I see that come up a lot with tattoo artists. Apparently their clients who are men tend to struggle with the pain of it and on the flip side the women tend to be more tolerant.
I know I’ve fallen asleep during certain tattoos, and while I did have one hurt quite a lot (in a well known place for pain) I just remember thinking oh wow this one is a doozy but I didn’t do anything outwardly about it.
My husband on the other hand straight up passes out from the pain. He didn’t believe me when I said I fell asleep for some of my tattoos so on my next tattoo I wore a heart rate monitor and he was in disbelief when I averaged about 50bpm through the whole thing.
There could also be selection effects at work, with regard to who gets tattoos and for what reason.
I knew a woman who had fibromyalgia and she used to get tattoos all the time. She said the tattoos helped with her fibro pain. Pain is weird, that’s all I can say about that!
Woo! Sensory overload! Intense, direct pain in a localized area helps to drown out widespread, decentralized pain.
Basically, one can focus on that one pain and prevent the brain from processing the fact that other parts of the body are also sending signals of pain, allowing one the illusion of momentary relief of that pain.
Also known as “diffuse noxious inhibitory control” or “conditioned pain modulation”.
The human brain is just a meat computer and it can be hacked.
I see that come up a lot with tattoo artists. Apparently their clients who are men tend to struggle with the pain of it and on the flip side the women tend to be more tolerant.
I know I’ve fallen asleep during certain tattoos, and while I did have one hurt quite a lot (in a well known place for pain) I just remember thinking oh wow this one is a doozy but I didn’t do anything outwardly about it.
My husband on the other hand straight up passes out from the pain. He didn’t believe me when I said I fell asleep for some of my tattoos so on my next tattoo I wore a heart rate monitor and he was in disbelief when I averaged about 50bpm through the whole thing.
There could also be selection effects at work, with regard to who gets tattoos and for what reason.
I knew a woman who had fibromyalgia and she used to get tattoos all the time. She said the tattoos helped with her fibro pain. Pain is weird, that’s all I can say about that!
Woo! Sensory overload! Intense, direct pain in a localized area helps to drown out widespread, decentralized pain.
Basically, one can focus on that one pain and prevent the brain from processing the fact that other parts of the body are also sending signals of pain, allowing one the illusion of momentary relief of that pain.
Also known as “diffuse noxious inhibitory control” or “conditioned pain modulation”.
The human brain is just a meat computer and it can be hacked.
When my wife got her first tattoo, the artist remarked that she was very still the whole time. I haven’t gotten one because I know better.