do we eat spiders in our sleep?

Question

DO WE EAT SPIDERS IN OUR SLEEP?

Answer 1

yes around 2 a year!

Answer 2

This very widespread urban legend has no basis in fact. It exists in various forms; another common version is that you swallow an average of 20 in your lifetime. (At 4 per year, that would make a very short lifetime of 5 years...) A correspondent in Pennsylvania had heard a version that involved swallowing a pound of spiders (while sleeping) in one's lifetime. (That would be over 20,000 average spiders, for a lifetime of 5,000 years at the 4 per year rate). For a sleeping person to swallow even one live spider would involve so many highly unlikely circumstances that for practical purposes we can rule out the possibility. No such case is on formal record anywhere in scientific or medical literature. Since this page first appeared, I have heard from one person who found a small harmless spider hiding in her ear (which is possible), another who claimed to have had one in her nose (but had no evidence that it wasn't already in her hanky), and one who claimed that when she was a young child a spider leg was found by her lips. But not one person has claimed that a spider entered his or her mouth.

Answer 3

I've heard that, too. But I'm pretty sure that it's an old myth.

It would probably be possible to swallow spiders in your sleep, but unlikely that you wouldn't notice. (Depending on size, etc).
And I would imagine the chances of a spider stumbling into your mouth, would be very small, even in a lifetime.

Answer 4

the average life span most people will eat 10 spiders in their sleep

Answer 5

I saw in a documentary that the average human being swallows 10 spiders in its lifetime while he sleeps, among other bugs and insects.

Answer 6

I personally have had no problems with this... but im always afraid creepy crawlies will climb into my face and lay their eggs.... i saw that on tv once...
if youve been munching on spiders i suggest you either stop sleeping or keep a bottle of tabasco sauce tapped to your headboard. I hear that brings out the crunchy tastes.

Answer 7

now you make me think of that before i go to bed. :| haha, but i don't think we eat spiders in our sleep. :)

Answer 8

well thats a yes and no question wich means that its possible because one would maybe fall or maybe even crawl into your mouth but will probaly be swallowed but if it is it would die but i doubt that happens to a person often so..no worries

Answer 9

Probably not; it's a common urban myth that we do

Answer 10

No we do not. It is simply a myth