The Sickening Truth About Eating Spiders In Your Sleep
We’ve all been freaked out the first time we heard of the “fact” that we accidentally eat eight spiders a year in your sleep. These type of stories are enough to give anyone arachnophobia.
Even though it seems kind of seems like an old wives tale but, what if it’s not?
You have no way of knowing what creepy-crawlies are finding their way into your mouth when you are asleep because well….you’re pretty much unconscious.
If you do have a major phobia of spiders or are just petrified of accidentally choking on one in the night then you can literally put your fears to bed.
It has been found that this old tale is completely false.
A few years ago Scientific American did some digging into this urban myth and discovered that it was utter nonsense.
First of all, spiders rarely ever leave their cobwebs and if they do they are usually hunting for food. So, unless you have a load of dead flies in your bed it is really unlikely that any spiders are going to be joining you.
Furthermore, spiders are very sensitive to vibrations so a sleeping person is not something a spider would willingly approach.
Unless you or anyone else have actual physical proof of a spider’s remains in your mouth then there is nothing to worry about.