Do you "swallow spiders in your sleep" ?

Wibbles
Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
edited August 2023 in Coffee lounge
BBC reckon that we swallow 8 spiders per year in our sleep
I don't believe that I have ever swallowed a spider - in my sleep or whilst I am awake....

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,990 Championing
    I heard it was 7 over our lifetime! 8 a year seems a lot...

    I once woke up to a spider webbing down from the ceiling 6 inches from my face :#
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,687 Pioneering
    edited August 2023
    If you place conkers (they are poisonous) around the house, that should keep spiders well away.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,990 Championing
    Thanks for the tip @rebel11 I am going to give that a try as I really don't like spiders in my bedroom at night.

    I read a quote recently..."whoever said 'out of sight, out of mind' clearly never had a spider disappear behind the furniture in their bedroom"
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    rebel11 said:
    If you place conkers (they are poisonous) around the house, that should keep spiders well away.

    Spiders on our house cart off the conkers for food
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,001 Championing
    I'm gonna say probably not...  I reckon we eat small flies though.  Those annoying ones that seem to buzz around your ears but are too small to see.  I'm sure I must have inhaled a few of those!  :#

    I'm not sure how effective the conker trick really is.  My Nan had loads around her place yet it was still full of cobwebs.  I've been using some spray repellent which contains mint and lemon around window frames...but that doesn't work either.  :D
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    Spiders in our house are huge and intelligent
    They carry conkers about the ceiling and wait until we are under them and drop conkers on our heads !
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,593 Championing
    Ewww no that's horrible 
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    durhamjaide2001 said:
    Ewww no that's horrible 

    but true..
  • life
    life Online Community Member Posts: 526 Empowering
    Spiders are harmless. Let them roam.

    If you do eat them in your sleep is that classed as a meal, Do you have to start fasting again from the beginning?

    😂😂👍
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    life said:
    Spiders are harmless. Let them roam.

    If you do eat them in your sleep is that classed as a meal, Do you have to start fasting again from the beginning?

    😂😂👍
    Free protein then? 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,593 Championing
    This is definitely a myth because of the vibrations 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    These threads are the ones I hate checking 🤣 Gives me the heebie-jeebies! 
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing

    So you don't like.....

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  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,687 Pioneering
    Hannah_Scope said:
    These threads are the ones I hate checking 🤣 Gives me the heebie-jeebies! 
    @Hannah_Scope Don't worry, fear not, I'll protect you, I'll squish any spider that attacks you, Sword and Shield at the ready!!
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    edited August 2023
    @Wibbles oooo right, in the time out corner 🤣 

    @rebel11 Thank you!!! 😊
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    Hannah_Scope said:
    @Wibbles oooo right, in the time out corner 🤣 

    @rebel11 Thank you!!! 😊

    Sorry - I bet that you would prefer....

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,717 Championing
    Yes please, can I have cute and fluffy.

    I don't actually mind spiders as long as they stay in their corner. Eat the flies, stay in the corner ceiling, it's an arrangement we have.
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @wibbles Perfect! <3

    @Jimm_Scope I don't even do that deal with them  :D
  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,484 Championing
    Just don't eat lamb - even with mint sauce !

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