This is what happens when you swallow a spider in your sleep

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It’s late at night and you’re tucked into bed, waiting to fall asleep. Just as you’re finally drifting off, you hear the sound of something moving next to your head. Jolting upright, you check the pillow and surrounding sheets for the source of the noise. But nothing’s there…
Laying back down, you try to relax. As your eyes close, you hear a rustling sound in your left ear. Frantically looking around, again you find nothing.
This is maddening.
You start to wonder…
Is it all in your head?
And when you feel something move inside your ear, you’re horrified by how right you really are.

[@Brew]

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[@Flintstix]

Ty

[@iqzario4animations203]

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[@popcornpizza8869]

I just wanted to sleep in peace

[@sillygoober23]

yaya

[@acemator569]

Yo why don't you animate the brew crew anymore? That's one of the main reasons I subbed, we all miss them dude

[@hannah.kate.]

I woke up once with a fly in my ear - I heard buzzing and scratching and felt the crawling in my ear in the middle of the night. Had I been fully awake, I probably would’ve freaked tf out, but I was so tired and done with the impromptu wakeup call that I distinctly remember thinking “I’m not going to A&E for this”. I plugged my nose with one hand, opened up my ear with the other, and tried to pop my ears. Little f*cker finally flew out after about 30 seconds, I smacked it flat against the wall and I went straight back to sleep 😂

[@Yerinjibbang]

lololool

[@triggeredcat120]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@submarinecat]

I've had a critter inside my ear as a kid. It lived and died there-- its carcass came out together with earwax and it was so mangled and incorporated into the earwax that I couldn't recognize what kind of insect/arachnid it was. It wasn't super traumatic but now in my 30s, I've started to wear my IEMs to sleep, listening to ASMR. Now I'm wondering if I just like ASMR for sleep or my subconscious is just trying to prevent the same ear invasion from happening again.

[@sillygoober23]

Do you know how long it was in there for????

[@cowboy_86]

Which IEMs do you use for sleeping?

[@ckhpersonal670]

Just water it dawg

[@AidingIsKey]

That is terrifying.

[@Bomkz]

@@cowboy_86 i second this question!!

[@ampeater777]

My mom and i have both been bitten by brown recluse spiders. It melted a quarter sized hole on my hip. Mom got it a lot worse, it basically melted the skin off the entire front surface of her knee. It was incredibly disgusting in both cases but oddly not painful for either of us despite the obvious severity of the wounds

[@Accrovideogames]

The lack of pain is due to the paralysis. Anesthesia is based on a similar concept.

[@elliottmcleandeboer]

Dear god, the cobweb false eardrum is terrifying. Like imagine if the doctor doesn't poke at it, and just concludes the problem must be elsewhere and leaves it alone 😨😭🤢🤢

[@Nikki0417]

I flinched when I saw the spider crawl out of that first guy's ear. This channel is the personification of "new fear unlocked".

[@OG_Cool_Cat]

If you have protective cats, it’s rare that any bug makes it anywhere near the bedroom. If one does and I yell, my girl Luna comes quick! 😊

[@necrocomicon8]

Canadian, in a massive cold snap here, like -50°C cold, I will take this over spiders in my ear any day.

[@kyliCatherine1]

As much as I’m not a fan of cold weather, I would have to agree with you on this one.

[@imafreakinninja12]

That's what I always told people while I was traveling. I would take -30 degree temps in Illinois and not put up with the wild life. I was told by family members "OMG, Australia has such diverse wild life," and I'm like "Ooh just what I wanted: a wide variety of snakes, spiders, and scorpions,"

[@eden.nd.]

I had a live earwig removed from my ears back when I was a teenager after sleeping outside without a tent in a field. Went to a&e thinking I had a pebble or something in there and they had a look and sent me straight to ENT. The specialist said it was only his 2nd live insect in over 30 years in the field!

[@acemator569]

is brew going to animate his videos with himself in them anymore?

[@theunknownchampion9492]

Was wondering

[@iqzario4animations203]

Bro I haven’t been up to date on all brew videos but, if the tardigrade is gone imma cry😭😭

[@unreal4good367]

I miss those types of videos, they were the reason I subscribed in the first place

[@Anuyushi]

I don't mind the new style but I wish there was both. I liked our scraggly STEM major

[@simonw.1223]

​@@unreal4good367 yes and like the other 3 humans amd the 2 non human characters

[@remixsparten98]

What a unfortunate day to have functioning eyes and ears.

[@stars_of_destiny]

Ikr like oml now I feel them everywhere on my body rn 💀💀💀💀💀

[@HyperWolf]

@@stars_of_destinyI’m watching it a month late but I’m itching all over just seeing this. I’m also very suspicious of my headphones.

[@stars_of_destiny]

@@HyperWolf ikr 💀💀💀💀

[@uutdiegodzilla3821]

That whole "spider in the ear canal" thing actually made me happy! First of all, because I live in a part of the world where there is only one type of spider living that's strong enough to bite humans, and those are too big to fit in anyone's earhole. And secondly, the one time in the US a spider bit me during the night, it was only a relatively harmless mountain spider, and it bit me behind the ear. 😅

[@apple-cv2xj]

Sorry to put the fear back in ya, but sure the adults can't fit. The babies and juveniles on the other ear, are plenty small enough to wiggle on in.

[@uutdiegodzilla3821]

@@apple-cv2xj Yes, of course they could! 👍🏻 But given my careless personality and habits, they'd be crushed within 24 hours. I tend to have allergies all year round, and therefore my ear canals are itching pretty often. And I know that's an absolute No-Go, but I usually take a cotton swab, stick it into my ear and wiggle around, until the itch is relieved. And maybe this may lead to a tiny spider biting me one day. And this then will be a major inconvenience, and also pretty painful, I'd guess. So, let's hope this never happens!

[@gailneal]

Heard an interview with a couple of entomologists a few years ago. They said: "What spider would crawl into the giant snore-hole of death?"

[@krumelkatze6558]

My family doctor said at the time that spiders don't actually do that and that it is very rare. And when I was on vacation with my family in Denmark, I slept in a hut that was full of spiders at night and I slept in there for a week and nothing happened.

[@platapusdemon]

Now the middle of the night ear tingles I've had in the past are a thousand percent more concerning 😅

[@kairi4640]

I know what you mean. I'm paranoid as heck now. 😂

[@TheGreatest54646]

I already had a hard enough time sleeping because my eyes, now this. 😂

[@SgtSupaman]

I have little doubt that people have swallowed spiders in their sleep. The house I grew up in very often had brown recluses ("very often" here meaning they could be found almost daily). I had even woken up to one just sitting on my chest. The biggest issue with the "8 spiders" thing, to me, is that there is no way to even try to track this statistic. The whole point is that you wouldn't know that you've done it.

[@infinitedeath1384]

And people say Australia is the worst place to live, because of the spiders. The deadliest spider isn't even in Australia; it's the Brazilian wandering spider.

[@buh_planecrazy]

Pretty sure Australia leads the world in its number of resident venomous spiders as well as the strength of their toxicity@@infinitedeath1384

[@dr.altoclef9255]

As it turns out most people eat no spiders in their sleep, there’s a guy who just eats millions of them who threw off the count.

[@draculastraphouse7863]

I woke up to a spider crawling on my pillow in front of my face, so I grabbed it and crushed it in my hand, wiped my hand on the side of my bed and went right back to sleep. Was too tired to get up

[@mantroll2891]

​@@draculastraphouse7863bro literally woke up and chose violence

[@kristenw2147]

40 years ago (64 yrs. old now) woke up from banging and crinkling noises in my ear. I asked my boyfriend to take a look. A large spider ran out at him and he shrieked like a little girl. I was laughing too hard from his reaction to be upset. Rinsed my ear with baby oil just in case it left something behind.

[@aquariandawn4750]

One time I surprised three raccoons and one of them got up on my chest and was holding on to me with its creepy little hands and I was able to get it off and as I'm standing there trying to get my breath back as man comes running up from out of nowhere he says I heard a woman scream, I said I did too

[@Richard.Sanchez]

In middle school, a kid had a cricket fly into his ear. Every time it would buzz he would scream.

[@Alesha_Lewer]

Oh dear god this is my worst nightmare, I’ve had a spider in my ear before and it’s genuinely as bad as you think it is. It hurts, it moves, you can hear it and oh it hurts a lot. It sounds like water in your ear which is what I thought it was-until the spider crawled out of my ear while I was driving I’ve slept with cotton buds in my ears ever since

[@raccoons_on_rice]

As I'm watching this, I'm wearing headphones and I have a slight ringing in my left ear, now I feel like I might need to get a bane of arthropods enchantment on my head

[@raven4090]

Now I'm glad that I can't sleep with my mouth open. Even if I try to when I have a cold.

[@chandramoulimukherjee6653]

Brew really helps me discover phobias I never thought I had.

[@victoriakalberg9590]

😂 the only spider I like is the little jumper that has 4 eyes and they move their cute heads

[@Igameforlife-rn1fu]

Brew never fails to make me more insecure about daily things I do

[@joeshabado1431]

Now I'm really glad I got into the habit of wearing over ear headphones to sleep.

[@LloydGodOfVoid]

Who else got scared by the spider jumpscare? 😅

[@CrashMikuNFS]

While the jumpscare didn't startle me, I wasn't expecting the jumpscare at all.

[@chisaki703]

My heart jumped😭

[@jyu5471]

I was scared like I jump and almost screamed

[@KitsuyuutsuR]

I screamed and freaked out. I’m terrified of spiders

[@tsoonklah]

Love your work & interesting stories!

[@DL-idk]

Thanks. I’ll remember to put on my earplugs before sleep from now on.

[@aquariandawn4750]

And your nose?

[@Cyoulaterbud]

And your mouth?

[@balanc-joy9187]

Wow, and I thought finding larder beetles on my easy chair, and having a bee sting me in the mouth after it flew into a bottle of soda before I tried to drink it were bad...

[@yimwee2401]

Ok, the bee in a bottle one is terrifying

[@balanc-joy9187]

@@yimwee2401 Be glad it's just a _story_ for you. I _lived_ it!

[@Mifey05]

That brown recluse jumpscare is uncalled for bruh

[@ravenfaebowie]

That's it. I'm sleeping with a pair of tights over my head

[@husseinmustafa4155]

Watching this while going to sleep is terrifying

[@jethenoobgamer]

I feared spiders before this video... now I fear them even more

[@AlexMint]

Half of these spiders would almost be cute if they weren't causing such problems. Not the recluse though, those things scare me and are known to be aggressive in the wood pile.

[@Nylak-Otter]

My recluses aren't aggressive unless you hurt them. Just wear gloves and watch where you're putting your hands, and don't let logs tumble or shift off the pile. Same thing as indoors; shake out your sheets, loose clothes and shoes before use. They'll just run off rather than try to bite you. Even if they do bite, the bites are quite easy to treat, especially if you go to a doctor or urgent care for extra treatment. I find their toxicity to be greatly exaggerated, in my personal experience.

[@IWantToPetYourDog]

@@Nylak-Otter The kid in one video had a brown recluse in his sock and it bit him. I don't remember his fate.

[@Nylak-Otter]

@@IWantToPetYourDog Yeah, I've been bitten by two (always when I stuck a body part in a place it shouldn't have been). It's not really a life or death scenario as long as you don't ignore the wound. In fact, there hasn't been a confirmed death caused by a recluse spider bite in the US yet.

[@raven4090]

​@@IWantToPetYourDogI think that kid died, but it's been a long time since I watched that one, so I'll have to check it out again because I'm curious now.

[@kylelozensky5601]

This is probably the scariest video I’ve ever seen. Thanks

[@draculastraphouse7863]

Are you 6 years old?

[@curememini]

stop giving me new fears ...

[@IsaacAlucard]

Cheers to everyone that kept feeling itchy throughout the video in their ears Im pretty sure i dont have any problems with my ears lol

[@Johari21]

Fr

[@thejulianleeshow]

Are you sure though?

[@brashfix]

First the 2 side characters dissapeared, and now you! Brew doesn't feel the same anymore altough I still enjoy the videos.

[@turtlehermit6047]

Knew a guy who ate a dead brown recluse Spider on a bet. He ended up having most of his intestinal track removed. It was a bad decision.😑 My aunt had a big roach in her ear. If your around bugs..put something in your ears when you sleep.

[@whoisbridgewater]

thank you for this

[@scottcol23]

This is the perfect video to watch right before bed.

[@Catwithnohead]

Don't be scared I know about spiders and these were jumping spiders in the ear footage videos they can't hurt you Even if they wanted to. They are really sweet creatures and I recommend researching them if you don't know about them, They made me like spiders lmao

[@foxbuns]

did you miss the part where she had a family of brown recluse (highly poisonous) in there?

[@Nylak-Otter]

Meh, I used to live surrounded by black widows and brown recluse in my house and property, and I never had any problems. As long as you don't harm them accidentally, you're good. Just shake out your clothes, shoes and sheets before you use them. That said, I still put an effort into outcompeting them with wolf spiders and cellar spiders, so now I'm mostly widow and recluse free.

[@apgamer4053]

Tysm I'm gona glue my headphones to my head and live with them on forever never taking them off again tyvm 😢

[@CIoudStriker]

I find it kind of interesting that all the ear-dwelling arachnids appear to be jumping spiders. Weird little detail there.

[@lexibat7829]

Except for the brown recluse...

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

0:55 Our teacher told us this but he also says they're not big like tarantulas are. I guess some people were thinking that. 1:19 I wouldn't want that in my mouth. 5:29 I don't want to watch this anymore (¬▂¬). The Brown Death? I heard of Black Death. Thank god I am outside the area where the brown spiders live. 9:03 AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

[@quokkaracha20]

the way most of the the spiders in their ears were jumping spiders lol

[@user-xy5tl9fx1m]

Excellent video, conratulations!!!

[@zxuiji]

brew: "before your appetite is inevitably ruined..." me: ... **continues to eat his chicken**

[@DaDucko12]

watched this an hour before I have to sleep and just as I finished this video did I realize that I would forever have trouble sleeping

[@bansidheaz]

No deaths from brown recluse bites have ever been reported in the United Srates. Most conditions diagnosed as brown reclues bites are actually cases of MRSA and similar conditions.

[@DraconicAux]

aaaaaand that's why I always check my headphones before putting them on. 😅

[@southernfriedwestcoaster]

Having something like a arthropod living in you sounds terrifying and I love spiders

[@livenotonevil8279]

There's nothing more dangerous than the intrusion of the dreaded urethra spider

[@yamaha6981]

If you can hear a spider it's already to late

[@ripteron9495]

what a great vid to watch, before i go to sleep

[@hjonk1351]

If it makes you feel better there is normaly a spider in a 3m radius of you (if your country has spiders)

[@Gamer-dl6cz]

I love your channel. with every video I unlock a new phobia. thanks lol

[@fallenangels5891]

I had a fear of swallowing spiders now I have a fear of spiders in my ears to replace that. Thanks Brew

[@nekomasteryoutube3232]

Thank god the worst I've had try to get in my ear is house flies, fruit flies or mosquitos (as well as into my nose). While a lot less deadly, its still something I dont want to happen (ie it tickles, and I dont much like the thought of a bug, dead or alive, in any part of my body)

[@Typpe_Writer]

my senses hightened so much during this video 😂😂

[@dark_baphomet]

Ive been bitten by a spider and im in the uk, it was a weird looking house spider, not a false widow. It was in the bath and had covered itself in web and i was trying to save it, but it bit me. It has these weird red fangs on its front feelers, i had a photo of it but no idea where thats gone. It went under a glass after that instead of being saved mostly because i wasnt reallt sure what mutant kinda thing it was or if they grow fangs while nesting and thats what it was doing. I dont pick up many spiders with my hands now after that experience. Used to do it all the time, theyre generally really docile, but that has put me right off

[@cydragon2.099]

wow this makes me feel better for putting my clean skullcandy ears in to play calming sound from the Calm app when going to sleep

[@Acro34-tf]

i literally cant sleep again

[@Lakesid]

BROOOO I POPPED MY EAR DURING THIS VIDEO AND IT SCARED ME DO FREAKING BAD

[@Xenonnn]

the way my ear started itching as i watched this

[@annaxuldraugworc7832]

This worsen my arachnophobia, thank you Brew...

[@eastbeast1379]

Funny thing is, I've never heard the eat slider myth, but definitely heard of spiders in ears.

[@MrScaryPasta]

I don’t know about spiders in my ear or mouth, but I have occasionally found dead flies in my ear, nose, and even my eye. I cried out a dead drain fly from my eye just a couple weeks ago. It had burrowed into my flesh and died due to the immense pressure my blinking caused. When I took it out, the fly was squished. Yuck. 🤢

[@hugespicyhuge]

Clean your house. That's a yikes.

[@atharvsharma1866]

i- dont tell me thats a normal thing. please.

[@ZombieSazza]

@@atharvsharma1866it’s not normal, far from normal, I’m wondering what hellscape OP is living in

[@hugespicyhuge]

@@ZombieSazza Ditto.

[@PressXForXavier]

W H A T

[@Sh4d0wA]

8:20 bro made me left my soul 😭

[@galileebashaw7610]

Took the spider senses literally

[@SableCatDog]

Why are so many of them jumping spiders? 😂 Those cheeky little faces trying to look innocent!

[@st_hxvrt]

Imagine even having a spider in ur house…I would burn my house down

[@GMByteJavaTM]

This was almost phisically painful to watch

[@kiddfaith4397]

Never had an ear spider; but I once had an ear fly. Tickled like nothing I’ve ever felt, and it finally crawled out on its own in the doctor’s waiting room about six hours later. 😂

[@a-sleepy-guy]

Finally, the perfect video to Watch at 3 am

[@HebuTheLoneWolf]

i never had 8 legged crawler in my ear but i did have small moth fly directly in my ear when i walked out from garage and i can say it was not fun. the noise made it sound larger and it also got bit painful sine it was panicking in my ear but after going to ER they flushed it out with saline and all was good

[@DireDesirez]

I hate this soo much!! 😖😭🤣Thank You Brew Team ❤

[@stormy3078]

This is so unsettling like brb while I go spray my bed with insecticide

[@HikaruRain]

I do not sleep with my mouth open at all. My tounge rests on the top of my pallate just beind the ridge of my top pallate so I do not bite my tounge in the middle of the night. And my jaw slacks but my lips stay tightly shut. It is the same way my mouth is shut during the day as well. I breath through my nose at all times. Even when it gets stuffed up; due to my ENT fixing my nose he made it so straight that even when my nose gets stuffy I can still breath out of it.

[@pootube2024]

You wouldn't know if your mouth was open in deep sleep cycle,record yourself one night sleeping and then watch.

[@fancyf33t295]

Was having a sleepover with my cousin and an earwig wanted to join the party. Little guy wanted to use my ear as his sleeping den. Freaked me out

[@IWantToPetYourDog]

First, a brown recluse in a kid's sock. Now, a spider in someone's mouth.

[@sahadevsenerath7826]

Sleeping with nets isn't just for mosquitoes

[@saphiremeadows4829]

Oh I love Brew so much but I simply can't bring myself to watch this one.

[@Trinity_403]

thats it, im never sleeping or touching anything with small crevasses ever again

[@QueenSlipperZandPrincess-fk7lw]

I had a friend who once had a crab in his ear Just one of the many joys of being a dive instructor

[@mirandamullins5096]

Watching this while laying in bed in the dark thinking about the pile of clothes on the floor and MY PURSE IS ON THE FLOOR. I’m feeling ✨anxious✨

[@OmegaBlack999]

Brew, Buddy, I could not watch this episode due to the pure squeamishness I have for, well, everything you have going on in this video, XD However, I love all your videos (except this one but not bc it's bad, I'm sure it's every bit as good as all your others) and I always look forward to the next!! Thanks, Brew!!

[@lynaboocreations]

chat is this spiders georg?

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

We have Brown Recluse and Black Widows as far north as north-central Wisconsin. They aren't common, but they aren't rare either.

[@Herowebcomics]

Spiders can hitch a ride in your headphones?! ...Still buying more of them!

[@paulwright8378]

Earwigs sounds like wigs for your ears 😂

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

Oh I don't care I've crushed spiders in my sleep and woken up with dead bits of them as long as they don't get stuck in my ear or leave anything there Its fine, a big one fell off the celing a few months ago and landed on my leg waking me up I instantly knew somehow what woke me up and looked for it because I didn't want to crush it, found it curled up next to my knee playing dead.

[@infinitedeath1384]

That's only happened to me once. Late last year, I had woken up one day with something noticeable on my chest. Got a closer look under light, and it looked like a squished daddy long legs.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

@@infinitedeath1384 well my homes full of spiders I don't get it really my aunts home never seems to get spiders but is full of flies. don't know what happened to all the spiders in that area of the city.

[@infinitedeath1384]

@@GreatSageSunWukong Oh geez, you make it sound like there's a spider in every corner of your house 👀.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

@@infinitedeath1384 pretty much yes

[@infinitedeath1384]

@@GreatSageSunWukong Well I'm in Queensland Australia, and we get a mix. A few spiders around, couple flies, some mozzies and the occasional moth. The moths are the only ones I'm ok with, since they don't fly around much, aren't creepy, and they don't bite. Unfortunately I sometimes get cockroaches as well. Less bugs overall during winter though.

[@hemandy94]

All those puns at the end of the video omg

[@Baldman736]

I’m glad I sleep facing down so I don’t have to worry about this😅

[@evilspyke5760]

999 being an emergency number, has to get a lot of pocket dials...

[@robbeedles2364]

Great videos love em

[@dianasoto7011]

Ive worn earplugs to sleep for over 50 years.

[@Spook666999]

@Brew give us back the Brew crew!

[@saphireflare4183]

Definitely the wrong video to watch right before trying to sleep