When you sleep, you swallow at least 1 insect EVERY night.
This is due to nocturnal insects that come out at night head for warmer hiding places. This includes spiders.
Your open mouth is the ideal place.
Sleep well !
2007-03-10 09:18:12 · 22 answers · asked by trickyrick32 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
This is no joke. It's a well known fact.
2007-03-10 09:26:46 · update #1
YOU FU CKING WHAT? omg i have a very severe form of arachnophobia and sh it bull ocking fu ck why d'u tell me this?
2007-03-12 09:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by DiamondKiss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
***I have read elsewhere about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and I think this fits into the rumour to fact to garbage model. I find it hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations have been filmed for a year or more to validate this statement. It is possible for a spider to walk into your mouth and trigger the swallowing mechanism started at the back of the throat. I would not be surprised to find out that this did in fact occur on a rare occasion. It may even be true that there are a few people out there who have unknowingly eaten eight spiders in the last twelve months. This still would not make such a generalisation be considered as reasonable.
In my humble opinion, I think your breathing would most likely put off any spider from entering your mouth. You also move around a fair bit in your sleep, which would be enough to ensure that spiders did not generally remain in close proximity to you. Therefore, I consider the above statement to be most unlikely and if anybody can prove me wrong on this, then they should pose a question to me through MadSci Network. Such statements only help to perpetuate phobias against maligned animals.
The fact is that we are eating bug bits all the time in our food. In the USA, the FDA allows a certain level of insect fragments to be present in food and you can check this out at this out at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.***
ICK
2007-03-11 17:43:05 · answer #2 · answered by Kate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you do swallow spiders but only 2 per year on average. These are usually house spiders that are attracted to warm humid environments eg your mouth.
Sleep tight.
2007-03-10 22:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive heard this too.I dont actually mind spiders but one morning when i woke up after very drunken nite out, i reached for my pint of water (which i always manage to take to bed no matter how wasted i am!!!) and guzzled away like the thirstiest thirsty person in all the world. I peered thru my eyelashes to see if i was still in this world and not the next and to my horror was the biggest spider ive ever seen floating in my water!! That woke me up i can tell you!! In response to one of the other answers, i also wake up occasionally coughing for no apparent reason, like theres sumthin in my throat OOOoooeeerr!!!!!
2007-03-13 05:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by oldybutgoody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true but like some of the others said - it's not every night, just now and then. I'm ok though because my house is so b l o o d y cold that the bugs go outside to get warm.
2007-03-11 15:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by Cream tea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible, but probably unlikely. Especially every night. And also hard to believe that you would not notice a spider crawling into your mouth. What are they suicidal.
2007-03-11 17:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perfectly true, male spiders will tap your bottom lip with their extra long feeler leg to ensure you are asleep before entering your mouth, as the slightest movement of your teeth could puncture that disgusting belly bag thing they have resulting in the squidgy contents being discharged.
2007-03-10 17:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm wondering where your question is.
On the other hand, I heard that at some point in your life,everyone eats a bug when they sleep, but I never heard that you eat a bug every night.
2007-03-10 17:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by car_gal79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not true. the only things that go into your mouth when your asleep is air... and stuff in the air which does not incluede spiders and bugs. how could they get into our mouth and bypass our gag reflex? huh? we would wake up and start choking if a spider tried to get down our throats. and i think that we would notice if we woke up with a spider in our mouth
2007-03-10 19:19:02 · answer #9 · answered by bulletprooflonliness 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Get lost, I'm NOT impressed with that, it's not true anyway. I hate spiders, I have to check the 4 corners of my bedroom walls b4 I can sleep, and when I was in Spain I stayed awake ALL night watching for spiders and none came, so what would have happened there? I think you're just joking me, good one, ha ha!
2007-03-10 17:24:37 · answer #10 · answered by Jane H 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I heard it is closer to eight total in a lifetime, we should chocolate cover all insects and spiders so they would be tastier
2007-03-11 09:16:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋