How many insects do people eat involuntarily in their sleep on average per year?
“It often happens that a totally crass scientific-sounding statement is made, which then becomes repeated over and over again, regardless of whether there is valid scientific evidence to support it. Sometimes such statements become accepted as fact until someone debunks the statement and it then becomes accepted as scientific garbage. I have read elsewhere about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and I think this fits into the rumour to fact to garbage model. I find it hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations have been filmed for a year or more to validate this statement. It is possible for a spider to walk into your mouth and trigger the swallowing mechanism started at the back of the throat. I would not be surprised to find out that this did in fact occur on a rare occasion. It may even be true that there are a few people out there who have unknowingly eaten eight spiders in the last twelve months. This still would not ma
“It often happens that a totally crass scientific-sounding statement is made, which then becomes repeated over and over again, regardless of whether there is valid scientific evidence to support it. Sometimes such statements become accepted as fact until someone debunks the statement and it then becomes accepted as scientific garbage. I have read elsewhere about humans eating eight spiders a year in our sleep without knowing it and I think this fits into the rumour to fact to garbage model. I find it hard to believe that a group of people in different sleeping situations have been filmed for a year or more to validate this statement. It is possible for a spider to walk into your mouth and trigger the swallowing mechanism started at the back of the throat. I would not be surprised to find out that this did in fact occur on a rare occasion. It may even be true that there are a few people out there who have unknowingly eaten eight spiders in the last twelve months. This still would not ma
