Do we really eat spiders in our sleep?
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No this is an urban myth. I imagine it would be hard to swallow the spider when most people sleep with their mouths closed unless they are snoring. Also, I do not think your mouth is a very inviting place for a spider to crawl. In fact I imagine the breathing would scare it off.
Anyway, MythBusters on the Discovery Channel has this to say "Despite what you may have heard, there is no evidence that spiders secretly crawl into our mouths while we are sleeping. Hard as it may be for arachnophobes to believe, most spiders are more wary of us than we are of them. Even if you were lying perfectly still, your breathing would scare it off, so a spider is unlikely to hang out around your mouth.
We hate to break this to you, but you probably unwittingly consume more spiders when you are awake — in your food. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines indicate a certain level of whole insects or parts are acceptable in some food products, such as those containing fruits or vegetables."
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbu...
Hope this helps.
LMAO! Not unless your mom was putting them in your mouth.
yes we do eat spiders in our sleep!
no hun
No. That's just an urban legend.
I heard that the average person eats a spider a year, because the spider is attracted to the warmth.
Yes, you eat whatever crawls or flies into your mouth during the night. We people who are open-mouth sleepers always get extra protein at night...LOL
yes we do.. i think u eat something like 8 in a lifetime in average so pretty rare tho..
i think its 8 per year or eight per lifetime. not sure which but i told my boyfriend it was 8 per year the other day cos he was doing my head in. cruel, i know!!
I read somewhere that humans consume at least 8 spiders a lifetime in our sleep. Which is disgusting!
I've heard this a lot lately...it must be making the vegans turn white...all that animal protein. hehe
Good luck and be well.
Kelley
No. That's an urban myth that was debunked on Snopes.com
Check it out for yourself if you want.
We don't swallow spiders in our sleep.
i dont think so, we would choke, and im sorry but im a lite sleeper so i would notice something crawling in my mouth.
Your mom lied. You really eat cockroaches when sleeping.
ONLY TARANTULAS
yeah ur meant to have eaten 8 spiders a year when were asleep, Its Gross!
Yes, a study shows that the average person eats between 7 and 9 spiders a year in their sleep. Its a fact. Now, maybe you're fortunate enough to be one the "below-average" people. =P
Not likely. Read this interview for more info..
ya we do eat them in our sleep and not to freak u out or ne thing but ppl either eat 8 spiders a year or in a life time i cant remember but still for me eating 8 spiders is just gross ur mom was tellin u the truth
i heard that too someone told me that the average person eats 8 spiders in there lifetime while there sleeping
i dont kno if i belive that but thats what somene told me too ( =
I've heard that, too, but I don't think it's true. But it would scare *me* if my mom told me that!
There's this thing that everyone says we eat an average of 8 spiders in our sleep.
I don't believe it.
First off, wouldn't that mean that they were crawling on you? What about when you just lie on your bed?! How come you don't bite marks on your skin?! And then why don't they go in our ears, or nose? Why don't we wake up to find a spider on us?!
I think somebody just made up that rumor to scare somebody and it spread. I hate spiders too haha, I refuse to believe it.
yes - but not very many - besides they're protein
Hi,
Sorry to frighten you but YES, we apparently do eat spiders in our sleep.
They have calculated we eat around 13 in a lifetime, which is not to bad seeing as the average house has around 3000 spiders living in it.
I don't like them either but you cannot alter the reality of the situation to suit yourself.
Pretty cruel of your Mom to scare you with the facts though.
Spit in her coffee tomorrow morning, that will get your own back...lol
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