Sunday, November 9, 2014

Tickling?

          Last Tuesday, my brother and I were playing the tickling game, I usually play with him because he's always complaining about being the little one and having no "brothers" to play with so I decided to be his "brother" and play all kinds of games from cars, dinosaurs, cowboys--and yes I'm the horse and he gets on my back and I have to run with him on top of  until he falls, boxing, and "the tickling game"--we just tickle each other without stopping until we get tired or my mom yells at us; which in this case my mom started yelling at us to stop because we make a lot of noise (yelling) and running around the house, so we went outside to observe the tree and wondered if the tree ever has something that tickles him, something like the wind, birds feet stepping on its branches, kids, or wind. My mom would always tell me that trees had feelings and that if I cut a flower or a leaf out of the the tree he would cry; I believe everything that she says. Probably the tree laughs all the time or when he feels like hes been tickled but we can't see its emotions. I tried to look up and find an answer, but nothing other a book  called "The Tickle Tree" and other pages showed up but none of those pages had an answer to it, so I decided to searched "do trees feel pain" and based on many studies, plants do feel pain and often when we eat vegetables they're still alive (Cohen), when I scrolled down there was many people comments arguing on the topic; some agreed and some others didn't to the "fact."
          A long time I heard from my friend that marijuana plants liked to listen to music, viewzone.com says that the marijuana plants like classical music but they have better results with recording of crickets. Crickets usually chirp before rain which make the plants "act", they open their "stomata's", the breathing pores on the underside of the leaves, which then they start to absorb the water . Below there's a video that shows that plants do have reactions and feelings. 
          This video shows that plants do have feelings and so they feel pain like they showed in the video when the professor burnt a leaf. This video answers the question that we had at the beginning, yes, trees are tickle; if they have feelings than yes that makes the tree feel tickle. 
"Stop Tickling Me"
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"Ticklish Tree"
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Work Cited


"Birds and the Bees" Guardian News and Media. Phil Cohen. 2011.                    Web. 09 Nov. 2014.
"The Amazing and Hidden Life of Plants" Do Plants Have Feelings? N.p.           n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014.






1 comment:

  1. I've always thought tickling is on the edge of pain. It's sort of how hate and love are closely related--or crying and laughing.

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