OT? Sand in your eyes

Sometimes, at the tear duct in the corner. Just a speck of probably dried minerals or similar.

It's the detritus from that ages old never-ending battle -

- it happens every night while you sleep - The EyeLash Mites vs The Wee Spiders. Google search eyelash mites at your peril. Wee Spiders have washed the internet of themselves, but trust me .. they live in your pillow. You have been warned. John T.

I once heard that the average person swallows 8 spiders a year, while sleeping.

I'd love to read the experimental protocol that was used to make that discovery!

" We'll all eat a peck of dirt before we die. " .. Ethel my MIL. John T.

I dont tthink she means mites, and I don't want to suggest to her that she has them. I give her enough grief already.

I can handle it. I haven't had screens in my windows for 10 years and I leave the windows open 4 or more months a year.

It's simple. You do pulmonoscopy (right word?) once a year and count the number of spider carcasses you see, then subtract the number you saw a year earlier. Wait, I thought they were inhaled, but hs said swallowed. That's harder. Give me time to consult with my research staff.

Myth

Most of my staff had gone home by 4:30, the time of my last post, but I can pretty easily make a conference call to all 32 at once, so I did. I got 29 of them on the call and one suggested when you already have a sample population that is getting blood tests at least every 6 months, that the original researchers that Mark referred to might have had, that you just add one more test to the blood sample, for the level of aracninase. The body makes that when you eat spiders, to help in their digestion. I'll have to ask for that next time I need a blood test.

I don't think people sleep with the mouth wide open.

On what do you base that assumption?

Plenty of people have congested noses much of the time.

You know what clinical psychologists and psychiatrists say about neologists? (Personally, I regard it is a sign of intelligence, not psychosis.) Consider Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll and James Joyce just to name three; or maybe they were actually intelligent psychotics?

And spiders don't need the mouth to be *wide* open. They are small and they know how to crouch down like limbo dancers. And when one gets in, he invites his cousins.

I do sleep with my mouth open a bit. After reading this thread, I'm thinking I should paste some screen across my lips at night.

Just pull a nylon stocking over your head when you sleep. That will protect your nostrils, ear canals and oral cavity all at the same time. You will also be protected if you sleep with your eyes open; cockroaches won't be able to gnaw at your eyeballs.

He lives in Florida. You should see the cockroaches down there. Once in Georgia at a hotel I saw them under a bed.

They make a special tape to tape your mouth closed at night. They claim to sell it for people that get a painful dry tongue from sleeping with your mouth open, but now we can guess they sell it for people with arachnophobia.

Most people here also have an exterminator too. I got one after an ant invasion after only a few months here. Worth the money.

Probably hiding from you.

My nephew in Florida got one for his 10th birthday.