Have you ever woke up to a six inch centipede in your bed and on your throat?

Question

Yes, that happened to me once. I went to bed and as I was going to sleep, I found a flying ant in my hair. Kind of got me nervous before I went to sleep. Well, I turned out the light and went to sleep. An hour or so later I awoke and in refex I flipped this thing from my throat. I felt a zillion writhing legs and I knew it was a centipede. I freaked! And I am not bad around bugs and stuff either. I turned on the light and I looked for the monster. I looked and looked and couldn't find it. Eventually I gave up thinking maybe it was just a horrible dream (after all, I had gone to bed a little "bugged out"). Another half hour or so of sleep and I awoke to it on my stomach! I freaked all over again and looked around for another 20 minutes before heading for the lamp to turn it off. That was when I found it. Right in a fold in the top center of my pillow! Like it was waiting for me! It was 6 inches long! I wonder how bad it would have been if it had bit me in the neck. Any thoughts on that? Would I have been in danger? Thank you! And pleasant dreams....

Answer 1

I have been bitten by a centipede once when I was chopping some would. It had bitten me in the finger. It wasn't six inches long though, That's got to be a little frightening. But I have heard it you do get bitten by one get help fast because the are poisonous.  

Answer 2

Centipedes do bite, so that could have been bad.  I think for most of them you get a bump/rash but it isn't fatal.

That has never happened to me, but on my first morning of being at college, I was bending my head down into the sink to spit (I was brushing my teeth) and a wicked long centipede, (I would say about 4 incehs) crawled right out of the drain.  I screamed so loud and the 2 other girls thought I was psychotic until I told them to look into the sink, lol.

Answer 3

Sorry. Can't top Orkneymist's answer!

SMILE!

Answer 4

No--thank God! The whole idea freaks me out. Maybe you need to call an exterminator! Yuck! I don't know how you manage any pleasant dreams anymore.

Answer 5

i wake up with a 6 inch centipede every morning...