Can You Eat Spiders While Sleeping?

If you have a love of spiders, you may have heard of an urban legend. You see, some people claim that you can actually swallow a spider while you’re sleeping. In actuality, this is a very unlikely occurrence.

The idea of swallowing a spider while you’re sleeping is an interesting and if not slightly bizarre concept. However, it is a bit of a hoax.

Unlike the majority of myths about spiders, swallowing a spider while you’re asleep is not a reality. Apparently, there are several unlikely conditions you must have in order to make it work.

For one, you’d have to have a mouth that’s wide open while you’re sleeping. Most people don’t. Another unlikely scenario would involve a spider falling from the ceiling.

Finally, you’d have to have the correct jawline position. This may be the most important part, but it’s still not a guarantee. It is possible, but the odds are not in your favor.

While you’re at it, you can’t be too sure of the other details. For example, it’s not clear whether a spider would want to swallow you in the first place, and it’s also not known for sure if the spider itself would swallow you.

There’s also the fact that the most likely thing that would happen is you’d wake up. And if you do, it’s probably something that you haven’t really noticed.

Nevertheless, you’ll still have to swallow the spider. Whether or not you are able to do this is another question entirely.

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