Is it true that you eat eight HOUSE spiders a lifetime?

Question

Someone told me you eat eight common house spiders, and i thought surely if you ate one of them you would notice, because they are big. I know you eat eight spiders a lifetime, but i thought they were they little money spiders.... Anyway, how do people know you eat aound eight spiders a lifetime in your sleep?

Answer 1

It's okay, the acid in your stomach kills them.

Answer 2

don't you think you would wake up choaking on a big fat crunchy spikey spider.... ewwww of course its not true!

Maybe tiny little ones but i even doubt that!

However i reckon its true that spiders drink our spit when we are sleeping from the corner of our mouths!! How horrible!

Answer 3

no the correct awnser is u eat (on average) 2 n a half a year!!

YUK!!

Answer 4

I had mine this morning with milk,followed by fried maggots on toast.

Answer 5

No, no one can be sure how many you eat anyway.

Wouldn't you feel it ?

*CRINGE*

lol :)

Answer 6

Don't worry - it's an urban myth.  Think about it - do you even see 8 spiders in a room in a single day, let alone imagine any of them would make it to your mouth before you turned over and squashed it.

Answer 7

Don't listen to them, its a web of deceit.

Answer 8

a lot more than 8!

people say you dream about insects after you've eaten them in your sleep

Answer 9

Yes it's true,  I had mine yesterday !

Answer 10

ts no more than a urban myth and has been proved that this does not happen

Answer 11

I think this is probably an urban myth -



1. spiders wouldn't go near your breath, they would have to fall in from your ceiling.

2. Not many people sleep with their mouth open.

3. Your mouth is sensitive and reflex actions would push the spider away.

This is unlikely, but not completely impossible.

Answer 12

I heard it was more like 83!!!

Answer 13

I don't know about swallowing spiders, but they definately do crawl up on your bed. One night, I woke up lying on my back, and I wanted to turn over. There was a fairly big spider on my pillow, right next to my head! As I sat up in my bed, the spider ran away.

Swallowing one would be difficult unless you sleep with your mouth wide open.