Eating spider while asleep: myth or fact
It is a common myth that people from time to time eats spiders while sleeping. With 7 billion people and even more spiders worldwide there must be some very close mouth spider encounters going on every day. However, the probability of eating a spider during sleep is probably very low.
Spiders does a lot of hunting when most people are sleeping. The prey of spiders are insects and in extremely rare cases mammals. Spiders tend to prefer small dark crevices in their natural habitat, and a mouth may seem a dark and safe place for any spider.
Spiders and the human mouth
People breathe air out of their mouth that are warmer than the outside temperature. This will make most spiders stay away from an open mouth since this may not seem as a very safe place.
The mouth of humans is very sensitive. Amongst others the tongue is very sensitive. If a spider enters your mouth while asleep you will probably push back the spider with your tongue. However, its more probable that the spider wont enter your mouth at all. Also, humans tend to have a natural reflex of pushing away disturbing things away from their head even when they are sleeping.
Only a few spiders are eaten by people at sleep
The conclusion about whether or not people are eating spiders while asleep is that in most cases people does not. The chances of eating a spider while asleep is therefore very low.
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