What happens when we get shocked by static electricity?
The reason you feel the shock is because the nerves in your body run electrochemical signals to your brain, and since static electricity is well…electricity it has a kind of short circuit effect on the nerves, which is what you are feeling. The shock happens because you or the person being zapped is grounded allowing the electricity to pass through them, basically making them a conduit for the flow of electrons. Electricity is always trying to get to the ground, it does this for a number of reasons that I’ll neglect in this answer, but if I were Plato or a lesser man I would say it does this because the ground is its natural place. Some people feel it more depending on where they are shocked, how sensitive their nerves are, I suppose the individuals level of resistance (they might feel it more if they are wet at the time of the shock, or if you were walking around a field in a tin suit during a lightning storm), and how much voltage there is in the shock. Also, some people just play
