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If for some reason I get one of my hands wet I then need to get the other one wet aswell. I dislike asymmetries like this. Same with temperatures, I one hand or foot is colder than the other I need to equalise them.
I have something a bit similar, when I walk on a crack in the sidewalk with one foot, I have to walk on a similar crack the same spot on my other foot otherwise things feel "unbalanced"
Interesting, but I think there are very different underlying causes that drive these behaviours. If my hands are wet I can block out the sensation but if only one is wet then my focus keeps shifting to the sensation, as if the imbalance makes it more salient. It is less a habit and more a coping tactic to filter out sensory information.
I do the wet hand thing too. I think it must be a nervous system thing, if one hand gets wet and the other stays dry, the dry hand starts to feel hot rather than the wet one feeling cold. Can't have that.