Almost everyone has experienced being tickled at some point in their lives, but what exactly IS tickling? Is it pleasure, or is it pain? Is it possible to tickle yourself? This episode, Kate and Matt talk about tickling, and some of the research exploring what it actually is. They also talk about fish… do they sleep? Episode Sources:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23313827https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051959https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290532/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214007702https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-84UJpYFRMhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC436225/https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/fish-sleep.htmlhttps://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-fish-sleep-with-their-eyes-openYou can follow Curiosity Killed the Rat on twitter (https://twitter.com/CuriosityRat), Insta (https://www.instagram.com/curiosityrat/), and facebook (https://www.facebook.com/curiosityrat/), and email in your listener questions to [email protected]

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