Can I eat spiders while asleep?
342335
You definitely can.  Spiders seek out warm, damp, dark places to make their nests or wait for prey.  On average, we eat lots of things we wouldn't normally think of eating.  We eat a pound or more of dirt each year found in our fruits and vegetables, for example.  Hate to say this... but we also ingest fecal materials (to put it gently) every year as well!  \nCome to think of it, I think I rather eat a spider than the variety of other things we find in and on our everyday foods!  It's nothing to worry about though so relax.  Ok, have a great night and sweet dreams!
714040
No you would wake up, if something were chewing though your ear drum. Also it would be way too much effort to get to your brain, they'd be raiding your kitchen for crumbs, not your head.\n\nDon't eat in bed. ---Sorry sick joke, can't resist, lol.
1054042
All spiders are predators. They do not eat plants, but only other living animals. Insects, spiders, invertebrates, some small vertebrates are the typical prey items.\nSo I would say yes they eat termites.
437693
Myth: You unknowingly swallow an average of four live spiders in your sleep each year.\n\nFact: This very widespread urban legend has no basis in fact. It exists in various forms; another common version is that you swallow an average of 20 in your lifetime. (At 4 per year, that would make a very short lifetime of 5 years...) A correspondent in Pennsylvania had heard a version that involved swallowing a pound of spiders (while sleeping) in one's lifetime. (That would be over 20,000 average spiders, for a lifetime of 5,000 years at the 4 per year rate).\n\nFor a sleeping person to swallow even one live spider would involve so many highly unlikely circumstances that for practical purposes we can rule out the possibility. No such case is on formal record anywhere in scientific or medical literature. Since this page first appeared, I have heard from one person who found a small harmless spider hiding in her ear (which is possible), another who claimed to have had one in her nose (but had no evidence that it wasn't already in her hanky), and one who claimed that when she was a young child a spider leg was found by her lips. But not one person has claimed that a spider entered his or her mouth.
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Yes, it can. Your best non-medical intervention is to avoid large meals (have lots of "snacks" instead) and don't eat late at night. If you go to bed around 11, best not to eat after 8.\n\nAlso best to avoid "gas producing" foods for your evening meal, as the gasses fill up your stomach and make the hernia protruded even worse than usual. You know what I mean, stuff like beans, broccoli.\n\nNot speaking for myself, but several patients have told me that "food combining rules" are helpful, rules like "don't eat fruits and vegetables at the same meal". I don't know these rules, but I easily googled them when I first heard of them.\n\nIf you still are getting uncomfortable when you lay down in bed, try sleeping in a recliner so you are in little more upright of a posture. If you don't have a handy LaZBoy, those folding loungers from LeFuma -- you know, the fancy dan ones that cost $100 -- are so comfortable that I can't stay awake! I ONLY use them for sleeping!\n\nIf you decide to go on medication, here is a tip. Nexium is just the same as Prilosec except for addition of something to prevent/treat bleeding ulcers. If bleeding ulcers have never been a problem, why not just take which ever is cheapest for you?
128052
if you mean the "no eating after six pm" diet, then yes.  however, you can update it to "no eating 2-3 hours before you go to bed, at least" diet.  with some of our society going nocturnal, you can't really hold to the six pm time anymore.
1138637
I think you should try to catch one and paint him orange, that way the follower chickens will get confused as to who they should obey.  After you do this, you should set a pillow with a tape recording in it to instruct the chickens to eat any remaining spiders and then sacrifice themselves on the grill
10522
actually this is an old wives tale. Most people would say 7 a year. This is actually untrue. I read a scientific document on this and there is a specific reason I cannot recall but spiders will generally recoil and scurry off at anything moving....including movement from breathing. Spiders also prefer high and dry locations over damp warm mouths.
903253
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz  for sleep\nMmm  Mmm  for tasty
1005752
This phenomenon (mate eating!) is common for most spiders not just widows but it doesn't happen every time. Even though it’s every male spider’s problem; the black widows get more press so most people think it’s just the widow’s thing. \n\nFemale spiders don't always recognize their own species and all spiders are cannibalistic, so the male spider (usually smaller than the female) is at a great disadvantage. Males engage in a lengthy and subtle courtship ritual that lulls the female into the right mood. Every move the male makes has to be just right or it's all over for him. Sometimes it's all over for him no matter what he does - these would be the near-starving females that are more worried about food than reproduction. After mating (which may take some time) the female gradually returns to her normal state of mind – which includes eating anything smaller than her, including mates. If the male is foolish enough to hang out in the web too long, it becomes lunch. Most males skip out immediately and look for another female (sound familiar?)
1136619
It isn't impossible. It actually happens to lots of people. I got bite by a spider the other night. Just don't think about it because if it was a dangerous spider you would have been feeling different and most of the time it would have started to swell and change colors. Don't worry about it because it happens to alot of people. You actually EAT 7 spiders in a life time while you are sleeping.\n*superchic*
1148805
They do not have teeth like you and me.  They have things called mandibles that grind and chew the food.  Insects do not have fangs though spiders have chelicerae which are basically like "fangs" as you would think of them.  They feed by extra-oral digestion.  They inject digestive juices into their prey through their chelicerae that digest the preys insides then they suck their meal up like a milkshake.
48962
It depends on how big each of those are, not the appetite. Most spiders will eat and eat, no matter how full they are, because their abdomen will just continue to expand. But on average, I would say about 1. It takes at least an hour for spiders to eat something.
1140992
This is a myth. Look at the entomology website from the U of California Riverside.\nhttp://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html
1022653
Don't listen to the others well you can if you want to but whatever!I would leave them even though i'm afraid of spiders it's a rear chance of getting bitten by them.Oposed to mosquitos thos are deadly for too many bites well thats my opinion!whats your's please pick me for best answer!!!!!
159850
try sleeping with cucumbers on your eyes.
325207
The cockroach is an omnivore, that is, it eats everything edible, animal and vegetable. So if we do not move around too much while sleeping they might be inclined to nibble on our earlobes at night. They are rarely aggressive enough to attack us while we are awake. When visiting Tulane University in New Orleans many years ago I slept in a dormitory room and cockroaches were flying down from the ceiling onto my head. I would guess that these large American cockroaches, _Periplaneta americana_, would be capable of taking a good bite out of me.  Only the larger species could take a bite through our skin. Of course the skin of children is much more tender and vulnerable to a roach bite. If the bite becomes infected it is possible for it to leave a scar.