Why Your Brain Can’t Feel Pain

Your brain can't feel pain, yet migraines exist. Here's the twisted truth.

The brain itself has zero pain receptors, which is why surgeons can poke around in there while you're

fully conscious. But here's where it gets wild. All those headaches you feel,

that's not your brain hurting. It's the tissues surrounding it, the meninges,

blood vessels, and muscles screaming for attention. Your brain is processing their pain signals

but can't feel its own damage. This is why some people walk around with massive brain

tumors and don't realize until it presses on something else. Even crazier,

during awake brain surgery, doctors will literally ask you to talk or move while they're