Most of us have heard the "known fact" that you swallow 2-5 spiders per year in your sleep >the number varies everytime I hear it.< I've heard this so much that i've come to wonder "How did one monitor this and decide that it was something most people encountered?" The theories I have come up with don't seem rational, so I was curious to see yours.
I think it's just a lie used to scare people. Spiders suck, so it scares me, but it doesn't stop me from doing anything (like sleeping ).
nothing wrong with a little bit of protein. I know some of the vegetarians would be squirming if they knew they swallowed a spider.
Lots of people use the term 'known fact' for something they just made up... especially if they belong to Greenpeace.
I dont recall swallowing any spiders recently. But maybe if you eat enough of them youll become Spider-Man!
its bullshit. honestly, just think about it. what are spiders doing crawling on your face and then entering your mouth and coaxing you to swallow? can you even swallow in your sleep?
Yea, I see my brother swallow in his sleep all the time when he falls asleep on the couch. Woulnd't you have a massive saliva build up if you didnt? Unless you drool...But i breath through my nose when I sleep
i think it's like how they say you eat so many roaches a year - coz they get into the machines in big facotories and get crunched up in food that is then packaged and you eat it.
I hope I don't eat three spiders every year, not because I'm squeamish (I've eaten mealworms & crickets) but because I like spiders and don't willingly kill them. Spiders eat mosquito's & other annoying bugs -I don't even put them outside but I just let them live in my room.
Right im not sure that spiders could make it into my mouth.. Im a very light sleeper... My cat licking herself at the foot of the bed wakes me up... I thin a spider on my face would wake me up too
I dont think there is a good way to prove that. You would have to watch thousands and thousands of hours of videotape. Videotaope of people sleeping, at that. That has to be the most boring thing you could ever do. But what i dont see never hurts me.
I could care less what I swallow when i am asleep (haha shut up ) just as long as i am sleeping and its not deadly, then dont really care.. But I can see where you can swallow bugs while you sleep.. there are millions of microscopic bugs living on you, so how is it not possible to swallow a few whilist sleeping..
Eh..we're talking about sleeping, not factory food. Factories can be monitered, but everyday people sleeping isn't.
eh... i know.. but im talking about huge factories without humans that are not monitored. they just assume that so many bugs will get taken up as they are assuming so many spiders are eaten.
