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How Your Brain Predicts Your Reality & How To Be Calm and Why Should Be

Something You Should Know

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The Effect of Prediction on Pain

The reason we can't tickle ourselves is that we're too good at predicting what's going to happen. If you predict that something is going to be painful, does that make it more painful? It really looks as if it makes it more painful. And vice versa. I think this is why dentists always say to you, this will just be a tickle. They're trying to dampen the way that you would otherwise experience this particular flow of sensory stuff.

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