Lies. I get an itchy brain all the time.
Literally none of this is true.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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Bout to say... there are nerves in the digestive tract? I know there are nervs around it but...
There are nerves that can sense pressure, that’s why gas pain is a very real and very painful experience
Those are outside the actual digestive tract i believe
...do your internal organs get itchy?
It's like trying to scratch an itch on your foot through your shoe, but worse.
Your digestive tract does have pain receptors and you do feel them. You've had a stomach ache or felt bloated, right? And you will definitely feel a hernia if your intestine goes where it shouldn't. The GI pain receptors just work a little differently. They don't get triggered by burns or cuts. They react to stretching, pulling, twisting, pressure, and some chemical triggers.
As someone who has had gastric ulcers, my GI tract strongly disagrees and asserts its ability to feel burns and cuts.
What does it even mean for something to be painful if you can't feel it? "We could see in the dark if it wasn't for the fact we need light to see"
I think it's that our digestive tract shows symptoms of pain but that doesn't translate to us feeling it. I know your organs get inflamed in a similar way that other parts of you would when you're injured. Maybe it's a bit of a misnomer from this guy as in our bodies evolved long ago to not feel the pain instead of "ignoring" it like op said.
Our bodies are like Iphones. Dumbproof. You don't have admin access and can only see and access the pretty part
I can access parts of mine that are far from being pretty.
I bet your intestines.are worst
Anything's a Chinese finger trap if you're brave enough.
I think you mean a fingure trap
Wanna know what hurts more? The constant realisation that people can't write basic text correctly.
Fingure
You put your fingure on that one
I also don't know that it's even trying to say... How is not feeling your stomach acid comparable to the dark urge to bite your finger?
That one’s on you. They’re saying that your brain can basically override you and, to some degree, reality. It’s the reason you don’t see your nose, or clocks take a lot longer to run down a second the first time you glance over. Pain isn’t actually related to damage, and you can change your whole mood by shooting some straight lemon juice. Our bodies, behind the scenes, are doing crazy shit that our conscious mind has no business knowing about.
I think you're giving that poorly-worded tumblr post too much credit. I really don't think they're comparable "oversights" for our own sanity. The knowledge that we shouldn't bite our finger or the muscle memory/reflexes not to do it is not the same as "noise cancelling" stomach acid/ignoring your nose, and that's not the same as time moving slower if we're waiting on something we're focusing on. Those are certainly 4 distinct mental phenomena. I guess the point of "our perceptions shape the life we experience" is a thought, but they express that very poorly.
Are you actively trying not to understand? There are clear commonalities between all of those things and their mechanisms and while it’s not spelled out for you it’s only a small distance away to get to that.
And I've clearly elucidated that as you can see.
looks down at their finger you know you're all pondering that now.
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen
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