{"id":4345,"date":"2011-01-30T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:42:59","slug":"being-tickled-produces-a-panic-response-within-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/being-tickled-produces-a-panic-response-within-your-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Tickled Produces a Panic Response Within Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tickle-panic-response.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4346\" title=\"tickle-panic-response\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tickle-panic-response.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tickle-panic-response.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tickle-panic-response-340x311.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why It's Impossible to Tickle Yourself\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/why-it-is-nearly-impossible-to-tickle-yourself\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Can&#8217;t Tickle Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It turns out, the panic response when a tarantula is crawling on your leg or the like is exactly what is happening when you are getting tickled.\u00a0 The body\u2019s response to being tickled is panic and anxiety.\u00a0 It is thought that this is a defense mechanism for exactly the type of thing listed above where an external touch, such as a poisonous insect crawling on you or the like, might be occurring.\u00a0 The body needs to react quickly to this unanticipated touch and without time for much conscious thought, so produces the panic reaction. Interestingly, the panic reaction that results from tickling doesn\u2019t feel like tickling when the person tickling you isn\u2019t someone you want tickling you.\u00a0 In this case, it more closely resembles actual panic reactions, rather than having associated laughter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Can&#8217;t Tickle Yourself Text Version It turns out, the panic response when a tarantula is crawling on your leg or the like is exactly what is happening when you are getting tickled.\u00a0 The body\u2019s response to being tickled is panic and anxiety.\u00a0 It is thought that this is a defense [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[790,1232,1233],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-medical-facts","tag-panic-tickle","tag-tickle-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}