Do people really swallow insects and spiders when they sleep

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Some people have said this. I don't think it's true. just why would they go into a place that is deadly to them?

I highly doubt it. Why would people get more spiders/insects on their faces when sleeping than when awake? That doesn't make sense to me, even if the spiders/insects didn't realize they were going somewhere deadly.

For me personally, the feel of the legs on my face would for sure wake me up, and I sleep with my mouth closed anyway.

I don't believe that's true, even though I hear about it all the time. I think people say that to reassure people who have a fear of spiders, but that still doesn't make me feel any less fearful of them.

Anyway, I sleep with my mouth closed (as I've been told by my boyfriend), so insects couldn't get into my mouth anyway.

Anyway, why would spiders just crawl across your pillow and make their way to your mouth nearly every night?

I've seen episodes of Untold Stories from the ER where patients came in after an insect crawled inside their ear while they were asleep, and now they're freaking out because they can feel the bug moving or buzzing inside it, which apparently sounds a helicopter when it's right next to your eardrum.

One lady had a June bug stuck in her ear. She must have had really big ear canals, because June bugs are not tiny!

They were able to remove the insects, but it made me consider stuffing cotton in my ears before going to bed.

It reminds me of that urban myth about earwigs, where they can supposedly crawl inside your ear, then slowly eat their way through your brain and come out your other ear. According to the myth, people can survive this with no unusual problems, except maybe a beam of light can now shine in one one ear and come out the other...unless it's a female earwig who is about to lay her eggs.

No, I prefer eating spiders while I'm awake.

But only the very big, fat, and juicy ones.

Little ones don't have enough flavor.

While it can happen on occasion, the stats are a myth.

All the time, as many as possible. Oh wait...when asleep? Idk. Hopefully lots.

If only that were true.

If our mouths were magnets for "micro wild game animals" stampeding themselves into our stomachs, then we would get all of our high quality protein in our sleep.

We would be like baleen whales living off krill (except that whales have to swim, we would be able to do it our sleep).

Then when we awoke we only need to eat veggies, and grapefruits. No need to worry about red meat, diary, fish, or even soy substitutes because we would already have swallowed all of the animal protein we would need.

Would eliminate most of our grocery bills, as well as eliminating the need for the entire livestock industry.

Midnight snack.Yummm.
If you get an insect in your ear you might be able to lure it out by placing a flashlight to the ear,or flush out with water.

It's like the old "if a tree falls in the forest" dilemma.
If you swallow spiders at night but you don't know you are swallowing spiders, are you actually swallowing spiders?

On a cold night a bug might take refuge in your nostril, or in your ear. But even that's a once in a decade thing.

I doubt that they would be drown to your mouth. And if they were you never need to worry about an entire one of the three major food groups (like I said above).

In an ep of Rocko's Modern Life a fly got sucked into Rocko's nose when Rocko breathed in. Maybe this is how people swallow bugs when they're asleep. Someone sleeps with their mouth open & bugs get to close & get sucked in.

I don't know. But if we do, it's unlikely to be dangerous.

I woke up with a crushed spider on my pillow once though, so maybe I was close. Maybe it was suicidal?

It isn't impossible but you would probably have to be living in a jungle or a very dirty basement in order to eat any and even then you would probably be eating like one spider a year or so.

How many times a year do you see spiders walking around in your room? How many of those spiders were near your bed? Near your pillow? Did any of them ever get on your face? Then consider what is the chance the spider on your face will get into your open mouth, becomes unable to get out and you can't feel it there so you just swallow it.
Virtually impossible unless you are seeing a swarm of spiders near your bed area everyday and they seem to think you are a moving wall.