How many bugs do you eat in your sleep in a lifetime

No matter what generation you grew up in, chances are you heard the rumor that we swallow a certain number of spiders each year as we sleep.

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The truth is that your chances of swallowing a spider while you're asleep are slim to none.

Unlikely Sequence of Events

Not a single study has been done to quantify the number of spiders people swallow while sleeping.

Scientists don't give this topic a moment's glance, however, because it's highly unlikely. You can rest peacefully because the chances of swallowing a spider while you are asleep are almost zero. The only reason researchers don't say the chances are zero is that little is impossible.

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For you to unknowingly swallow a spider in your sleep, a number of unlikely occurrences would have to happen, in sequence:

1. You would have to be sleeping with your mouth wide open. If a spider crawled onto your face and over your lips, you would likely feel it.

   So a spider would have to approach you by descending from the ceiling above you on a silk thread.

2. The spider would
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