A question about spiders

Question

is it true you swallow 7 or 8 spiders in your sleep during the year.

Answer 1

Well, I suppose it's possible, but really though.

I suppose if you sleep in a creepy spider lair basement on a bed with no box spring or frame and have a fly stuck to your tooth, then yeah.

But even if you did eat a few spiders, that's just more protein for you. There are places where people eat them purposely, or in survival situations.

It is a sick thing to think about, and its better not to. If you did swallow one for some odd reason by accident, it would be dead in a few seconds and disintegrate quickly anyways as your stomach acids destroyed it.

Yeah thanks, now I'm going to be thinking about swallowing spiders tonight.!

If you live in a basement now, I would suggest the second floor or higher for less possibility of spider consumption.

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 think this has got to be the weirdest question asked ever...

easiest option : find a boyfriend or girlfriend and tonguekiss each other the whole night..

Answer 4

I think you are scared of them that is why you are asking that type of question.

I don't think it is true but, if you keep opening your mouth, it may happen!!!!!. When people sleep they should stick a big sticky tape on their mouth so that they will get a peaceful sleep.

ow, come on. If this was true then why people who sleep with open mouth do not swallow 7 or 8 spiders in sleep?. I don't believe in this. It is not true.  

Answer 5

No it's a myth. You can't really work that out for one thing and anyway spiders aren't that stupid.  

Answer 6

I was told that when I was living in the UK, it's probably true over there because they really don't like killing spiders and say they eat the flies etc......

Bet they would kill a Sydney Funnel web or a Red Back, before they even went to sleep !