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woken up with a spider in their mouth? sounds stupid i know, but i have always wondered because you hear that theres a statistic that everyone swallows around 8 spiders in their lifetime during sleep i think, so i wondered if this had happened to anyone?
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its nothing to worry about - the spider eating thing is an urban legend
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.ht m
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.ht m
Iggy, well done for posting that snopes link. Not only does it confirm what I thought the first time I heard this 8 spiders thing - i.e., that it's a load of crap - but it's got lots of other interesting stuff too. It's intriguing reading about how that woman started the "8 spiders" thing as an illustration of how gullible people can be - only for it to end up being spread around as a "fact" in its own right!
The snopes site also debunks the famous myth that the kids' TV show Captain Pugwash featured characters called Master Bates and Seaman Staines. I remember a couple of newspapers having to apologise for perpetuating that myth.
Tha-Flash's spider eggs thing is, I suspect, similarly a load of tosh. I've heard a number of variations of that one. It's highly unlikely, as spiders find the temperature of the human body very uncomfortable. They may accidentally find themselves on a human from time to time but they'd be keen to get away and certainly wouldn't choose to lay their eggs there.
I always sleep on my back with my arms over the top of the duvet, and i woke up once to see a large house spider perched on the roll of duvet about 5 or 6 inches from my face, just having a little wander up the bed.
What the hell do you do? Whip the covers off, and risk it falling on you, or try to inch away as it crawls towards you? I nearly died.
And once I actually woke up on the sofa, and could feel something in the fold of my ear (not in the actual hole). Only a flaming earwig. An actual earwig in my ear.
missjef and backdrifter..
I think this is the one I actually remember reading http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-10 447559,00.html I remember the bit about the motorbike.
It doesn't lay eggs in her head (not sure where exactly I got that from) but it spins a web. It says the spider stayed there because of an ideal temperature.
I did find similar stories, some are probably not true.
I think this is the one I actually remember reading http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-10 447559,00.html I remember the bit about the motorbike.
It doesn't lay eggs in her head (not sure where exactly I got that from) but it spins a web. It says the spider stayed there because of an ideal temperature.
I did find similar stories, some are probably not true.
there was a tape sent to jeremy beadle which showed a man asleep with a spider crawling in his mouth, - he didn't wake and it crawled out again, but had he taken a deepo breath or closed his mouth he would have swallowed it - so the 8 thing may have been started off as myth but it is not beyond the realms of possibilty.
you could quite easily inhale and suck it down or just swallow right the moment it is there - who knows, but i doubt it is something that any scientists could estimate as everyone is different and lives in different conditions.
i would also think that many other bugs go the same way as the spiders
