When You Got Spiders

When I was a kid, I remember having a serious discussion with your friends about how people swallow spiders during sleep. The arguments range from 4 to swallow spiders a year in the life of a pound of spiders swallowed. What we all knew for sure was that we swallow spiders in our sleep, and probably almost every night.

Adults are no less credulous children, apparently, as shown in Lisa Holst PC Professional magazine journalist in the 1990s. Holst wanted to show how sensitive people should accept as fact the statements they read online or your email address. To illustrate this, she was the author of many facts and statistics, including a contraption that she found a text insects folklore List: the average person eats eight spiders a year. As projected Holst statement was accepted as fact, and quickly spread over the Internet.

But is there any truth to the urban legend? Is it possible that we swallow spiders in your sleep?

You can rest easy, because your swallowing spiders while sleep possibilities are almost none. And I only say almost none, because nothing is impossible, I think. Not a single study has been done to date to quantify people swallow spiders while sleeping. Why scientists studying this phenomenon? Because it just does not happen!

To swallow spiders in your sleep, the incredible number of coincidences are all must occur in sequence. You must be sleeping with his mouth open. If a spider crawling on the face and lips, you probably think that it is, so that the spider will contact you descend from the ceiling above you on a silk thread. The spider will hit the target - mouth - dead to avoid tickling your lips. And if it came down to the very sensitive to the surface of the tongue, you might think it is safe. Therefore, the spider will come down the throat without touching anything on the way in. And then you have to swallow.

But the actual end result is this: the spiders will not come voluntarily close a big mouth predator. This is how we see the end spider as a warm-blooded, dangerous creatures that can eat them. What is the motivation to have a spider crawling in your mouth?