Kee-rist! This is probably the funniest topic title I’ve ever seen. And I can also picture people all over the world reading this and checking themselves out.
[feeling he’s gonna regret responding]I get the same thing when I root my finger around in my belly button.[/feeling he’s gonna regret responding]
Perhaps, a better question is, why does touchin one part of your body result in sensation in other parts.
(Good GOD, I should have worded that differently.)
JMcC, San Francisco, JJM’s page from the Bay
Q. What did Bill Gates’ wife say on their honeymoon?
A. Microsoft, huh? No kidding.
Ha Ha!!! Gotcha!! I just want everybody’s fingers to smell funny!!!
Seriously, I think I’ve had the same sensation from the belly button like jjtm describes. Can’t reproduce it now, though.
I don’t think it’s unheard of for the nervous system to “short”. Some people (my dad included) sneeze when they suddenly are exposed to a lot of sunlight. I’ve heard one explanation for this is that the signal following the nerve pathway from the eyes to the brain bleeds into the pathway from the nose, tricking the brain into thinking something’s up in the shnozz.
Off the top of my head, I think it’s called “sympathetic pain” or something like that. I think that a person having a heart attack feels pressure in his or her arms, for example, and someone with kidney problems might have pain in their knees. Or so I’ve heard.
I’m guessing it’s the same reason watching The Blair Witch Project or playing 3D games like Quake will make me motion-sick. Stomach reacting to the eyes.
Daniel:
I think that sick feeling in your stomach while watching The Blair Witch Project was the realization that you wasted 8 bucks and 2 hrs of your life on the dumbest, cheesiest movie ever.
so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts? Tori Amos
[shamefull confession]I can’t believe that I actually scratched my ass just to see if Little Diceman would feel anything unusual. [/shamefull confession]
Excuse me, while I go wash my index finger…
“I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island
*Revtim: In my years of ass-scratching, I’ve noticed that when I vigorously scratch the very top of my butt crack, I get a sharp pain in the tip of my penis. *
Well, don’t scratch your ass with the tip of your penis!