Full moon and strange behavior?
With the full moon comming soon, it got me thinking. Why do people seem to act strangely during a full moon?
Since the gravitational effect from the moon controls the tides in the oceans and humans are mostly water (70% or so), is it safe to think that the moon could actually have some effect on us? I know during a full moon I don’t sleep as well as I do when it’s not a full moon.
Just something to think about.
now i really think that is funny but i can’t find an answer to it either it’s just me or ironic how i think the moon makes my heart beat a tenth of a second faster as i tend to stare at it for not even 30 seconds to a minute, i actually find it to take my breath away completely and ask my self has man even landed on it?? Yet! i find it bizzare.
the first time i noticed that happenning without it just being a paranoia happened to be when i was in the phillipines with my girlfriend and her family relaxing one night with her resting her head’ on my chest and everyone looking up at it the first the thing she asked was “are you allright? your heart’s beating so much faster than it just was then” and right then it completely hit me that i was right this whole time, this was true and i completely had no idea, i even told her ‘i thought it was just me’, wat the?? i gotta say.
but i gotta admit i still can’t find an answer to the way i sleep when a full moon is up and going, i just can’t stop tossing and turning so I in some way agree maybe the water in our bodies are taken over by the some how phenomenal rock we call the moon at night while we try and sleep peacefully in our beds at night.
any experts out there with an answer that’ll keep me calm relaxed and satisfied, things are o.k. and that this is all normal? or tell me it’s just a male thing that every man goes through and gets past because even the dreams are funny working up to the whole full moon thing, haha! JKS!!. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anywayz
bizarre, only time i struggle to sleep is when its f**kin hot - maybe when the moon is full, its also reflecting heat down on us. If the moon does effect us because we are made of water i wonder if that means the moon is closer to us on a full moon too.
Heres a stupid thought too - if the moon is close enough to make tides and pull the water upwards - does that mean that it should have the gravitational pull to draw in helium baloons? now thats something i find confusing… :S
This is all new to me, normally I can sleep really well all night. However,last night I was tossing and turning after going to bed at about 11pm I was still awake at 2.00am. I went down for some water and saw the huge full moon, I think (?) I eventually dropped off after 3am, how strange? What does this mean?
I definitely think you guys are on to something… because last night, here, we had a full moon.. had SUCH a hard time getting to sleep and staying that way.
Here is a good one for you. I was just looking at the calendar & found something strange. My youngest son is 7 years old. For the last few years I have been telling everybody that he has a “that time of the month”, just like a woman. The owner of his karate school that he has attended for 3 years completely agrees with me. What I found while looking at the calendar is: On the 11th of this month he got into major trouble at karate after school & has not been allowed to take class since then (there was a full moon on the 9th). Last month the full moon was on the 11th, on the 10th he actually got suspended from karate for a whole week (could not even step foot in the dojo). Seems to me there may be some truth in what I have always heard about a full moon effecting peoples behavior. It may depend on the person, because I cannot say for sure if it effects mine, but who knows.
science has done reserch to ASURE us that the full moon does not effect us at all. Think about it. The full moon is allways there. we just cant see it because of the shadow of the earth. just because some one cant see YOU because some one is standing in front of you or partialy in front of you doesnt mean you are not there. May be a person has problems a certain time of the month might be, because of a bodies monthly cycle. just like a womans period.
A bit dated, but eh– It’s a full moon, and I cant sleep.
Anyhow–
As to the previous poster, the predominant incidences of “Full moon paranoia” (actually, the root phenomenon associated with the word “Lunacy”) happens at night on the full moon. This would place the sun at approximately the other side of the earth, from the moon.
If you look at Newton’s law of gravitation, you would see that this phenomenon would cause a decided shift in gravitational influences, as a result of the centers of gravitation from the sun and the moon being on (roughly) opposing sides of the earth. Tidal phenomena on a full moon should therefor be of greater intensity.
Tangentally— There are several species of marine sponge, coral, and plankton that reproduce ONLY on full moons. How do they know? Beats me. But if it can effect simple single celled plantons and coral polyps– surely it can effect higher level organisms like people.
I want to say that I am a bit skeptic about the skeptics themselves! I mean, even after scientific studies are pointed at, as a proof of no relation between full moon and behaviour, there is a possibility that the right approach has not been taken while initiating these studies/surveys.
I didn’t believe in this either, but when I did start observing, there seems to be a correlation. We can’t just rebuff such ideas without getting a deeper insight - after all, we may one day find scientific evidence. It is possible that even the word ‘lunatic’ was derived due to some real reason. The number of traffic accidents should be measured on near-full moon days (2 days before and after) and on other ordinary days.
let’s just not already be skeptic. a lot of things rejected initially by believe-only-in-science guys later come to be proven by science itself.
im glad i found this site, as over the last few days, it has been a full moon.I do tend to generally feel extra sensitive emotionally around the full moon, but last night i couldn’t sleep, i was still awake at 3am. This has happened to me each time theres a full moon, it was only that i noticed the full moon last night that it dawned on me yet again, of the moons influence. Around the full moon, I sometimes feel as if im going mad as everything in my life feels so much more magnified. Im so glad there’s others who notice the moons effects.
yes the last 3 days me my wife have had a very hard time sleeping,i have always had sleeping problems during full moon.just keep toosing and turning.
I came on this website looking for answers as to why I cannot sleep when there is a full moon. I can even take sleep aides and still not be able to go to sleep. Several members of my immediate family are the same way. My friends and people I work with think its the most silliest thing they have ever heard of. I’m running a marathon in 3 days and have not slept for the last 2 nights due to a full moon. Scared its really going to affect my performance. I wish someone would do a study on this. In dire need of some answers or am I just crazy….
Ime glad i found this site because i was getting a bit freaked out by the things that happen when there is a full moon, I have really vivid dreams and a change in my sleep pattern, i agree with the comment saying they feel there life is more magnified.
I have no doubt that it has an affect on humans, this subject definetly needs more attention.
I googles ‘full moon sleep problems’ and found this site. I have found that my toddler has cyclical sleep problems and I am wondering if the moon is the cause. Last night was the lunar eclipse and she was horrendous, for a month (?!) she has been sleeping beautifully and then suddenlt refusing to sleep, wakingup etc etc. I spoke to a couple of other parents, all had problems with their toddlers last night.
I know the moon is always there, we just can’t always see it, so therefore it should have no effect if full. but it effects the tides when full so obviously there IS a change. It must to do with the gravitational pull, if there was a lunar eclipse presumably the whole positioning of the earth/moon/sun is such that this effect is magnified? Are tides worse during lunar eclipses?
All very interesting…. when it comes to scientists I have to say I am sceptical, for every ‘expert’with a ‘proven’ theory there are many more who ‘proove’ it’s not so.
Here it is after 2:30am and have been tossing in teh bed over an hour. Must be that full moon again and I can’t sleep. Seems only the harvest moon or a full day of mind &/or body exertion are the only thing that don’t cause this miserable situation. Sure know many who tell me they have the same problem. So this time I thought I’d research this on the web–just knew I’d have to find something. One always can. Thank God for computers! Beats tossing. Yawn! Well I’m going to try to go count sheep. Wish me luck!
Just passing through and thought I’d share a couple cheese-like fun facts
Anyone ever hear of “lunacy?” Once upon a time in Europe, that was a free ticket to commit crime so long as it was a full moon.
Another — humans have a magnetic field too, one billionth the intensity of the Earth’s.
Anyways, I actually looked into this last year — There’s a clot of conjecture and folklore, but I found one study that followed the occurrence of crime over a 20 year period (in the US), and it showed a clear spike of violent behaviour when the moon was fully visible.
Aside from that though, I mean — we can’t forget about werewolves, hahaha!
The moon’s pull has a negligent amount of effect on the human body. In fact, it is so small it is immeasurable. Even the great Lake Michigan, as large of a body of water as it is, only has 1.5 to 3 INCH tidal changes. The moon’s gravitational pull is 9 million times weaker than the Earth’s, measured at the surface of the earth. So in other words, when you take off in your car from a stoplight, you are exerting billions of times more force on your body than the moon’s pull.
I dont know about the science part of the moon thing but I have been saying for many years that there is always a weird feeling I get just before a full moon, I dont even have to know the date it is due. Last full moon was the eclipse aswell and there were mighty strange happenings all around that night. When I looked in the lacal paper a week or so later, all the burglaries and accidents and trouble that they reported all happened on the week of the full moon.
I always find that stuff changes at that tine for me, things that were going wrong seem to just magically overnight get better…. and such like. Hey ho!
Am 54 years old. All my life I have noticed that whenever I felt extremely restless at night and couldn’t sleep. Sure enough, I would leave the bed and walk to the family room and the room would be bright as ever from a full moon. I have never paid attention to when a full moon was to take place. Just always have know because of this as my wife calls it, I’m being “wiggy”.
The rest of the story goes like this. about 15 years ago, before sleep studies were a common thing as they are today. I had one done at Rush Pres in Chicago. At the time they were the premier sleep study clinic in the midwest.
I was wired up and put into a room with no windows. Well I was wiggy that night. I hardly slept at all.
Sure enough I walked out of the hospital the next morning and looked at a newspaper and there was a full moon that night. Went back to review my study a few weeks later. I was speaking with the head of the facility. The foremost doctor on the subject in the midwest. I asked roughly the same question as the first persons comment. “Since the gravitational effect from the moon controls the tides in the oceans and humans are mostly water (70% or so), is it safe to think that the moon could actually have some effect on us? I know during a full moon I don’t sleep as well as I do when it’s not a full moon.”
The mental wards fill up, farmers wait till after the full moon to pick their tomatoes. etc. Her comment was , yes we know all this does happen. But I can’t tell you why, because there isn’t a self respecting doctor that will do a study for fear of being labeled a kook!
yes i agree for the past couple od days i been restless to and it is a full moon and even when is is cloudy i can feel the effects of the moon
It’s so nice to read all these experiences! I always sleep so bad when the moon is full! Tossing & Turning, weird dreams, heart beats faster….. I hope there will be some research about this in the future!
It’s amazing how much effect it has on a human being!
OK ~ I’m not usually one to believe in this stuff, but over the last 10 years & watching the signs of things that happen when it’s a full moon…I’m not as skeptical as I used to be.
I have a son who has been in trouble several times & each time it’s been a full moon or close.
I’ve noticed men “pms” during this period as well.
I haven’t noticed the above mentioned sleep disorders but I will definitely start keeping track now.
My eldest daughter is even starting to notice the changes in people around this time of the month.
Definitely worth researching further.
~Kat~
The moon doesn’t really affect me but I find it intersting all the simptons people get from it. I do believe that the moon does have an impact on us. We are about 90% of water, so I could see how it can affect us. The moon affects the waves and thats water, so I think that it affects us too. It turns the waves and the moon turns our moods when a full moon is near. It all connects.
I’m here because i googled “full moon sleep” at 00:24 am… i can’t sleep and right now i am staring at the full moon.
Yawn.. Went bed about 12:00am as i was well tried. Was still shifting about in bed at 4:00am. And when i turned over to see if it was just me i noticed the full moon through my curtains. I either stuffer a sleep disorder when its a full moon or it has some affect on my water balance inside. Maybe its natures way of saying its still light get out there and hunt as in the dark woods its better light than at any other time so could it have to do with my primative instincs
I’ve always known when the full moon was nigh. All day things have been weird. Issues with a major purchase that shouldn’t have happened, the boss acting weird, my husband getting rear ended, grouchy attitudes….. Sure enough, I looked at the calendar and the moon will be full tomorrow. I used to work retail and it was even more obvious when working with the public.
I’ve never noticed it affecting my sleep. I’m curious so will likely keep track of sleep patterns now.
I dont have an answer but I noticed the pattern a few years back. Last night was horrible I didn’t think I would ever fall asleep,and I thought this is it I’m giving in and having that nervous break down. Ahhh but I didn’t. My mom is an RN and she said the crazies come out on a full moon. That the ER is always fuller. She also said that women have their babies during the phase of full moon. She been a nurse for over 25 years. I’m glad I’m not the only one! Thanks guys!
hi…
Cant sleep. I tryed to go to bed around 12.
Now, It’s just about 5 in the morning. I sit here in my home in denmark (europe) and finding, that i beginning to calm down, as the sun is beginning to rise.
I must say it’s remarkable how my mood, and my sleeping is being effected by the full moon. Rapid heart beating, restlessness, and hunger. I tend to eat alot.
I can see, that i’m not the only one with this particular problem, so it’s safe to say, that i’m not just being silly. Non of us are.
So from me to you.
Sleep tight. When time comes…
I have for the last few nights and including the night of the full moon, been waking up at approximately the same time every morning (Australian EST). Variations from 4am to 4:08am, always around this same time. I go to bed around midnight, and wake up, it is so hard to get back to sleep afterward, if there is any information out there please let me know, I would love to know more that this is not just something psychosomatic.
~k
Like everyone else, I was glad to come across this discussion and find that this is really true that none of us are alone in our sleepless nights. I had never thought of it, but recently a friend of mine told me that he can’t sleep during full moon week. My husband has constantly told me that I have “weird” sleeping habits. After my friend mentioned this to me, I realized that my husband took his sleeping aid twice that week - and he rarely uses it. I still have not told him about my “theory” because am afraid he will continue to think that he can’t sleep if the moon is up. But I plan to start tracking my own sleeping and see if those are the days I wake up in the middle of the night and stay awake. Some days I am literally still awake when he gets up for work. And it is not only that one friend who has troubles sleeping, I have several - and it always seems that during conversation, one of us will say “I didn’t sleep last night” and the other says “me too”. Maybe I should start having full moon parties at 2AM and we can keep eachother company?
I too have noticed problems sleeping, heavier breathing, and faster heart beats these past couple of days. I wouldn’t have even guessed that it was because of a full moon until my singing instructor mentioned it to me. For now on I’ll keep track and see if my symptoms are consistent around the time of full moons.
Yeah, it is currently the night after the full moon, I’m up at 3:30 and don’t feel any signs of getting tired… For me it’s usually like this for the two days before and after the full moon as well. I get more emotional, more tense and have a ton more energy at night. Mostly nervous energy, not anything useful. The only real plus side I see is that I seem to be more creative while I’m being kept awake by the moon.
hi ,
i have also observed influence of full moon on me. i have noticed over a period of time on a full moon night, i feel more charged up for sexual activity. desire to have sex is more. i enjoy more on a full moon.
Always had a problem sleeping during the full moon as well.
Finally googled “full moon sleep” to see if there was some study done, and this was the closest thing i found.
I try to sleep (not because im tired full moon days, i just try because i know i should sleep to get to work rested etc), i toss and turn, i give up and i see the moon shining slightly trough my dark curtains.. i think “not again..”, i try again to fall asleep but cant.
It often takes me until near morning to fall asleep, if i do at all.
My theory is that it might be a genetic remnant from humanity’s natural past, those primal times when some people had to guard the tribe from dangers and wild beasts at night.. those people had to have it in them to do so naturally i guess..
Another thing im interested in is, do you ppl who have trouble sleeping during the full moon also easily fall into a late sleeping pattern if not controlled by alarms for work, family or other external reasons? i know i do, i always stay up until near morning when im not bound by work/alarms/other people.
Even on weekends i change my sleeping pattern a couple of hours.
I have thought for several years that a full moon effects people and there behavior. I have worked in retail for many years and started checking for a full moon when people tend to be more erractic and errational, it always seems to start a few days before the actual full moon and then a couple days after. I really noticed the change the moon has on my boyfriend. Very soon after we started dating I would notice a change in his behavior for about 4-5 days a month, almost like pms, haha, then I started watching for a full moon and for 2 years, it never fails. I use to think a full moon was very beautiful and interesting, now I almost dread it. As for the sleep pattern, I will have to watch this, I did wake up after about 3 hours of sleep and couldn’t fall back asleep for about 3 hours. My boyfriend also tossed and turned all night. Last night was a big full moon!! I find this all very interesting and will watch the sleep patterns for myself and him. Not that there is anything I can do, just be prepared.
Also, the information in this website has been very interesting. I will check back on a regular basis.
my dad thinks were part werewolves because r ancesters came from england and we just have a little in r blood.
but something weird about it if u havnt noticed i think it happens to guys more than girls i think its either water in us or the moon when its full opens up certain flowers that only bloom and realese certain pollens when the moon is at its strongest although im only a kid it this is my theri
I am so glad I found this site. Sleeping is my favorite thing to do. My relatives and friends joke that I can sleep just about any time, any where…BUT NOT ON THE FULL OF THE MOON. Last night I watched the 11 O’clock news and was wide awake. I took a hot shower, had clean sheets, etc., etc., but just laid there. Got up a few times…and around 3:30 a.m. the thought came to me “Maybe it’s the full of the moon.” I looked out the window but it was hazy so I figured I was wrong. When I got to my office I looked at the calendar and, sure enough, Full Moon, July 30!
So what do us folks do who are affected like this? Would a sleeping tablet help?
For years I have seen and experienced the odd effects from a full moon. In my later years, I can sense one without even looking outside or checking the lunar cycle. It’s a presence I feel in the back of my head. Like clockwork, I sense this feeling and look outside, sure enough it’s always staring right back at me.
I don’t care what the scientists or doctors say! There is definitely a natural phenomenon going on that cannot be fully explained. There is just too much evidence for this entire thing to be ruled out as placebo! I really hate the mentality of if it cannot be explained by science, it does not exist. Rubbish! There is more going on around us than we will ever possibly know. The rules we set upon ourselves hinder our insight.
Alright… back to work.
I have always thought that there is something in this. I am sitting at work after having a uneasy, unsettled feeling all week and also the fact that both myself and my colleague have agreed that everyone has been acting very strangely at work the past few days. Mostly arguements, being over sesitive and irrational! All of these things i would say i feel around this time too. Its all just very weird and my sleep has been awful the last few nights, i have the weirdest dreams and even though its not a hot night i get bad night sweats whilst waking every few hours. Very bizarre but when i checked it out lo and behold its a full moon tonight!!!! spooky possums!!
Ok, tonight is a full moon, and I cannot sleep at all!! When I was little, my mom knew when there was a full moon because I could never sleep on those nights.
I can remember having trouble sleeping during a full moon as a child right up to my present age 47. I remember going to the beach to catch tiny fish that lay eggs during high tides and being wide awake during and after catching the fish. I have talked about sleepless nights during a full moon to doctors and people I know and no one has an answer to my questions. Why hasn’t there been studies on the moons effect on the body? Maybe because it happens to women more then men? Doctors will research a mans’ problems and illnesses while putting a woman’s problems or illness on the back burner. One thing that helps is a cool bedroom, and a glass of warm milk. Think about it, you give warm milk to babies to avoid upset stomaches and to help them sleep perhaps it’s that simple. I just finished a glass of milk. It is 5:16 A.M. I have been up all night any answers out there? 08-29-07
I love my long term boyfriend of 18 years, but I know for a fact when we are coming up to the full moon he is awful. He is picky, nasty, spiteful, agressive, and if I weren’t very careful, he could become very violent, I get this dillemer every month. My two girls and I are really depressed about this on-going situation. I really dont feel like i know my boyfriend at this time of the month, but it happens continusly and i hate it. “HELP”…
I’ve been diagnosed with Anxiety & Mild OCD. I often get upset at night, and get into heavy arguments with my family. Usually, these arguments slow to a stop after a few minutes of yelling.
Last night’s wasn’t one of them. Last night’s lasted several hours and resulted in nothing but trouble, and a cracked doorframe..
It seems that my family, myself included, can get extremely angry and lose touch with reality. We have normal small arguments here and there, but on the days leading to the full moon, and days where there is a full moon, everything is magnified, and we become completely irrational and sometimes even out of control.
I don’t quite understand why this happens, and I’ve been researching it to find out. According to some websites I’ve been to, they say that the full moon does affect human behavior. Perhaps that’s where they got all those “Werewolf” tales from. From people going loony and doing ridiculiously violent things.
I’m so glad I came across this site!! I’ve been tossing and turning all night unable to sleep. Around 2am I went to the kitchen for some sleepy tea and noticed the full moon and wondered if it might have anything to do with it. Sure enough I googled the question and came across this site!
I just happened to stumble across this website and I can relate to most of you. My mother told me that when I was about a year old they noticed my strange behavior during the full moon. I would cry uncontrollably and nothing would be able to comfort me. The moon still affects me to this day… I’m 24 years old and every full moon I get irritable, anxious, and i still cry.. I usually don’t pay attention to the moon phases but when I’m having and “episode” I can bet my life that there is a full moon that day. Earlier today I got so upset for really no reason at all. I cried for quite sometime then i went out for a cigarette and I said to myself “I bet it’s a full moon tonight, and that’s why I’m acting so strange” sure enough tonight is a full moon.. I totally believe that the moon affects people.. some more than others.. I’m not sure it affects my sleep pattern because I have strange sleep patterns anyways. It was nice to be able to read other experiences.. Yay i’m not the only one that acts weird on a full moon.
crazy stuff. the past few nights have been full moon and i dont even have to look out the window to know for sure. I will not go to sleep and i try and i close my eyes i count sheep i do all that stuff….even at the moment i naturally have problems sleeping so i do have sleeping tablets but the full moon seems to reverse the effect on anything. Eventually ill drift of to sleep but you can feel it in your body that restlessness and knowing. and i think to myself gee i wonder if its a full moon and look out the window and there she is shining back at me …like saying smart assly hah you cant sleep. so i shake my fist at her and try to sleep without ANY success… There should definately be some studies on this because i can still remember being at high school and not getting any sleep the previous night because of a full moon…. and i would say to my friends full moon couldnt sleep got highly annoyed and i think they thought i was crazy…and i thought i was crazy haha but now i know that its pretty normal…i dont know who gets it more but all i know is that when its a full moon i cant sleep:(
Theres no way this full moon theory is not true. Everyhting in my life just seems unfixable on a full moon and I get the same uncontrolable crying. A full moon has just past and the other day I felt like I was depressed, just cryed all day which is not like me. I nag my boyfriend more for the things that normally I wouldnt care about my patience with people goes, im insecure and anxious, I just tend to act like a complete psycho to be honest. And the sleep thing happens too, I wake up three four times during the night. And Iv began to watch people around me and its deffinitly not just me!
I believe 100% that the full moon affects behavior. A few days ago a co-worker started screaming at me in front of a classroom full of students. I was telling one of my students about it, and he said his relative who works in Human Resources told him that people always behave badly at work when it’s a full moon. I told my sister about this. She’s a nurse, and she said it’s true because all the emergency rooms are full of craziness on a full moon (accidents and nutty behavior).
some ppl say that a full moon is a time of high emotion, and that ppl are often times more “expressive”
Personally I just cant sleep!
Well. I stumbled upon this site after some frustrated searching, but I wasn’t going to post. Well, then I noticed that it’s still, essentially, active after all this time. So I figured: what the hell. So here goes for another half-dozen anecdotal cases in my own personal life I’ve come to notice:
- A full moon almost always causes me to have a fairly wide range of mild emotional responses. By that I mean that I have an emotional response to almost every interaction, albeit it’s a mild one; usually, I’m pretty impervious to things like social cues unless they hit me in the face - in which case it’s a pretty big response. In this state I find it almost impossible to get seriously angry about something; saddened, melancholy, or even a bit chaotic, sure, but I don’t respond as I would normally.
- My wife acts like she’s pregnant during a full moon; it scares the piss out of me.
- My son (4) has some pretty severe emotional problems during a full moon. For instance, yesterday through today he simply pissed himself when he felt lonely -3 times yesterday and 4 times today. He doesn’t do this normally - and he likely won’t do it tomorrow much at all, either.
- I do not, and never have slept well (it at all) during full moons. Even when I’m tired, I’ve typically got no desire to sleep during one, and if I try, it’s a restless, torturous sleep full of odd dreams.
Ok comment from up north in Sweden. I have made a experiment for the last year every full moon day i have made notes how i sleep and what was my dream about. I know alot of people saying that it’s just a “period” we go throu, but i period does not happen on the same day every month…ask your girl friend or wife!!
So the results have been every full moon for a year my heart beat increased and i could not sleep. Like drinking 4 cups of coffee before go to bed. Strange dreams, waking up falling back to sleep. The things with kids getting crazy at full moon?? But a funny thing happened yesterday on the full moon, my sisters youngest kid had lost it yesterday like never before and he is 6 years old and he cursed like a sailor!!
Going to go on with my little study!!
Take care Moon people
Stephan
Hey
I really struggle to sleep over a full moon, usually i am fast asleep by 1am at the latest, the past few nights ive been up till at least 3 and basicly having to force myself to goto sleep, im still wide awake as i type this, i havnt really noticed any other changes in behavior, but i have never really paid attention to it that closely.
I did a bit of reading and the only explainable cause for lack of sleep is that the extra light given off by a full moon can reduce the production of the hormones that help us sleep and alters our body clocks. I’m not 100% convinced as my room is still fairly dark, but i dont know changes in light affect my sleep
Could the change in hormones also effect behavior?
Dan Speed
It is so nice to finally find some comment on this subject.
For years I have from sleep problems as the full moon approached, getting worse towards full moon, then less so as full moon passes. The curtains can be open, or closed, it makes no difference at all. I can drink a lot on a particular night and still guarantee to wake up again in the very early hours, its such a strange thing.
No one I know seems to suffer like this, but almost everyone acknowledges the, largely unknown, power of the moon.
I now have a moon phase calculator and the occasional sleeping pill.
It is amazing how little is written about this subject. From my sleep/moon problems I looked at Biorhythms and, hey, how acurate can those be!
Corny, or not, I found the more I trawled through the available information, the more it changed my life and I became Wiccan some years ago.
You may think I am crazy, thats your privilege, but I am interested to hear any comments.
Well, I am only seventeen though turning eighteen in two days! -Cheers- I have never been able to sleep up to seven days before a full moon and at least seven more after. Sleeping in the morning makes sure I don’t lose it.
My mum said when I was a baby I would always move around more the closer it got to the full moon as well. I find that I have a hard time sleeping at night period, during day light I have a hard time eating or staying awake wanting nothing more then to go back in my room with closed black curtains.
I live in Sweden, and there is no night life here, at least not in the smaller town where I am living. It is a tough thing to deal with, a doctor has given me pill’s to force me to sleep since everyone says its unhealthy to sleep during the day. How ever even those pills can not make me sleep on a full moon. Right now it’s six days till the full moon I think.
I don’t care what science has taught us, science was the one to say tomatoes were bad, then the very next morning on the new they were good again. Still again the next morning it was reported they were bad, and then later that afternoon they were once more good. It is also science that says the normal honey bee should not be able to fly because its so big and its wings are to small and do not beat fast enough. Yea, looks like the bee’s didn’t get that memo huh!
A good deal of people will not believe you when you say you can not sleep and nights. The sun even hurts me when I go out in it, but everyone says I over react. I’m sorry but to me the sun feels like millions of needles are being poked into me every where it touches.
Science is worthless, there killing animals just to try and freeze them, clone them, or putting machines in the head to see how they think about things. For al I care science is nothing but people who want an answer for everything and refuse to think there might be other things happening outside there perfect box of a view of the world.
hey, look i’m only eleven and I think that the full moon or for the moon on it’s own for that matter is utterly amazing.
it’s freaky the way it takes over you and your eyes get glued to it. i’ve tried telling friends but they think i am mad and that i am some sort of freak. even a warewolf???
i feel that it’s magic and that somehow it connects to me like i have a powerful relashionship with it and i bet if you read this you wil be thinking oh look some kid thinks she’s magic but i’m not it’s much much more than that.
When i’m upset or low i can go outside or upstairs to my parents bedroom and stare at it 4 ages an somehow i know it’s listening.
here’s a completely different subject but i’ll tell u anyway…. it’s like the moon is in love with my voice when i sing i know it listens and sometimes very rarely i don’t get da ja vu i can actually think of something in my head and it will come true the next day or that minute. i’ll go ahead and say it i think i could be sicic..
please read what i have 2 say and take it in ther’s lots of us out there and i truly believe in it ALL!
i don’t know if this is normal or some sort of phase buut i know it’s REAL!!!!
thnx 4 reading
bye..
I googlesearched this site today because, once again, I find myself, an adult woman, crying uncontrollably and nearly hysterically on the dreaded Full Moon Day.
It took me a long time to realise - I didn’t make the connection, thought it was hormones, a ‘down’ day, etc. I remember once reading back over the diary I kept as a student and noticing that on Full Moons, my entries would be slightly incoherent, full of disjointed images, when normally it wasn’t.
Thinking back, it seems worse in Winter, which I have always but down to the short dark days (I live in Scotland). However, one of the earlier posters said that it’s perhaps not just the presence of the moon (which is always there) but the distance of the sun (which is further away in Winter).
I am ready to accept that now I think there’s a connection, there’s some kind of auto-suggestion going on. Often I don’t *consciously* realise til later, though.
It’d got to the stage I have to do something about it. My poor ex-boyfriend has taken the full impact of my upsets, and I can’t keep on abusing him any more!
It feels almost taboo, so good to share this,
L
I am fifty-three years old. When I was a kid in elementary and high school it seemed that I got into trouble once each month. I always blamed it on a certain shirt or a pair of pants that I wore or something else since I couldn’t figure it out.
Every month exactly seven days before a full moon nothing goes right. Some people say that I set my self up for disaster by believing that it will happen but I don’t care what they say because nobody knows myself better than I do. I have hidden all calanders and paid no attention to the moon cycle. Then one morning when I wake up it feels like there is a ton of bricks on my shoulders. It feels like there is twice the amount of gravity pulling me down. I can’t think clearly and I drop everything that I pick up. Not one single thing goes right. Everything stresses me out and I notice that people are acting like nuts and driving like idiots. I am a former law enforcement officer so I really noticed this especially on the third shift.
Then about two or three days after the full moon it goes away. I can tell you the day it leaves my body because of the way I feel. I talked to a psychologist that I met and he told me that he tracked the way his patients felt in relationship to the moon cyle .
Some of my friends and co-workers have told me that it is silly. After a while they start watching the moon and noticing how they feel and before long they confess that the moon has the same effect on them. I have noticed that their bad luck and bad feelings happen at a different time of the moon cycle than mine.
My doctor has commented to how sensitive I am to medications. I am also extremely sensitive to magnetic therpay such as magnetic insoles that you wear in your shoes and bracelets and necklaces. Don’t underestimate the magnetic pull from the moon and the fact that astronauts are treated for symptoms of magnetic energy that they receive from the moon.
I don’t plan any important things to do nor do I make any important decisions during this time if I can avoid it.
I would love to hear from anyone who belives or has experinced symptoms like mine.
I just have to make another comment because I made my first comment before reading all of the past comments that were made before mine. Besides the full moon is killing me.
It is very therapeutical knowing other have experinced the same problems that I have for years. One thing that I just read in your past comments concerned how some of the women seemed to think that their children, boyfriends and husbands were experencing PMS symptoms.
Gosh ! That is how it has been with me and my wife for the last twenty years. It is a miracle that she stayed with me. I go from Doctor Jeky to Mr. Hyde exactly seven days before the full moon.
To some people this is funny but after reading your momments I can tell that it has really put a lot of stress on your health as well as your relationships and marriages.
My wife told me that women secrete hormones from their armpits and that is why women who work together get on the same cyle. I have always felt that if you are married to a women you should be considerate and mature enough to learn how their bodies function so that you can understand how it would affect a man.
The other morning I woke up with my face buried in my wifes armpit. Go ahead and laugh, I have a sense of humor. I still belive that the full moon affects our emotions .
I realize that I can’t solve your problems but if there is anyone who would like to talk to me about their full moon experinces don’t hesitat to send me an e-mail. I think that if there was a support group or just someone to listen it would be very benefical and you never know where it migjht lead to.
Me again!!!
I was feleing great on Christmas Eve because of the full moon and other subject’s I have accapted that I have some sort of relationship with the moon some sort of power but it’s also great 2 know that there are otheres out there the same as me..
I’m a kid weird faith power strong agin power. That’s what I feel like I love the moon what am I saying it’s not a moon or an it it’s way more than anything come on here I need some answers thnx lol …..
i too have experienced the lack of sleep it began sometime around my tenth birthday and is still a regular occurance (i’m 19 now) it has been a full moon for the past 3 mights an only alcohol seemed too knock me out last night i have tried sleeping tablets in the past but with no affect my father is also affected by it, he gets really moody and quite angered whilst i get a sense of constant tiredness with aching muscles and a depressive outlook towards the start and end of the cycle but in the middle i have a burst of happiness.
I too suffer from full moon insomnia. Right now its 5.30am and I haven’t slept a wink and yes there is a big shiny moon ouside my window. I haven’t slept well all week. The previous two nights I took pills but they didn’t work tonight, in fact they seem to make it worse. This doesn’t happen every full moon but definitely the majority of them. I have occasional insomnia and I am now going to keep a sleep diary to see if there is a pattern as I have only registered the actual full moon and not the build up.
I have recently finished a nutrition course and our lecturer completely believed in the effect of the moon. She says it is to do with our mineral & water balance. Some minerals are charged and they are called electrolytes and these help to govern sleep and wakefullness. They control our circadian rhythm.
I agree that it may also be connected to ancient hunting practices and that we would have been more watchful and alert on a full moon. This would have occurred for thousands of years and become part of our genetics. We still carry the genetics of our ancestors. Just a thought. I now don’t know whether to bother with sleep as my baby son will have me up in a couple of hours. He, of course, has slept like a log.
It’s 6:10 pm, ive been up for 2 days now. i will most likely be up another day or two if this is the standard ‘lunacy cycle’. i am manic depressive/bipolar. for any scientist that doubts lunacy…feel free to contact me if you are intersted in studying someone who is affected physically and mentally during the rise and fall of the moon. i can at least assure you that it is not a waste of time.
no werewolf or vampire or tweeker am i. just a simple man who cannot escape the cycle of the moon. luna….she is my bane. as long as i cant see her eye to i we are fine. but, ohh luna, when you unveil your face in its full beauty…then and only then does your mesmerising spell turn me into a dote void of free will. for it is my will to sleep and am found being proven to your testament of true and awesome power. luna shields us from much ,more than you know. kindred spirits.
not only have i suffered for years with full moon insomnia, but my restless leg syndrome is so much worse during the full moon too. my oldest sister has the same issues with the full moon, and i have noticed that my poor three year old daughter has very fitfull nights during a full moon. doctors can call me crazy and scientists can say i’m wrong, but i know what i feel and i know it’s all about the full moon. glad i found this site, it eases my mind a little to know it’s not just my family. hope everyone sleeps well tonight, but i wont hold my breath….LOL!
i think its obvious people act strange when its full moon. I have been affected by the moon for as long as i can remember. 20 is when i bought my first lunor callender so i would know when it was coming. for appx 1 week befor my sleep pattern changes and i get less and less sleep as the days go by, and when its full moon i try to either have a big party, go camping, any thing that doesent involve sleep. it can be a good thing. i seem to have to much energy around this time but the good thing is i can sleep like a baby 2 days after
Hey,
I am coping really badly with all this you know furing the new moon time. I absoluctly hate it!!!
I don’t know about you guys but I am so glad that I have found this site it really has helped me.
I seem to be the opposite of you guys because the full moon makes me sleep like a baby.
I can’t wait until I just see the moon and you peeps are right I seem to be FULL of energy with the FULL moon. bye xx
I know the full moon affects my foster daughter that is special needs, she becomes very moody and unpredicable. She can be down right miserable and doesn’t seem to know why. I keep a behavior record so I know this is a fact. I also seem to be affected as I wake up during the night which is not a normal thing for me. A friend told me her Father was so mean during a full moon everyone had to stay away from him for several days. I wish someone would do a better study on the subject.
It is now 1:13am and I am up yet again. All week I can’t sleep and there was a lunar eclipse last night. Every month I have noticed when there is a full moon, I can’t sleep. I don’t even have to look at a calendar, I can totally tell when a full moon is coming. Besides not even only being able to sleep, I work with patients and when a full moon is coming, for about a day or two people are just off their rocker. I know it effects my mood sometimes too & this week especially, I felt like I was PMSíng all over agin. I thought I was crazy until I stumbled upon this website this morning. Im glad I’m not the only LUNAR-TIC!
Full moon last night and I couldn’t sleep. I was actually out of town Tuesday night couldn’t sleep.. home and sleep Wed and then last night.. the full moon I was up again. My kids woke up as well and mumbled all night. I think next time there is a full moon I am going to stay up all night and get some work done. If you can’t beat it.. you may as well join it.
so glad i found this site……… 6.40am and been awake since midnight. There is no doubt about it i sleep terribly when there is a full moon, my family do as well! The awful thing about it?……. i guess there’s no cure!
I have had RLS since moving to a high altitude town 10 years ago. Prior to that - no RLS. So, does altitude have anything to do with RLS and insomnia? Also have noticed that I feel “allergic” to the full moon - in the sense that I am drawn to it and have to make myself not get pulled in. Also notice that a few days before and during a full moon RLS is worse. Also worse during season changes and about a week before my period. I SO wonder what all of these events have in common. Any suggestions?
Look Just 2 get u aware of this well it’s a lunar eclipse on the 7th Marchh 2008 not long but u guys I wonder wat will happen 2 us I dunno if I am scared or wat but I know that I am not normaal I have some sort of power and I am just learning 2 control it
Firstly - hello to all the contributors to this blog.
Secondly like many of you I thought that I was the only one suffering from this phenomena but apparently not. In the days leading up to a full moon I to suffer sleep disturbance but more frighteningly I suffer severe paranoia and think the world is out to get me. When I say severe I mean SEVERE.
It is reassuring to know that there are other normal people out there that are going through what I go through.
The previous entries have gone a long way to explaining things but isn’t it sad that there is no research into this situation (going as far as producing an old Act of Parliament inasmuch as the Lunacy Act which dictated that people like ourselves was classed as mad - sorry I’m English).
I am now 56 years old and this blog has gone a long way to explain that I seem to have wasted (through lack of understanding) a lot of those 56 years. I have always thought that I just suffered mood swings or a Jekyll & Hyde personality but only in recent months have I thought that the moon could be a contributor to those mood swings.
So thank you all - and if you want to share your Moon mood swing thoughts then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Hey em on Friday the 21st of March 2008 well it’s a full moon but it’s aiso an eclipse I dunno if it is a lunar eclipse ar a solar eclipse look I am extremely scared please tell me what is going to happen. I do sometimes see the future bt I’m not that gd plz help me!!
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omg!! this is too strange! I couldn’t sleep and got up, got on the computer(while looking out the window at the huge moon completely mesmerized and still awake at 2 a.m.)Then I googled in ” why can’t I sleep when there is a full moon”clicked on this page and tripped out! My sister-in-law says I’m a witch. And I was thinking back to my childhood days and remembered my mother saying ” I didn’t sleep last night it was my witching night” Is all of this true? Am I a witch? Was my mom? Do witches not sleep when there is a full moon? All of this is so confusing to me. But I never sleep and have the need to do stupid off the wall crap when there is a full moon. Do they make drs. for this??
Wow, this is really interresting. Last night was a full moon and I tried to go to bed at 10pm. I couldn’t get to sleep until 2 or 3 and even then I kept waking up. My heart rate also seem to be going really fast like I was on caffine or something. I kept trying to remember if I drank or ate anthing that would make me so restles. No, couldn’t think of anything. I had to wake up really early, at 5 am to take my roomate to the airport. She said she never even went to sleep! She said she just didn’t feel tired and had a lot of things to do anyway. She said maybe it was the full moom which made me google and find this. I’ve had hard times falling asleep before but I don’t think it’s ever been that bad. I will def pay attention to see if it’s the moon giving me troubles about falling asleep.
Well I have noticed that I cannot sleep when there is a full moon. I wont even know the moon is full until I look out the window. I have been experiencing this since I can remember - scientific fact or not it affects me!
im nuts 5 days before a full moon –it feels like someone put gas under my skin and lit it on fire
During a full moon, I sleep troubled, but I eventually go to sleep. But the worst part is, that 2 years ago I had a dream about my parents getting divorced and it came true, (im only 13) and that day I remember was a full moon. Now there is a full moon in a few days and I will have another dream that will come true. Ive learned that this is something called Lunar Dreaming, O.B.E., and many other things, but it says that I have dreams that come true only on full moons… and this can be quite disturbing considering im still only a child. Has this ever happened to anybody else here?
any one sleep last night?
i didn’t =[
it drives me crazy
I didnt sleep either… i tossed and turned and then finally got just two hours of sleep before i was supposed to wake up… and i have started wondering about this “not sleeping thing while full moon” awile ago when i first noticed it… my 2 roomates didnt sleep either.. and not just last night.. but all the times there was a full moon in the past.. i am glad its not only me who is the crazy here… or at least thought i was..
I slept last night, but usually on full moons I don’t sleep for ages and ages.. not until my body just decides it can’t stand being awake anymore. I also get really hyper the week before the full moon and I’m the most hyperactive and insane when it’s the day of. My friends all seriously say I must be a werewolf…if so, cool.
They’re all wary of me just before the full moon, too, like they’re afraid I’m going to go crazy on them or something. It freaks me out, too.
Last night, it was cloudy here, so I couldn’t see the moon as well as I usually can. It was also right before I went to bed and it was on the other side of the house from my room, so no light shone through. I didn’t get much of a chance to drink in the light like I always do…
Then I when I did go to bed I slept almost right away. o.O It’s just weird how seeing the moon would make you act differently.
My son doen’t sleep well at all when there is a full moon and several days before that. He is more hyper during those days and gets in trouble at school. I asked the chiropractor about this and he said that the full moon does affect the body. He also said that parasites hatch during a full moon. Sure enough, my son had parasites and was able to take supplements to get rid of them. Also, I had a dog with epilepsy and he would have seizures the night of a full moon.
I totally believe the full moon effects us. If you think about it, like said before, our bodies are 70% water. Also our brains are suspended in fluid. The gravitational pull must have some sort of effect on our bodies.
It seems a little more than coincidence that I am in a bad mood for three days each month, having no bearing on my menstrual cycle, but when documented, found it landed on the day before thru the day after of the full moon. And intensified at night fall.
Also looked back to investigate a relationship I had, where we broke up once a month. All of these break ups landed on the full moon.
This all seems to be a little more than coincidence to me.
Now being aware of this I am able to mildly control it.
oh and I on the other hand cant help but pass out when it full moon usually i can stay up for days but when its full moon i start to yawn around 9pm and i fall asleep anywhere… how about that?
Ever since I was a child, I remember staring out the window of my bedroom and gazing at the full moon (while I couldn’t sleep). Last night was another struggle with the covers. At about 2:00 pm, I got out of bed and walked outside and had a little chat with Mr. Moon. I asked him to give me a break and let me sleep. Fortunately, he didn’t reply.
Ok so last night it was a full moon here.
I didn’t realise this, but I stayed at my boyfriends house and I was ok until we went to bed. I got in bed and was ok for about 10/15 mins…until about 11.45. I then suddenly felt really weird. For some reason I was petrified. I couldn’t sleep and just generally felt strange. My boyfriend is giving up smoking so was fast asleep but didn’t appreciate me waking him to tell him I was scared! I tried to sleep but something wasn’t right. I kept looking around the room and I was boiling hot. By about 12.30 I had to tell him I was going home. I went downstairs (petrified even more by the dark) and went to my car, as I opened the front door the massive full moon was right in front of me. I looked at it a while.. and he lives right by the sea and I could hear the waves… It totally freaked me out. So I got in my car and drove home as quickly as I could.. but kind of felt in a daze. Once I got home and got in bed I was ok and fell asleep. I took the day off work today as I didn’t feel ‘right’ in myself.
Now I think about it, I did used to get this regularly a year or so ago… it wasn’t a monthly thing and I never checked the moon.. but I wonder if it’s related?
Sorry to bore you, but I had to look on the net for related info! x
Well, for those of us who believe in the Bible, maybe here is an answer (I also struggle with this full moon, but will try this one):
Psalm 121:5-6 The LORD is thy KEEPER: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the MOON by NIGHT.
You know, God SAID “let there be light”, and Jesus fought satan with quoting scriptures Matt 4 - maybe THAT’S our answer to good sleep!
Natalie, I had a similar problem last night. I went to bed and started to feel quite stressed and anxious.
My boyfriend said that my body felt boiling hot. The room wasn’t particularly warm, but I kept feeling really hot and sweaty. I tossed and turned all night and bearly got any sleep.
Over the last few months I have started to notice that I suffer some sort of insomnia around the full moon, and I don’t know it’s a full moon until afterwards.
Now I’m going to start to try and pay attention to when the full moon is due so that I can take some sleeping pills or something!
there was a full moon last night (may 20th)..
i didnt know beforehand but i knew that for the past 2 nights ive had the worst sleep ever.. laying in bed hours until the early morning (usually 3am)…
i am NOT a skeptic. my sleep is 100% disrupted around and during a full moon. no other time in the year is it like this. people need to get over the folklore and really look deep into the science behind it..
sometimes my moms workplace will come in saying ‘man i slept so bad last night’.. we’re not all dillusional. perhaps some of us are just more ‘in tune’ with things than others?
heres another thought…
Maybe its something simple - such as because people know its a full moon they expect to find it hard to sleep. I struggled the other night…. but it was not a full moon.
On the other hand, some of us know that sleeping during the day can be really hard. Maybe the reason we struggle to sleep on a full moon is because a full moon reflects more light from our beloved sun and “thats” whats keeping us awake? Especially if you dont have curtains and its blaring right through your window!