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Why did I get Electric Shock

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You are isolated from other charged objects therefore.The air is very dry. Where I live it only happens occasionally when the air is cold and dry in winter. The humidity drains the charge away before it gets enough to be noticed.When you touch other objects, with a difference in voltage of the charge,......
When i touching on keyboard, door or somewhere else (mostly on metal) getting Electric Shock. And even touching any person getting shock. What is the reason? Is there any electric circulation in the body or air?

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Sort of. This is usually called static electricity. Electric charge is transferred from insulating materials to charge your body by touching them. This is usually from a surface charge on an insulator, an accumulation or shortage of free electrons. You can get charged maybe from walking on a carpet, sitting and moving in chairs, rubbing a cardigan, combing your hair. Rubbing helps with transferring charges from an insulator, as the charge cannot move on the surface easily. Charges can accumulate on insulators from ions floating around in the air too. There are often minor sparks seen when this charging of your body is happening. The charge can build up if:
The floor is insulated or you have insulating shoes. You are isolated from other charged objects therefore.
The air is very dry. Where I live it only happens occasionally when the air is cold and dry in winter. The humidity drains the charge away before it gets enough to be noticed.

When you touch other objects, with a difference in voltage of the charge, the charge on your body flows to or from this object till the two objects are more or less balanced in charge. If it is a metallic, object the transfer is easier, and so more likely to be noticed as sparks and a shock. The voltage on your body can be many thousands of volts quite easily, so this can damage voltage sensitive devices like electronics chips if they are not designed for this.

This has nothing to do with life forces and other such. It is all physical, a bit like lightning forming in clouds, but much smaller scale. Surface charge accumulates on insulators or flows to insulated metal objects, and this can be transferred by touch contact, charging your body to a higher and higher voltage if it is insulated too. The body behaves like a capacitor, or one plate of a capacitor, perhaps connected to ground - perhaps up to 300 picofarads..

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The shock is caused by static electricity. When you walk around your body picks electric charges from the floor and other surfaces. All these charges get accumulated around your body and when you touch some conductor (metal) connected somehow to the ground they get discharged. By definition, electric current is the flow of electric charges which is what you feel.

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All life on earth has a electrical current in them, some call it the soul. much of what your are talking about is static, and yes every one can produce static electric. from the clothes you wear to the things you use, all can produce static electric.
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