“As the host of Wheel of Fortune, Pat has entertained millions of viewers across America for 40 amazing years,” said Suzanne Prete, executive vp game shows at Sony Pictures Television, which produces Wheel of Fortune. But you may not know whether you have such a condition until it’s too late, so it’s probably best not to let someone tickle you until you pass out."It's Too Hot on the Page!": Tony Gilroy, Sharon Horgan and the THR Showrunner Roundtable So when Benjamin’s friends held him down and tickled him, even though he gave them permission, this survival instinct kicked in and he laughed himself into unconsciousness.įortunately, it seems that laughter alone can’t kill you, as IO9 reported that in the rare cases that people laughed themselves to death, they had underlying health conditions. The fact that many ticklish spots are especially vulnerable if attacked - the neck, the abdomen, the armpits - lends some credence to this idea. The idea is that if you’re laughing, your attacker will be less inclined to continue the attack. The authors of the 2013 study suspect that gargalesis is at least partly the evolutionary result of a submission response to an aggressor. In a 2013 study, a team of researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany found that the brain exhibits connectivity between similar areas in response to both a funny joke and to tickling, but we all know that those experiences are vastly different. Gargalesis, on the other hand, is what happens when you’re being tickled hard, and it induces laughter. It’s a signal that something outside your body is interacting with your body. Knismesis is the sensation you get when a fly lands on you and you flinch. To understand why, it’s important to note that there are two distinct types of tickling: gargalesis and knismesis. Tickling may be a way of signaling to attackers that we submit. It’s entirely likely that Benjamin is experiencing that feeling, and as a way to protect itself, his body goes into a momentary shock, shutting itself down to prevent further harm. Anyone who’s ever been tickled knows that behind the laughter is desperation, a feeling that everything is toppling down, an inability to comprehend the world beyond the present moment. When you’re being tickled, your body is expressing two seemingly opposite reactions: pleasure and discomfort. Benjamin isn’t wounded, but his body registers the tickling as distress. People have been known to experience shock after seeing their own blood or realizing the true extent of an injury, a phenomenon that evolutionary psychologists suspect developed to help the body go into a lower-energy state to keep from pumping all the blood out of a wound. It’s also possible, though, that Benjamin’s experience is akin to shock, like when someone’s consciousness recoils after a traumatic injury. In short, he may be passing out from oxygen deprivation - with all that laughing and not enough inhaling, the blood vessels in the brain constrict as he fights to get away.
But now that we know we’re not watching some kind of tickle snuff film, let’s look at the scientific question: Why does he pass out? This video answers the question of consent, which is a huge relief.
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