Do We Really Swallow 8 Spiders In Our Sleep Every Year?
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- Do we really inadvertently swallow 8 spiders every year while we’re asleep? What are the chances of creepy crawlies venturing into your cavernous snoring mouth? What is the science behind it all? Plus learn more as we investigate this long held belief.
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Researcher / Writer - Mark W
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Have you ever woken up to unexpected creature on your person?
Aye, me also, but not sure what was worse the cockroach event…or the huntsman spider event. Felt a probably 3.5”-4” spider take off across my face and decided that night, “That’s it!” and had to kill the ones that came inside the house, but still left the ones outside alone.
I often wake up to find I've attracted a 35kg dog lying on my back. I also used to wake up to a vibrating cat on my chest
@@werxeh 🤣🤣🤣
How long between washes before bedsheets qualify as living things? (Things got pretty grim in my student house after our washing machine broke down)
@@accidentinstrument Nice Stimpy pfp
I woke up to a cockroach running over my face once 😖
Same! Pretty awful experience cause you wake up KNOWING what just happened. God that sucks
Woah! What did you do?
@@DebunkedOfficial I spent about an hour trying to find it, because I knew I wouldn’t sleep otherwise. I eventually caught and evicted it over the balcony. I slept well after that 😂
Thank you for ruining my day. I hate you forever.
@@learnmoreabout I would get in a hot shower and wash my face for 1 hour 😂😂😂😂
While comparing American house spiders to European house spiders, don't forget to also provide info on Austrailian house owner spiders.
Those are not eaten by Australians, it's the other way around.
@@burieddreamer Oh, yeah, completely forgot.
Australia spiders 🕷️ kill you and drag you out of the house. Then they kill your dog and knock your car over as they leave.
@@Crimson_Hawk_01 And then they casually make a chute out of their web and fly away within a huge horde of their mates. And yeah, they call each other mates and wear thongs on their legs.
If we do swallow spiders when we sleep, then thats just a free protein generator
Cool
I have woken up at least 2 times in the night to find a spider hanging over my head. I don't know if they are doing it out of sheer bravado or insanity but it happens, so yes in my opinion you can indeed swallow spiders in your sleep.
I used to have nightmares of a spider hovering over my face. I'd wake up and whip my blanket up to catch the spider and beat it to death. I would then turn on the light to realize the spider was never there. 😂 It happened a lot. Thanks for the reminder and for my future nightmare. 😉
Yes one time it was very close to my head maybe some spiders are more stupid
Cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap cap that's not called eating spiders that's called spiders hanging over your head.
One more vid before bed
The vid
Maybe the myth originates from the fact that many people do call any arachnid a spider. Mites are also arachnid, so they belong to the same biological class as all spiders do. And several thousands of those may in fact live in your bed (they eat dead skin cells and a bed where you spend 6-8 hours a day is a great source for those) and yes, you might swallow one of them every now and then, as a mite is smaller than 1 mm (less than 0.04") in size, so you would barely ever see it.
Thanks, I won't sleep in a bed again
One day when waking up in the dark, i reached for my glass of water, took a sip, and i started to feel something.. not liquid.. i spitted it out on the floor. it turned out to be spider legs
😖 That has to be one of the worst ways to wake up!
@@DebunkedOfficial indeed xD
Sure there was only a leg inside before you took a sip? 😬
@@yced101 well i've never found the rest of the body of the spider but i don't think i've swallowed it so i don't know... just saw legs on the floor
@@daemonsoadfan😮😮😮😮
I discovered a long time ago that this concept tricked me badly so that's why I fact check everything now before passing the info along. I really hate making retractions.
That's exactly why I subscribed. I love this channel 👍
Thank you for subscribing! What was the first video that made you sub?
“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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I've woken up 4 times in my life with a spider hanging inches over my head. The first time was when I was sleeping. And the last time was just a week ago when I was at my computer, I just so happened to have leaned to the side to grab something off the floor to see a spider hanging where my head was. Who knows what's happening when I'm asleep. 🤔
Dude, the spider isn't stupid enough to suicide in your mouth.
That "spider assault when we're at our computer" thing happened to me twice, but they aren't doing that to attack us, they're just joining the higher objet (the nearest from the ceiling), because either they want to join another floor (you or your desk or the floor of your room) where to find more food (insects), or they are in search of a summit to attach their web to.
Australians swallow millions of spiders a year probably. So this is true 😯
🤣 millions!
Haha good joke australian spiders wont fit in human mouth
@@furkangulbilBut humans fit in Australian spider mouths.
"Spiders are wiser than to enter your snoring mouth"
So, are there also mentally retarded spiders by any chance? Let me introduce to this thing called Gauss curve.
Well I mean…not in my sleep
😂
As yes a non-American.
Being skeptical helps you to avoid beliefs like this. :D
Average person eats 3 spiders a year actually statistical error. Average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Image eating some many spiders most people focus on you for changing the statistics.
Stung by scorpions on two different occasions while sleeping... I think I'd rather eat the spider!
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Woah, do you know what types they were? Did you have a bad reaction? Thanks commenting!
@@DebunkedOfficial they are the common scorpion in Southern Texas, not real venomous, but painful nonetheless! I've actually been stung 5 different times, but only twice in my sleep. It swells up, it's painful, but it goes away in a few hours... Thanks for the great content!
Goodness where do you live?!
@@Quickened1 Bloody hell! Is that while camping or something, or do they just find their way into your bedroom in your neck of the woods?
One night I was laying in bed on my phone and a spider crawled across my face 😣
I've had this happen to me too. 😂
I've missed checking your videos! Hopefully got the bell and won't miss then anymore! 🎉
I never believed it because I figured there would never be a good way to really study this with a big enough population.
There's no way it could possibly be true. That would be an average of 64,000,000,000 spiders suiciding every year lmfao
yeah, it's a few orders of magnitude off.
How many house spiders are there?
my estimate is 10, using my own dwelling as a reference.
Spiders are very elegant and beautiful animals.
My sisters ex woke up to a spider crawling on his boxers, and his response was naturally to smack it, and his nuts in the process.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like that was worth it
Suicide bomber spider
Damn I was hoping the ants I ate were getting along with them
😆 Thanks for watching
Yeah, it's not true. We eat 10 spiders per year at night.
Indians don't even a single 🤝
Spider George strikes again!
I love that this video doesn't show an annoying random sponsor.
Cyclists eat flying insects almost every ride
Lol, that's very true! Thanks for your comment
Even runners, I've lost count the amount of times I've choked on a small fly.
Agree with that too!
Neat. Also a relief. Though I always wondered how they would get that info in the 1st place. Watch thousands of people in their sleep? And not say anything while spiders are crawling in their mouths?
Thanks for debunking this myth
I know how many spiders I eat while awake:
One bowl a day!
But does the FDA publish guidelines on the number of arachnid parts that can occur in food?
This one's definitely bound to please some archnophobes.
Hopefully it will help them rest easier! I used to be scared of spiders when I was a kid and then essentially decided not to be anymore. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@DebunkedOfficial Been a while since I've seen a video from the channel! Love your stuff! Great work from the team!
Thanks!
Well I'm glad you're seeing my videos in your feed now! We've been releasing relatively regularly for the last couple years.
I have halitosis so no worries here, mate. That is why my nickname is 'death breath' for a reason.
Interesting approach to repelling spiders
John the spider eater is bumping up all that number for us
Never heard of that one.
The simplest way to disprove this is to ask: How did they get this statistic?
If it happens when you're asleep, then how do you know? How do they figure it out? Is it a questionnaire? Is there a question saying, "How many spiders have you eaten without waking up during the last year?"
It's referred to as FUD, Fear Uncertainty Doubt. Make up a scenario that people fear, after the split second of believing it people become uncertain, so they look it up. "Research about spiders eaten at night." 0 articles. Hmm, what about "Spiders eaten." Some articles, but they are about survival, or replacing farm animals in your diet. So then, after failing any article that clearly and directly disputes this made up scenario, you have a remaining doubt.
It's not true, surely. Maybe I'll check my bedroom for spiders though. Just in case.
When used for "arachnoidea somnolence mastication" it can trigger urban legends and myths, and possibly some researchers disputing it officially to stop the nonsense. But there's plenty of situations where FUD is used to influence people.
Look at fake claims of crimes by political candidates. Most don't fall for it, but people that are uncertain might fear it's true, then look for proof and can't find any official investigation at all. Then when the time to vote comes around some people go "Surely that candidate would have been in the news if it was true. But perhaps this *other* candidate is a better choice, that way I won't risk voting for someone who's a criminal." Diluting votes, especially in a voting system where you get a single vote and it is discounted if the candidate doesn't get most votes, resulting in a "just to be safe" mentality in a vote being lost entirely, even if you don't directly vote against the opposition.
Just think about it, I'm sure there's cases of you having heard a similar FUD campaign, and there's even a chance you avoided a product, store, area, person, or other. For no reason other than "Well, I couldn't find compelling evidence that it's *not* true, so just to be on the safe side I'll avoid it." It's how someone that isn't really against something, but fell for FUD winds up helping isolate a person or a group of people. Sometimes it even happens subconsciously.
Don't want to know the actual answer. I just hope I don't consume any insects unknowingly. 😅
Ah well you should definitely keep watching 😉 Thanks for commenting!
@DebunkedOfficial I have watched and I am pleased to know that I don't eat bugs unknowingly...the more disturbing fact is that I eat them knowingly. 😄 Either way great video and hair as always, keep it up !
I've never felt bothered 😅If an average guy consumes 8 spiders a year, than I might become spiderman tomorrow
a 20 second unskipple ad? that's a first
YT must be testing you patience. Thanks for sticking with it 👍
The real question is how many ads do we swallow a day?
Probably a bit uk-centric this one, but another dodgy sounding spider fact that I was told as a kid is that they hate conkers and that if you scatter them about the place at home you won’t get any spiders 😂
I remember that being a thing!
Okay, some or at least one of us is of British extract but raised in America, so I had to look up what Conkers are in American speak. Horse Chestnuts. In America they are known as Buckeye or European horse chestnuts. There's also a nutritional supplement made from water Chestnuts that my parents consumed for their health but otherwise they are not healthy to eat. Thanks for your information.
I think water chestnuts and horse chestnuts are different. Buckeye is definitely a cooler word than conkers though 😆
@@nschlaak Buckeyes? You telling me Ohio repels spiders?
@@accidentinstrument Yes indeed the Water Chesnuts are different from Chestnuts although very similar in appearance. Personally, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart at a shop unless I was at first presented with the differences. Thank you for your reply.
this is great, who needs sleep anyways
I am looking for some help on a myth.
it is a historical topic, happening in the 30 year war.
General Ernest von Mansfeld came to the end of his life.
He insisted that he would be dying standing up. This was helped by two of his closest friends who would keep him standing up.
The question now on this almost bizarre event, why did he do that?
You find a decent amount of documents on this war, but I could not find anyone even trying to give an explanation.
Any clues from the research team?
how would you meassure the number 8 though
If i don't realize im eating some amount of insect material mixed in my food, it makes no difference to me.
My pal Reinfield eats 8 spiders every night before bed.
I was camping once and i woke up in the middle of the night after i felt something heavy and furry crawling over my face and when i woke up and pulled out my flash light i saw like 4 or 5 mice looking back at me
"among us"
New fear unlocked 😱
😄 Sorry about that!
I always doubted that bugs would really be so stupid that this would be a common phenomenon.
I'm pretty sure I heard that when I was a kid in the early 80s
Wait let ‘em cook, I got the biggest business model ready to start: I can tell what has happened in your past.
You’ve eaten almost 8 spiders already we’re almost at the end of the year, now pay me $10.
Can the debunked team answer my question in the next video which states that how many lasers do we need to blind ourselves or to burn through metal etc.
I've nearly swallowed spiders dangling down from the ceiling whilst awake. Those really small ones, money spiders? Either way, I can imagine I've accidentally inhaled one of those in my sleep on occasion
You should kill those spider man
@@loify8381 meh, they're not doing any harm. And they're web spinners so I imagine they get rid of some annoying little flies
"Now, i know most of you watching will be arachnophobes, so here are multiple high quality close ups of the grimmest looking spiders we could find!!"
I’m watching this in bed
Thanks
I hope you slept well?
When i was maybe 5-7 y.o, i remember one night, waking up to a tarantula on my pillow maybe 5in away from me and i freaked out and ran to my parents. My dad went to look and didnt see anything, so i tried to go back to sleep. But i woke up not too long after and saw a turtle in the same spot and ran to tell my dad again, i think 😂
So yeah it was just my imagination/a dream lmao
Protein 👍
A good way to look at it 👌
In Mexico, we eat crickets as snacks even before the Spaniards arrived in the 1500’s
What do they taste like?
@@accidentinstrument mostly salty, but depending on the particular preparation can be a bit more acid or a bit spicy.
I like adding a splash of lime 🍋
@@lizdierdorf sounds quite good!
House centipede crawling on bare stomach.
😱
More free protein.
I tell people this, but per night.
Om nom nom.
They used to sell baked tarantulas in Fortnum and Mason's, the ultra-posh food shop in London. No thanks!
😖 No thank you indeed!
Its sort of true. Most people dont eat spiders, but spiders georg who lives in a cave eats 64,000,000,000 a year, meaning that is the mean amount.
I'll say false. Because we would feel them crawling in our mouths
you are not making me eat bugs.
😆
One time I woke up with a stinkbug wing in my teeth😣
did it taste like stinkbug?
Debunked what nightmares you have when sleeping?
Mostly anxiety ones. You?
I knew this already, lot of facts are myths
The first time I heard this myth was around 1994-95.
Was it word of mouth or from an article of some sort?
@@DebunkedOfficialI believe it was from an old book titled Old Wives Tales, but I'm not certain if that's the correct full title, or if it was actually all that old at the time, the book was small and red.
@@chadatchison145 thanks for the info!
HE SAID AMONG US!
I only know a false fact about spiders is "bitten by a radioactive spider" until i watched this video..
Never happened to me luckily
Oh no
I know this predates 99 because I was told it before i hit 10yrs in 95.
Not going to say first just want to say have a good year
You too mate :)
You too! @@phoenix0166
@@DebunkedOfficial thank you
@@phoenix0166 I hope so I really do hope
@@DebunkedOfficial you too lads!
BUGS SPIDERS 😩
me when l was eating i saw a spider on the wall so its disapeard ,
NO.
i am not in google but i am in youtube
I already know thats false, a spider would never crawl inside a month on its own
Eat zee bugs 🥵🦗
3:32 "not true".
No
flase
انا مش فهمك بردو ايه مشكلتك مع ناس دي ؟ مين قال ان الدعايا فرض يبقي زاهد و فقير و ميعملش بزنس يكسب منو زي اي انسان انا مش بدافع عن شخص معين انا بس مش فاهمك !!!
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Third.
first 100 views #69
it s fake you dant swallow spiders in your sleep.
Lisa Birgit Holst?
false
False.
Of course it's false...
23 years later, President Donald Trump and his cult if we todds.