| TheSquealer |
04-21-2014 06:31 AM |
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Originally Posted by Mutt
(Post 20056088)
What do studies say being able or not being able to tickle one's self says about a person?
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Schizophrenics can tickle themselves. We cannot. Things only "tickle" when they are unpredictable. You cannot "self tickle" as you cannot make it unpredictable. Think about tickling someone and how it must be random, unpredictable motions and works better when accompanied by random sounds to ad further confusion. You cannot do this to yourself. Schizophrenics have issues with sensory input timing, creating the sensation of unpredictability.
Your brain actively distorts time and the timing of sensory input to maintain a proper alignment of the perceptions of cause and effect. For example, hold out your hand and touch your index finger to your nose. Your perception is that you experienced the touch sensation on your finger and nose at the same time, but the reality is that the signal takes a many times longer to travel from your finger to the brain for processing than from your nose to the brain for processing... (close to 1/2 a second difference) and your brain is actively distorting the timing of both to properly align the sensations. Much of our daily perceptual experience is based on a large number of complex illusions, generated internally... and the illusions are so powerful that we will all remain ever insistent that our own perceptions are the only correct perceptions... this is true, even of a diagnosed schizophrenic who knows full well that he's a schizophrenic. |
