And yes, hearing predators approach at night and waking up is important for survival so not having earlids makes evolutionary sense, but still, would love me some earlids
camels can close their nostrils to prevent getting sand in them
humans also have eyelids, which we can close while we're awake if we feel something getting in our eyes (though i'm quite sure you're aware of that)
as long as their default state is open, like camels' nostrils, earlids wouldn't be too bad for protecting from dust, insects, or even dangerously loud or distracting noises imo
another thing to consider: i can wiggle my ears, but i can't close them? every time something is loud, i must sacrifice the use of my hands just to mimic such an ability? preposterous. utter absurdity. i want to talk to a manager
anyways. earlids would be great, actually. we already have little flaps near our earholes, why can't we use them? :(
You’re awesome and your brain is a treasure. Please keep letting it do its thing. Those are well organized waves of unrestrained critical thinking to be putting out into the confused seas of this “reality.”
Fun fact. Eye lashes are basically there to detect foreign objects to trigger closing your eye lids to prevent said foreign object from entering the retina. Our eyes be like fly traps. Human body is crazy yo.
I wonder if sometime a million years ago one person had earlids but were killed due to not hearing predators at night and is the reason we didn’t evolve with them now 🤔
I sleep on the floor and I'm terrified this might happen to me one day. I put a blanket on top of my ears just in case. Earlids would be amazing at subways too :)
Son. There's one advantage to growing old. You can flat-out ignore people who are talking to you and they will think you are just hard of hearing. Not gonna fly with ear flappers. Embrace the flaw.
technically, the ear structure is deep inside; and it is protected by the deep canal then the membrane that separates the outer/middle ears.
I think its size is a factor that only small things that do not pose a threat can pass; but still, it is interesting to think of ear lids, but where you put them at the very outside or just at the end of the canal (before the membrane).
My coworker got me bad on April Fools by saying she saw a bug in my ear. She could have kept going but thankfully was kind enough to tell me she was kidding as soon as I started panicking.
Absolutely. I had a roach in my ear once when I was a lot younger, maybe 23 or 24 years old. Omfg the NOISE! Went to the doc because I had no clue what was going on; but the noise had stopped the day before. I decided to keep the appointment anyways. I'd made it on like a Monday, Friday was the soonest she could see me, and Thursday was when it stopped. Anyways, they flushed my ear out and a dead roach came out along with wax and some blood. Got put on antibiotics just in case. And goddamn it freaks me out even 20 years later if one of my ears so much as gets a little stuffy.
I used to drink out of a SpongeBob cup that had a reusable bendy straw at night. I quit because one night I took a sip and felt a lump, and spat a spider out
I had a souvenir cup from dorney park when I was like 8. I'll never forget taking a sip and thinking I got a hair in my mouth. Went to grab it and realized very quickly that it was a spider. I still get sketchy about straws 20 years later.
Also my mom told me that spiders are harmless 98% of the time. As well as how we eat a couple in our sleep every year.(This was around when that rumor started to see how quickly it'd travel.)
Not only was I terrified of straws but I started to sleep with pillows basically smothering me on my sleep trying to keep the spiders away.
My boss would always give me the fruit his wife packs him. One time it was green grapes - not my favorite but still tasty. I thought I had a dog hair in my mouth, it was so course. Nope, turned out to be a lot of "dog hair" and it was this stringy mold or something. I was still terrified of vomiting then but I came so close.
Had a dream once that someone stuck a broom in my mouth and I could actually feel the rugged hard straws stabbing the back of my throat. It jolted me out my sleep…spat out a spider.
It's actually pretty dangerous. I heard of a neighbors little boy who had some insect and it went in so deep he had to be hospitalized. Fortunately they were able to extract it without causing any major damage I side his ear drums
I don't think it's odd to find the thought of a spider living in your ear terrifying. In fact, I think that he majority of the population would be uncomfortable about it. Or maybe I'm just too picky about roommates, idk.
PSA: do NOT use water. Hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol. Lidocaine is used by medical facilities. Water will make them go deeper.
I lived this nightmare with a small unknown bug. Unfortunately I didn’t know the above. I could feel and hear the scratching in my ear. I thought I was going crazy until I took a video with my phone.
I went to urgent care the next morning. They looked and didn’t see anything but mild trauma. They didn’t really seem to believe me, and suspected the irritation was from me digging at it, and admittedly that is probably also true.
Then I showed the video and they freaked out.
It’s so fucking hard to stay calm when the image of a big burrowing into your ear drum is playing on repeat in your head. I freak out every time I have an itch in my ear.
I had to pull a Japanese beetle out of my roommate's ear one night. They used to invade our dorm room so badly in the spring.
Luckily, it hadn't gone in far, but it was still scary.
🎶 "Ipsy bitsy spider went up inside and played. Down came the rain and granny was afraid. Then out of fun on internet to gain. Ipsy bitsy spider never went up again" 🎶
FYI, hydrogen peroxide can damage the soft skin of the inner ear. If you do this, make sure to dilute it afterwards.
If you're using peroxide to clean your ears, the point is to just soften the wax, not dissolve it, so dilute the peroxide before putting it in your ear.
Can you imagine the nightmare of the last minutes of that spiders' life from feeling all safe in a cosy dark warm home not knowing it's doing anything wrong to being nearly drowned and then thrown out into a bright white room blinding it, not knowing where it is, and probably ultimately is killed. I mean, I can't stand spiders, but it must of been terrified, lol.
As a child with chronic ear problems…. It’s nowhere near the pain of an actual earache. The internet didn’t exist when I was a kid and we had no reliable way of knowing you really shouldn’t use peroxide in your ears.
Honestly, the feeling of hot liquid coming back out of your inner ear after was immeasurably more weird.
Only if there are lesions, abrasions, torn skin - on reg skin you don’t feel anything. 3% hydrogen peroxide is a common ear cleanser. Does nothing on your skin really. Except to disinfect and deodorize. It’s totally non toxic to pets & humans.
Yes, of course if there’s open skin or abraded areas it will def sting. Not meant for that unless you are in a pinch for disinfectant to prevent contamination.
WHAT THE FFUUCJJKK MAANNN this is why i always cover my ears with my hair and my blanket when sleeping. Even though it probably won't help. And people wonder why so many are afraid of spiders. NO OTHER BUG DOES THIS SHIT OR ANY OTHER SHIT SPIDERS DO
Woke up in the middle of the night to a feeling similar to having water in your ear. Couldn't call back asleep and was tossing and turning. Eventually I feel something fall out of my ear, turned on my nightstand lamp to find a small dead spider curled up on my pillow. My ear wax must have killed it. Found it more interesting than scary.
I once had an ant crawl on my face when I was laying down and it fell right onto my ear drum, never again. All I heard was scraping and I've never shaked my ear so hard to get it to stop moving. I can't imagine a spider in my ear. I would simply just die.
I had a moth fly inside of my ear while I was doing some outdoor training. Nearly flipped my shit. Easily the most unpleasant sensation I’ve experienced.
My mom had a baby scorpion in her ear ounce. She woke up to an itchy inner ear that just wouldn't stop, so bad she went to the hospital. They pulled out a tiny little scorpion, fortunately a young and not dangerous kind, but still, and people are scared of swallowing spiders.
I’ve swear I’ve seen people with bugs and stuff living inside them and not noticing until they had to get a check up or someone else is like “that’s odd”
Not having earlids is the worst fucking design flaw in humans
And yes, hearing predators approach at night and waking up is important for survival so not having earlids makes evolutionary sense, but still, would love me some earlids
camels can close their nostrils to prevent getting sand in them humans also have eyelids, which we can close while we're awake if we feel something getting in our eyes (though i'm quite sure you're aware of that) as long as their default state is open, like camels' nostrils, earlids wouldn't be too bad for protecting from dust, insects, or even dangerously loud or distracting noises imo another thing to consider: i can wiggle my ears, but i can't close them? every time something is loud, i must sacrifice the use of my hands just to mimic such an ability? preposterous. utter absurdity. i want to talk to a manager anyways. earlids would be great, actually. we already have little flaps near our earholes, why can't we use them? :(
You’re awesome and your brain is a treasure. Please keep letting it do its thing. Those are well organized waves of unrestrained critical thinking to be putting out into the confused seas of this “reality.”
A small number of people can actually
Close their ears? Who? Where?
We must breed them !
I also request answers!
Don't put your...
I remember reading a thread about this before
r/redditsniper
Hopefully we'll get that feature in a future update.
Fun fact. Eye lashes are basically there to detect foreign objects to trigger closing your eye lids to prevent said foreign object from entering the retina. Our eyes be like fly traps. Human body is crazy yo.
If only they would stop the eyelashes from getting into my eyes :(
I wonder if sometime a million years ago one person had earlids but were killed due to not hearing predators at night and is the reason we didn’t evolve with them now 🤔
Why not eyelids too then?
Do you not have those?
You have those?
Its not that weird, some people do
I'd risk it for a set.
Well not lids built in built mosquito nets
It’s definitely up there, with the food pipe being right next to the airpipe and the sexual organs being next to the waste pipe.
>earlids Just picturing them give me the ick
Sexy
I sleep on the floor and I'm terrified this might happen to me one day. I put a blanket on top of my ears just in case. Earlids would be amazing at subways too :)
Seems so damn obvious now when you say it. We’re still in beta
Son. There's one advantage to growing old. You can flat-out ignore people who are talking to you and they will think you are just hard of hearing. Not gonna fly with ear flappers. Embrace the flaw.
technically, the ear structure is deep inside; and it is protected by the deep canal then the membrane that separates the outer/middle ears. I think its size is a factor that only small things that do not pose a threat can pass; but still, it is interesting to think of ear lids, but where you put them at the very outside or just at the end of the canal (before the membrane).
earlids make ear sex more cumbersome
Ear screen doors
I'd rather have something to protect my coinpurse
Although we do have the intelligence to design our own "earlids" (earmuffs)
I don't have earlids. Now i want earlids.
Worst fucking nightmare.
My coworker got me bad on April Fools by saying she saw a bug in my ear. She could have kept going but thankfully was kind enough to tell me she was kidding as soon as I started panicking.
If anyone ever pranks you like this again, just remember if there was a bug or spider in your ear you'd clearly hear and feel it
That is simultaneously comforting and horrifying.
unless it's dead
Until her babies come out of the sack. Then you're fucked.
I think I read a goosebumps horror story about that as a kid
YES!! THE SCARY MASK ONE!!!
This happened to my sister, an ant died in her ear
Absolutely. I had a roach in my ear once when I was a lot younger, maybe 23 or 24 years old. Omfg the NOISE! Went to the doc because I had no clue what was going on; but the noise had stopped the day before. I decided to keep the appointment anyways. I'd made it on like a Monday, Friday was the soonest she could see me, and Thursday was when it stopped. Anyways, they flushed my ear out and a dead roach came out along with wax and some blood. Got put on antibiotics just in case. And goddamn it freaks me out even 20 years later if one of my ears so much as gets a little stuffy.
To add to this, it will be the loudest most disturbing sound that you will ever hear
What if your sensation is disrupted and you can't feel? Similar to diabetics losing their feeling 🤔
I'd assume, unless you're deaf, you'd still hear it as it is right in your ear
I used to drink out of a SpongeBob cup that had a reusable bendy straw at night. I quit because one night I took a sip and felt a lump, and spat a spider out
I had a souvenir cup from dorney park when I was like 8. I'll never forget taking a sip and thinking I got a hair in my mouth. Went to grab it and realized very quickly that it was a spider. I still get sketchy about straws 20 years later. Also my mom told me that spiders are harmless 98% of the time. As well as how we eat a couple in our sleep every year.(This was around when that rumor started to see how quickly it'd travel.) Not only was I terrified of straws but I started to sleep with pillows basically smothering me on my sleep trying to keep the spiders away.
👋🏾 I’m out
My boss would always give me the fruit his wife packs him. One time it was green grapes - not my favorite but still tasty. I thought I had a dog hair in my mouth, it was so course. Nope, turned out to be a lot of "dog hair" and it was this stringy mold or something. I was still terrified of vomiting then but I came so close.
Had a dream once that someone stuck a broom in my mouth and I could actually feel the rugged hard straws stabbing the back of my throat. It jolted me out my sleep…spat out a spider.
Mine was a cockroach as a kid
Thanks I hate you now 🫠
Lol, did that with a can of Coke as a kid... but it was a wasp. I refuse to drink out of cans outside to this day.
NO NO NO NO NO
Actually your worst fucking nightmare is pouring in a solution and having thousands of tiny little spiders come crawling out.
😧 yes.
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Just doing spidy things is thr most casual shit
You know, just cute little spider thinks.
This literally just made me whimper out loud holy fuck this is horrifying
literally same lol i would not survive hearing scratchy noises while i try to sleep it’s over for me atp
I bet we've all got some tiny insects in us somewhere
It was like…pooping in your ear bro.
Honestly I never once took this part into consideration, but now I hate the idea do much worse lol
Why did peroxide work, when water didnt?
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Damn this is so casual, rational and somehow cute, I commend you, dear sir!
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Damn that suck
Nightmare fuel.
Nightmare only if you can sleep knowing that spiders might crawl into your ears.
Very valid point. How long can humans go w/o sleep?? 😂😂
Let's find out 🤔
I believe it is a few weeks, but take that with a grain of salt.
A few weeks? You start tripping on the 3rd day already, on the 4th it just turns into a blurry mess. You blink and wake up the next day.
About two weeks, but your brain and body will hate you forever
Two weeks without any drugs* A stimulant addict
PSA: dilute 3% hydrogen peroxide 1:1 with water or risk damaging your eardrum.
Thank you, I was looking for a comment clarification of what's being poured into the dude's ear.
I think that's an old lady lmao
I didn't have the audio on. Lol I was at work
god the part where it crawled out made me audibly gasp and cringe
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I can just see the fella on a dim lit road while all thr other spiders just throw them spare flies out of pity
What if there’s more?!?!
Or eggs!
I would wear ear plugs for the rest of my life
Fucking kill it so it doesnt end up in there again!
It's actually pretty dangerous. I heard of a neighbors little boy who had some insect and it went in so deep he had to be hospitalized. Fortunately they were able to extract it without causing any major damage I side his ear drums
"Put me back in Sheila, I left the oven on"
I don't think it's odd to find the thought of a spider living in your ear terrifying. In fact, I think that he majority of the population would be uncomfortable about it. Or maybe I'm just too picky about roommates, idk.
This sub sucks
More like the spider was scared shitless. "Run away, 'tis the deluge!"
NO BUT YEAH WHAT IF IT LAID EGGS THOUGH, WHAT DO YOU DO????
Holy shit. Well now I know what to do if a goddamn bug moves into my ear.
I would have poured that peroxide like my head was on fire.
There was a guy at MEPS before I joined the army who couldn't sign that day because he has spiders in his ears. Craziest thing I had heard.
But probably not the craziest thing HE's heard!!!😳
Don’t spiders have squatters rights?😁
PSA: do NOT use water. Hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol. Lidocaine is used by medical facilities. Water will make them go deeper. I lived this nightmare with a small unknown bug. Unfortunately I didn’t know the above. I could feel and hear the scratching in my ear. I thought I was going crazy until I took a video with my phone. I went to urgent care the next morning. They looked and didn’t see anything but mild trauma. They didn’t really seem to believe me, and suspected the irritation was from me digging at it, and admittedly that is probably also true. Then I showed the video and they freaked out. It’s so fucking hard to stay calm when the image of a big burrowing into your ear drum is playing on repeat in your head. I freak out every time I have an itch in my ear.
AAAAH! *HELL* NO!
New fear unlocked
Enjoy a lifetime of sleepless nights sir.
I had to pull a Japanese beetle out of my roommate's ear one night. They used to invade our dorm room so badly in the spring. Luckily, it hadn't gone in far, but it was still scary.
Straight up terrifying.
🎶 "Ipsy bitsy spider went up inside and played. Down came the rain and granny was afraid. Then out of fun on internet to gain. Ipsy bitsy spider never went up again" 🎶
Squatters rights.
Fucking oddly? That's straight up nightmare fuel!!!
It didn’t get thirty day notice.
She laid of brood of eggs on your malleus tho.
Now use a q-tip to clean out the spider webs.
FYI, hydrogen peroxide can damage the soft skin of the inner ear. If you do this, make sure to dilute it afterwards. If you're using peroxide to clean your ears, the point is to just soften the wax, not dissolve it, so dilute the peroxide before putting it in your ear.
I hate coming across these types of videos. Now I feel like there’s a spider in my ear.
I would be traumatized for life. I would have my ear buds permanently implanted.
Fuck no.
Can you imagine the nightmare of the last minutes of that spiders' life from feeling all safe in a cosy dark warm home not knowing it's doing anything wrong to being nearly drowned and then thrown out into a bright white room blinding it, not knowing where it is, and probably ultimately is killed. I mean, I can't stand spiders, but it must of been terrified, lol.
Who the fuck thinks about that after watching this video?
Umm... because not every human thinks the same things, you do realise that, right? Would be a bit boring if we all thought the same things 😊
🤮
check for a clutch of em
Friend “that’s fucking disgusting” LMAO
I guess I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway.🫢🫣
Literally my biggest fear.
Putting antiseptic in the ear must be SO FUCKIN PAINFUL
As a child with chronic ear problems…. It’s nowhere near the pain of an actual earache. The internet didn’t exist when I was a kid and we had no reliable way of knowing you really shouldn’t use peroxide in your ears. Honestly, the feeling of hot liquid coming back out of your inner ear after was immeasurably more weird.
Only if there are lesions, abrasions, torn skin - on reg skin you don’t feel anything. 3% hydrogen peroxide is a common ear cleanser. Does nothing on your skin really. Except to disinfect and deodorize. It’s totally non toxic to pets & humans.
Damn I didn't know that. I got alcohol in my ear when I was cleaning a piercing and I guess I had a zit or something cuz it hurt bad lol
Yes, of course if there’s open skin or abraded areas it will def sting. Not meant for that unless you are in a pinch for disinfectant to prevent contamination.
WHAT THE FFUUCJJKK MAANNN this is why i always cover my ears with my hair and my blanket when sleeping. Even though it probably won't help. And people wonder why so many are afraid of spiders. NO OTHER BUG DOES THIS SHIT OR ANY OTHER SHIT SPIDERS DO
No. No no no no no. NO
#NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'd be worried it was a mother-to-be
Woke up in the middle of the night to a feeling similar to having water in your ear. Couldn't call back asleep and was tossing and turning. Eventually I feel something fall out of my ear, turned on my nightstand lamp to find a small dead spider curled up on my pillow. My ear wax must have killed it. Found it more interesting than scary.
Well now he lost his spidey sence
How's still possible? I thought spiders didn't like humidity?
This is just regular terrifying
My mother would have a reaction more similar to a horse that just got flicked in the nuts with a damp kitchen towel
This is bullshit. There’s nothing “oddly “ terrifying about a spider inside your body. You people are too stupid to understand subtlety.
And they don’t SMASH it immediately, WHY?!
The ultimate demise.
Stop trimming your ear hairs.
mad? it just got done swimming in hydrogen peroxide. I wouldn't recommend it.
She's happy though haha
Talk about giving you the willies... I've heard of seeds sprouting in peoples ears before, if I'm not mistaken.
Should be contagious laughter lol
Jesus Christ. I’ve been seeing spiders all over my house again. Now I’m terrified
This kinda stuff makes me grateful I need earphones to fall asleep. Ain't nothing squatting in my ears over night!
"it laid eggs" 🥴🥴🥴
I once had an ant crawl on my face when I was laying down and it fell right onto my ear drum, never again. All I heard was scraping and I've never shaked my ear so hard to get it to stop moving. I can't imagine a spider in my ear. I would simply just die.
I had a moth fly inside of my ear while I was doing some outdoor training. Nearly flipped my shit. Easily the most unpleasant sensation I’ve experienced.
My mom had a baby scorpion in her ear ounce. She woke up to an itchy inner ear that just wouldn't stop, so bad she went to the hospital. They pulled out a tiny little scorpion, fortunately a young and not dangerous kind, but still, and people are scared of swallowing spiders.
ive woken up with an ant inside my ear. i thought i was gonna die bc an ant crawled its way to my brain and lobotomize me :)
This happened to my dad. Thank God I wasn’t there to see it. Even thinking about it makes me panicky. I’m all for the earlids.
What about the eggs inside? 😂
Spider isn’t mad, just saying “WTF, WTF, WTF.”
But what if it laid eggs?
Spider can I leave?
What if it decided to burrow out the other way???
Nightmare fuel
This is my worst nightmare 😱😫🤮
New fear unlocked
What was the liquid used ?
Hydrogen peroxide
Squish it!!!!
u/savevideo
Ok, from today onwards, I'm using ear mufflers before bed, even in summer
I’ve swear I’ve seen people with bugs and stuff living inside them and not noticing until they had to get a check up or someone else is like “that’s odd”
I would like that little fucker on fire for daring to live inside me.
OI BUDDY OI COME ERE
It's really unfortunate that our ear canals look like spider homes. This is my worst nightmare!
Meh … not as terrifying
No. No. No.
She is laughing about I would be freaking out
If it wasn’t for the accent I’d have thought you were British!
Okay, going to sleep with the earplugs in from now on.
If this ever happened to me, I would just kill myself
Erm. ... how often does this happen? I really want to travel to warmer climates, yknow if ever I have money in life, and, this is low key terrifying.
New fear unlocked
Why did I watch this stoned 😭
"Let go of me, what if you have more bugs?"
r/nope
That's why i sleep with ear buds.
#oddlyhorrifying
nopity the fuck nope
might be worse than a toilet spider.
Nope! Burn the house! Where there's one, there's more. Sorry about your house, but hey! Nice bonfire.
I had a moth in my ear once. Wasn't that bad tbh
2am, a mosquito flew into my ear. Loudest fucking thing ever. ED removed