i heard we eat millions of spider in of sleep is that true
2007-08-08 03:44:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
It's not true. What spider would be dumb enough to crawl near the mouth of something big and breathing?
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
2007-08-08 03:46:30 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-08-10 09:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by Scoonie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so, we might, i hear they are very good for you if you do i heard that too but i think they are lies how could we swallow a spider in our sleep and not notice it. By the way i hate spiders so i hope its a lie.
2007-08-09 04:44:40 · answer #3 · answered by 2 BLU 4 U 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On average you eat approximately 4 spiders a year!
2007-08-08 03:47:06 · answer #4 · answered by Belzebuth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have heard we eat like 8 spiders in our life time while asleep, I don't think I have.
2007-08-08 03:51:31 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy's_Sweet_Girl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no we don't eat spiders when were asleep unless they are very dumb slow spiders that are just asking for it......well at least i know i dont eat spiders anytime.
2007-08-08 03:52:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Urban myth. You're going to hear a lot of rumors in your life, and most of them will be completely made up.
2007-08-08 06:00:12 · answer #7 · answered by John R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you did you would probably wake up with a coulpe of black hairy legs stuck betwwen you teeth.
2007-08-09 00:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i've heard that apparently the moisture draws them in, then they cant escape.
2007-08-08 03:49:13 · answer #9 · answered by nymphetamine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I eat them even when I am awake.
2007-08-08 03:45:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋