Do you "swallow spiders in your sleep" ?
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Wibbles
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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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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
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If you place conkers (they are poisonous) around the house, that should keep spiders well away.
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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" -
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
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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.
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Spiders in our house are huge and intelligentThey carry conkers about the ceiling and wait until we are under them and drop conkers on our heads !
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durhamjaide2001 Community Co-Production Group, Scope Member Posts: 10,828 Disability GamechangerOptionsEwww no that's horrible -
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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?
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Free protein then?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?
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durhamjaide2001 Community Co-Production Group, Scope Member Posts: 10,828 Disability GamechangerOptionsThis is definitely a myth because of the vibrations
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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.They/Them, however they are no wrong pronouns with me so whatever you feel most comfortable with
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