do we eat spiders in our sleep?

Question

and if we do, what kind? if their poisonous, can we die?

Answer 1

Life is full of risks.

Answer 2

I think it would be highly unlikely that spiders would crawl into a person's mouth or nose while they sleeping. For one thing we move around a lot while we are sleeping and this would deter a spider from even crawling on you, let alone enter any orifice, especially one which is wet and dark. Breathing through your mouth or nose would also deter a spider from entering and most house spiders are too big to fit into a nose in any case. Spiders, like virtually all arthropods, flee from breath. After all, there are lots of vertebrates that eat arthropods, and if you're an arthropod and something is breathing on you, it's not a good idea to stick around.

For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth open when you sleep, which is certainly not something that everyone odes, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; (b) there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which--for most people in the civilized world, at least--is a fairly rare occurrence; (c) the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling.

There is a story about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and that it was supposedly tested by filming people in their sleep for a year. It is hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations would 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 at the back of the throat and this could 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 true. I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about spiders while you sleep!!

Answer 3

Its the goddamn government telling us lies so we'll start covering our mouths with their sheepskins while we sleep, so that we breath in the poisons in the tampered sheepskins and all hallucinate and forget to vote, so we end up with crappy leaders like George Bush, that fake plane crashes to attack other nations without question. When will it end, you ask? When we have the guts to consume spiders on a regular basis, and begin to be unaffected by the drugs implanted in our sheepskins. But that'll only last till we eat the last of the spiders and soon begin to become the decaying country we are meant to be........

Its either not true or its not dangerous, seeing as no one has ever died from it.

Answer 4

we do and we won't die. None are that poisonous nor all that big. Wecertainly don't have Wolf Spiders crawling down our throats! They are sized like small tarantulas... But those tiny little guys that sort of lower themselves from nowhere probably land in an open mouth from time to time. Good source of protein...... lol : )

Answer 5

Best question ever!!!

Probably yes, is my answer. Are they poisonous? Probably not. I'm quite sure you won't die from accidentally eating a spider. But I'm no expert.

Answer 6

I heard from a reliable source a while back that the average person eats three or four spiders during sleep throughout their entire lifetime.

Answer 7

Yes, it has been proven that an average human consumes a spider at least once a month while they are asleep. We do not mean to do it, but the spiders crawl into our mouths and then it is instinct for our body to swallow it

Answer 8

Yes we do. I highly doubt they are poisonous. I read that we will all likely eat up to 8 spiders in our lifetime.

Answer 9

I just heard on TV that we do eat spiders when we sleep. I am thinking so many a year. spiders. Oh yuck?? a person swallows eight spiders per year

nfd

Answer 10

I don't know, but I heard that on National Geographic Channel. "We eat 9 spiders on our lifetime while we are sleeping" or something like that...I hope that isn't true. I hate spiders!

Good and interesting question, I'll give you a star =)

Answer 11

I've read that the average person eats about 7 or 8 spiders in their lifetime.
The specific kind, who knows.
Probably just whatever kind is in or around your house.
I doubt you would die from it, but I'm not expert.