they may be creepy and crawly, but spiders are more like us than we realize. *** new study out of Germany finds arachnids, specifically jumping spiders can does in *** dreamlike state with rapid eye ...

Spiders might keep some arachnophobes up at night — but do the creepy crawlers get any shuteye themselves? A new study leads some scientists to believe spiders may snooze just as humans do. The ...

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NEW YORK — It’s a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a question that keeps ...

Jumping spiders appear to move their eyes during sleep, similar to the way humans do during REM sleep — raising the question of whether spiders might dream as well. If you have ever seen a close-up ...

Do you remember what you dreamed last night? Whatever it was, the dream most likely took place during a sleep phase that is called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep is characterized by rapid ...

Urban legend has led many to believe that we eat spiders in our sleep, up to as many as eight a year. To put at ease the 3%-15% of people who suffer from arachnophobia (the intense and irrational fear ...

Social media posts that claim we swallow several spiders while sleeping have been horrifying people online for years. Some of the claims suggest humans swallow up to eight spiders per year in their ...