Today's trivia: You eat eight spiders every year in your sleep. True?
By super_jj
@super_jj (1416)
Philippines
October 30, 2008 7:58pm CST
Nope, says MythBusters. There's no evidence that spiders secretly crawl into our mouths while we're sleeping. Even if you were lying perfectly still, your breathing would scare a spider off, so it's unlikely to hang out around your mouth. Alas, the bad news: You probably consume more spiders when you are awake -- in your food. Here's why: The Food and Drug Administration guidelines allow a certain level of whole insects or parts in some food products, such as those containing fruits or vegetables. Yum.
- from http://find.msn.com/search.aspx?q=Eat+spiders+in+our+sleep&c=0728+Eat+spiders+in+our+sleep&form=MSNIIT
Ew. Even if we dont eat live spiders, it's still gross knowing that we have insects mixed in our food.
Anyway, i seem to be posting a lot about spiders. Is it just me or did you notice it too? Hehehehehe.
Anyway, opinions and ideas, people. You know you're all very welcome here.
14 responses
@Munchkin547 (2778)
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31 Oct 08
ew, gross!! i have heard the one about eating spiders in our sleep before but i didn't really believe it! it's disgusting to think that we eat them in our food, i guess that's just another argument for home cooking!! lol xxx
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@Munchkin547 (2778)
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3 Nov 08
hehe aw, well you best get into the kitchen then jj!! either that or pop over on a sunday afternoon for one of my famous roast dinners! hehe xxx
@mands61123 (2098)
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31 Oct 08
ewwww thats not nice i don't mind eating the fake ones filled with goo for halloween and have had my share of worms and maggots as a kid but yuk thats just rank *gags* thanks for that jj.
If anyone needs diet tips just read jj's trivia just before your hungry can garentee you won't be hungry anymore. Having fun with your pet snake *wink*
Naughty you! I wonder what got into my "wholesome" friend tonight...hmmm... Must be the "snakes"? Hahahahahahahaha. 
@wunovakind2 (378)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Oh thank god that is a myth... heh. Well I read that also, a lot of the pink coloring in our food, ie. pink colored soda is made up of little crushed bugs. And once, my cousins brought corn they picked.. or bought from the farm or something fresh, and when they opened it, I saw bugs and everything inside. I couldn't stand to eat corn for a while. It was absolutely disgusting lol..
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@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
31 Oct 08
i dont know if that is true or not, but I hear that the bugs in the corn not only partially give it the good savory taste it has, but it is also what protects it from harmful bugs. and animals.
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@ssj3goku (113)
• United States
31 Oct 08
I heard about this too. crazy stuff. Another think I learned while in school always stuck with me as well. In math my teacher assigned us a problem regarding the concentration of pollutants in drinking water. My teacher stated that the function of human excrement in drinking water is related to population of the city upstream. And we had to determine whether there was an acceptable level of feces in the drinking water. Apparently there is an acceptable level!! Wow Crazy things we consume right?
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@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
31 Oct 08
Not to gross you out or anything, but also think about those who live near a resevoir( like me) who go to the restroom, water goes through a so called " filter" then is re-given to us as drinking water? Great we are drinking our urine!
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@vrtrooper89 (64)
• Philippines
31 Oct 08
if it's true..i will put some tape on my mouth b4 goin to bed..man dats hilarious!!
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@creative_genius (992)
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31 Oct 08
Ewwwwwwww not something I want to be thinking about...
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@arunks_1987 (88)
• India
31 Oct 08
hey you are joking right?..... how will i sleep toda.......huh to ugly and scary my dear
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@mercuryman3a (2477)
• India
31 Oct 08
I don't think we eat 8 spiders, but certainly we do eat up many more insects in our food. Thre are so many tiny insects flying around that quite often some can miss your eyes and get into yur food unnoticed. They are so tiny that they do nt affect the taste so yo harldy notice it too. it really does not matter does it?
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@Metalchick (1391)
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31 Oct 08
Phew!!!! it's a myth. Still a bit concerning though that you probably eat more in your food. I know my dad when he was younger went to take a sip out of a canned soft drink only to see a leg of a spider crawl out from inside. It put him off and it's nearly put me off drinking out of cans.
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@cndn420 (2062)
• Canada
31 Oct 08
ya i've heard about the little amounts of nasty things that are allowed in certain foods and its disgusting!
since you've brought up Mythbusters, i don't agree with alot of things they say or "proove". it depends on some of their experiments and how they construct them to see how accurate they can make a result.
i dont know if its true about the spiders, but i have heard about it before, ive heard it was about 8 spiders a year while you sleep, but who knows!! 
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@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
31 Oct 08
haha! You are probably right, we eat stuff when we dont know what might be in it. For example, which I am still laughing about even tonight, but my brother wen to go get a cup of coffeee that he brewed, and he actually drunk a bug: rofl! it was classic! But anyway, yea it is a natural insticnt I guess when we see food to eat, cause when we eat we dont think about what is in it, like - eats a spaghetti- mm yummy has peperika, and this and that...- no we dont do that, we just eat and go yuummy! Well...I guess if you actually tasted toe bugs you may go " YUCK!" but oh well life goes on:P
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