when people sleep they accidently swallow spiders

Actually, this is complete rubbish. It's just another spider myth that has completely no basis in facts. For someone who is asleep to swallow only ONE spider would require way too many totally unlikely occurances to be happening at once. First, you'd have to be laying at such an angle that the spider could naturally enter your mouth with ease, plus at the same time you'd have to have your mouth wide open, and you'd also have to breath in using your mouth at the exact time the spider was entering. As well as this, it would also have to be a wandering spider that for some reason managed to crawl up onto your bed and towards your face. Contrary to common belief, spiders don't move around all that much, and house spiders normally will have travelled no more than four feet in thier entire lifetime. And, finally, I have never found a recorded medical case that reports someone swallowing a spider, or even finding one in their mouth. It's just another urban legend.

I have an interesting statistic too:

100% of morons on the internet believe stupid urban legends.

I eat Spiders for breakfast! crunchy yet soft

Ive never ever heard of anyone ever waking up with a spider in their mouth, never read about it on the net never heard it around the pub, if we swallow even one a year, out of 60 million people in Britain you'd think at least one of them would tell their friends and the news would spread.

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It's complete bull. Scientists and entomologists will tell you that spiders, whether you believe it or not (I am one of thos who falls under the "not" category, but oh well) are more frightened of us than we are of them. Forget having to sleep with your mouth open, forget having to sleep at the right angle, the simple fact is a spider's hearing is so much more enhanced than a human's that even the shallowest of breaths would scare it, so it would not go near the mouth of some snoring idiot.

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This is because a humans mouth is damp aand moist and warm, so the spiders will naturally crawl into your mouth!

Thats why you have to sleep with underpants. Theres a one or two places there (depending on gender) where the spider can go hide ;D

Can't comment on the swallowing thing... but to all those who say no spider will ever go near a human being: Absolute rubbish! Many times I've had them crawling through the hairs on my arms or crawling along my fingers.

Not long ago I woke up in the morning after quite a good night's sleep and there was a kind of tickling on my face. Thinking it was just a hair I reached up to pluck it off and saw a fat spider between my thumb and first finger with its legs wriggling. I let out a cry of disgust and dropped it on the floor at the side of the bed. I'm unable to walk, so if things decide to crawl over me in the middle of the night, I basically have to just lie there and take it.

I've had ants scurrying over my prone body before, but the spider crawling across my face freaked me out more - even though I'm generally not scared of them when I see them on a wall, etc.






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