Have you ever wondered what happens before a touch is felt? When you fingertip gets into contact with your favourite object? Yes, the information needs to go to your brain, which then tells you what happened. As you can imagine, there are several steps inbetween, that the information needs to surmount. Whereas the signal  propagation inside the nerve cells is quite well investigated, one of the least understood events is how the mechanical information reaches the nerve cells. It has to travel through several layers of tissue and then, it has to open the mechanosensitive ion channel inside the nerves, which ultimately converts the mechanical information into an electrical. In this article we summarize what is know about these events in C elegans. Enjoy.