The full moon

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It's the full moon in the UK tonight. I'm a terrible old insomniac generally but the full moon and the couple of days leading up to it are always particularly bad.

I don't track it or follow it - but when I've had some very awful restless and sleep-deprived nights I look it up, and it's always around the time of the full moon.

Why is that?

Anyone else? Or any other things that go awry with the full moon for you?

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@elephantoverthehill

Full moon and windy. Great to be a teacher.

I was going to say the same - Full moon and wind = fatal combination!

@SpiderVersed

The statistical analyses never find a correlation.

When I was a kid our next door neighbour was the supervisor of PhD Psychiatry students trying to prove wards etc were busier around the full moon. They all failed to find any evidence. He used to lecture on confirmation bias and placebo effect.

But last night's full moon was very beautiful .

Confirmation bias works both ways

There is plenty in medicine and science now proven that used to be considered bunkum. Use of leeches and maggots are 2 that come to mind.
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Science doesn't, understandably, believe in astrology. I tend to agree - except I know many people who, for whatever reason, have strong correlation with their star signs etc. But - it can't.

Whilst not believing in astrology I can totally see why the moon should affect us (as pp have said, water and tides) AND their is a reason mental illness used to be known as lunacy. There is no reason why certain behaviours were linked with the moon unless these links were observed.

I wasn't aware of any connection until my work with children in care and I still poo pooed it until it became clear things were strange month after month.

I always have insomnia on the full moon. Also the day before my period. I’ve been up since 1am.

@gamerchick

The way I see it and people may not agree.. is the moon is the can control the sea and humans are mostly made up of water. So why wouldn't it affect us?

That's it though.

I absolutely agree!

I know about the research disproving it but wasn't it just no particular rise in A&E admissions?

I still think people know how their own friends, family, kids etc are in general terms and how their behaviour subtlety changes. I for one know no I feel different.

As for sleeping less I believe that's something to do with early man being alert for predators etc I'm sure I read once that people can still suffer it in the modern world even though we control our environment with artificial light or blackout curtains.

My Da Vinci as born 24 hours before the true Full Moon and it was chaos in the hospitality that night