Why can not we feel atmospheric pressure?

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Solution

There are two parts to the reason:
Firstly, the air inside us is at practically the same pressure as the air outside us. So we are being blown out as much as we are being squashed in.
Secondly, the things we are made of are not very compressible. Increasing the pressure on water by 14.7 PSI only reduces the volume by about 50 parts in a million.

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