis, with great, and complete success!
my big theory would revolve around wether you were truely in a hypnotic state, if you were completely accepting of the suggestion, or if the hypnosis using therapist was qualified and knew what they were doing.
other than my wife, i have met 3 others who have undergone hypnosis to increase their sensitivity to ticklish stimuli, and one other person who used hypnosis to decrease their ticklishness. all got more than satisfactory results
so, were you truely reseptive? was it a reputable therapist? was the goal to increase your ticklishness? what method was used?
i eagerly await your reply!

steve

 

[Deleted member 2452]

OK people... Lets reel it back in.

The only way hypnosis is going to help tickling is if you are trying to tickle someone who had a traumatic event in their life with it and have repressed shit in their head and has anxiety from being tickled and then using hypnotherapy that could help work through something like that... Which isnt making someone more ticklish.


AND FOR THE RECORD:

There also is no tickling pill, spray, ray, drink, wand, spell, you have seen in tickling artwork or read in a story that makes you more ticklish either.

basicly, you are wrong. simple as that. just plain wrong.

steve

 

[CrystalLight]

so, were you truely reseptive?

Very much so.

was it a reputable therapist?

Everyone's opinion on one's ability is going to be varied. If you're asking me if he knew what he was doing? Then yes. Extremely 'reputable'.

was the goal to increase your ticklishness?

No, because wasting time to attempt something not possible is a bit of a waste of a good bout of hypnosis.

If you'd like to continue this discussion, steve, then make a new thread about it. This discussion is not about hypnosis making one more ticklish, it's about becoming less ticklish with age. We need not derail the thread.

 

[prestidigits]

I can say that this is not true for me...I've not lost any ticklishness at all. I'm just as ticklish now as I ever have been. The same is true for my mother, who swears she's more ticklish now than she used to be.

I want to meet you--as I get older I'm becoming increasingly unimpressed with infants! Age is sexy! Add ticklishness, I'M THERE!

 

[chickles_:)]

I am another who is more ticklish. Part of that may that I was not tickled in some of my very ticklish areas until I was older. I suppose that I will eventually lose ticklishness as part of the aging process but I know some elderly people are still quite ticklish

Hiya!
As I've read the many fine replies to an interesting question, I find myself wondering if it's been true for me too or not. And to be honest it's kind of hard to say - I was pretty ticklish as a girl so it's tough to know if there's mcuh difference.

Still, I do know that my reactions have kind of, well, sine-waved I guess you could say. What I mean is that some of my ticklish feeling is affected by who is tickling me, what my mood is, how tired I am, what else i've been up to lately, and in some cases when i really did not want to be tickled I have noticed a fade in the sensation compared to times when I really wanted it.😛 So I guess I wonder if any of those type of things can affect us on a bigger scale over many years.
Does that make sense? 😱

Many blessings,
chickles

 

[Merkle'sBoner]

No. It's basic common sense. I've partaken in brief scenarios that involved hypnotism. It does nothing to "increase" one's ticklishness.

The hell you say! I've seen the clips! 😀

 

[Hiphophooray2]

is there proof of that? Are there any proof that it does?

 

[bluey1]

In my experience, people DON'T become less ticklish as they get older. I think they just get tickled less or because they are stronger, they can get away from the tickler more easily.

I last tickled my mum's feet briefly in 2022. She was 70 by then. But her feet were just as sensitive and as ticklish as they were back in the '90s and early 2000s when she was in her early 40s-early 50s and we used to tickle her feet.