has anyone ever...

[missjef]

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?

[beryllium]

haven't woken up whilst in the process of eating one thank goodness lol...

had a delightful visitor yesterday.... a very large wolf spider with all her eggs in a white sac under her... eughhhhhh..... shooed her out the door.... ;-)

[IggyB]

its nothing to worry about - the spider eating thing is an urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.ht m

[Tha-Flash]

I have never woken up with a spider in my mouth lol. I don't know anyone who has.

There's a weird story which I think is true where a spider crawled in this womans ear and layed eggs or something. Imagine walking around knowing that you have a nasty insect inside your head.

[PinkFizz]

beryllium - I saw one exactly the same outside my back door.They look very odd with the white sac - looks just like a white bottom!!

[Champagne]

No, but I knew somebody who reached for a glass of water by their bedside during the night, took a sip and felt something tickle her lip. In the morning she found a spider had drowned in her glas of water! Eeeeeeeewwwweeurrgh*%$% !$�"U! *)(^&*!? CY JSLK tyu4!!!!!!

[missjef]

iggyB - thankyou very much for putting my mind at ease :-)

Tha-flash - that is a weird story, that would jsut be very strange, did they get it out eventually?

[Champagne]

Has anyone read dankay's post above? ^ ^

I'm starting to freak out here!!!

[beryllium]

lol, Pink Fizz... i so didn't want her laying those in the house....

[PinkFizz]

beryllium - my son got bitten my a pregnant spider whilst on France last year - luckily not poisonous but it freaked us out as he was so hysterical with the pain!

[beryllium]

oooh... thats not nice. you forget that they bite.... has he got a fear of them now or is it a 'look!!! thats where a spider bit me' type proud of his war wound?....

[Backdrifter]

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.

[PinkFizz]

Luckily he's made it into a very dramatic story and will go near spiders still,but the worst thing was that on the same day he got bit,he then got stung by a wasp!!

[Supernick]

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.

[caz21]

http://www.warphead.com/modules/news/article.p hp?storyid=205

;o)

[smudge]

My husband loves spiders - the bigger the better & has had them crawling all over his face, much to the amusement of our daughters & grandchildren...!

I think after reading these posts, I'll be putting a hairnet over my face tonight! (Not that I've got one of course!).

[beryllium]

lol... pink fizz... we've got the delights of our nephew coming to stay in a couple of weeks, nearly 3 and will bring in whatever he finds..... luvverley.... :-)

[Tha-Flash]

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.

[missjef]

tha-flash - i think im gonna be wearing ear plugs for some time now!! thats really scary! it had even spun a web!! :-(

[Backdrifter]

Hmmmm... the "video footage" looks mighty suspect to me!

[joko]

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