eli5: Why do we sometimes feel our heartbeats in other places in our bodies?
In: Biology
This is called your “pulse”, the movement of blood through your veins.
One of the easiest places to feel this is by placing two fingers on the wrist of the other hand, below the thumb-pad.
Because your heartbeat (pulse) is in every part of your body; it’s the flow of blood through arteries and veins. You usually ignore it or it’s too faint to notice, but if your blood pressure is high enough or you press against a blood vessel just right, you can sense your blood pumping
I mean, you only feel it in your heart if you are having a heart attack. Otherwise it is pumping blood everywhere. You can feel the shifting of the pump through the liquid.
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