Comments on: Does a full moon actually affect people’s behavior? http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:08:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sue Bradbury http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4773 Sue Bradbury Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:56:05 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4773 I too am sceptical about the things I cannot understand or have not experienced, but I am beginning to think the full moon and effect on moods is too obvious to just brush away. I have experienced many of the above mentioned, less sleep, becoming emotional, moody, quiet, headache's. Some sceptics or scientists would point this to just my character but I am of a normal, happy, outgoing nature. I have recently realised that these 'out of character' experiences only apply when there's a full moon and I don't see it is a full moon until after the event. It is only these past few months that I began connecting the two. One particular day I was in a quiet mood all day, I new it but just couldn't change it, nothing had happened to provoke it. On speaking to friends that night, one male admitted he was in a terrible mood and for no good reason and a girlfriend said she had been a terrible b**** that night and didn't know why, these people are normally easy going and I was surprised to hear this and yes there was a full moon. I know this is not scientific evidence or proof of anything, but we have to wonder at the power of nature, don't we? I too am sceptical about the things I cannot understand or have not experienced, but I am beginning to think the full moon and effect on moods is too obvious to just brush away. I have experienced many of the above mentioned, less sleep, becoming emotional, moody, quiet, headache’s. Some sceptics or scientists would point this to just my character but I am of a normal, happy, outgoing nature. I have recently realised that these ‘out of character’ experiences only apply when there’s a full moon and I don’t see it is a full moon until after the event. It is only these past few months that I began connecting the two. One particular day I was in a quiet mood all day, I new it but just couldn’t change it, nothing had happened to provoke it. On speaking to friends that night, one male admitted he was in a terrible mood and for no good reason and a girlfriend said she had been a terrible b**** that night and didn’t know why, these people are normally easy going and I was surprised to hear this and yes there was a full moon. I know this is not scientific evidence or proof of anything, but we have to wonder at the power of nature, don’t we?

]]> By: Lee http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4590 Lee Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:15:44 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4590 it seems overwhelming, lots of people are recording their anecdotal evidence here that a full moon effects alot of people. maybe not all, but alot! i definitely get alot of the same effects - more energy, less sleep, i get very fiery and talk a mile a minute to anyone who will listen. i'm sure people think i am a bit nutty sometimes - maybe i should wear a warning sign during a full moon! it seems overwhelming, lots of people are recording their anecdotal evidence here that a full moon effects alot of people. maybe not all, but alot! i definitely get alot of the same effects – more energy, less sleep, i get very fiery and talk a mile a minute to anyone who will listen. i’m sure people think i am a bit nutty sometimes – maybe i should wear a warning sign during a full moon!

]]> By: shereen http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4535 shereen Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:23:03 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4535 really the full moon affects me badly when the full moon appears it makes me in a bad mood and expecting horrible problem and it does happen i don't know what to do i started to wait the full moon and really afraid of the days really the full moon affects me badly when the full moon appears it makes me in a bad mood and expecting horrible problem and it does happen i don’t know what to do i started to wait the full moon and really afraid of the days

]]> By: Kristen http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4522 Kristen Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:31 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4522 I used to work in a salon and it never failed that after a strange day with some of the clients at some point I would notice that there was a full moon. I was not looking for a full moon so I know my observation was not influenced by that knowledge. I'm not a scientist but as a regular joe I have noticed strange behavior with people and then saw that it had been a full moon. I also noticed that when my 11 year old daughter was a baby she seemed more restless on nights that it was a full moon. I began noticing this pattern when she was about 4 months old. The nights that she fussed the most were always the brightest due to a full moon. I was able to predict this behavior and adjust to it just by looking to see when the next full moon would be. Just my own observations. I think that there are things that happened during a full moon that I just can't chalk up to something else. I used to work in a salon and it never failed that after a strange day with some of the clients at some point I would notice that there was a full moon. I was not looking for a full moon so I know my observation was not influenced by that knowledge. I’m not a scientist but as a regular joe I have noticed strange behavior with people and then saw that it had been a full moon. I also noticed that when my 11 year old daughter was a baby she seemed more restless on nights that it was a full moon. I began noticing this pattern when she was about 4 months old. The nights that she fussed the most were always the brightest due to a full moon. I was able to predict this behavior and adjust to it just by looking to see when the next full moon would be. Just my own observations. I think that there are things that happened during a full moon that I just can’t chalk up to something else.

]]> By: Lisa Davis http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4365 Lisa Davis Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:02:14 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4365 oh and obgyns also say more women go into labor during full moons! there was a study done on a university dorm hall that was to detect the girls menstrual cycles..the study concluded that women just being in the same general facility of others eventually change their dates of their menstrual cycles...also that was common in the school...and my best friends..the more women i was around on a daily or regular basis...our cycles would end up being right there together...i don't follow horoscopes but those are also based upon the moon under which your born..and even though i don't follow horoscopes..the zodiac profiles are so in keen with personalities that when i was in high school i could meet a stranger and guess their birthdays within 7 days of the date of their birthdays...and this is just through common conversation.... i'm sorry but i think we are much too skeptical of the unexplained and just not open minded at the years what has become apart of legends...eventually i think if there wasn't some truth about things...it would just disappear...i think that is one of the reason's that mental illness and certain behaviors are often more effected than what we call stable or normal...because we find and look for reason to say this has happened we seem to need understand..and it there is no logic to what has happened ...i don't think we nor anyone really understands the dynamics that not only control our actions, thoughts and experiences but seriously we only use a very very small percentage of our brains and those who use a higher amount we can't even phantom what type of things we'd be capable of doing or achieving oh and obgyns also say more women go into labor during full moons! there was a study done on a university dorm hall that was to detect the girls menstrual cycles..the study concluded that women just being in the same general facility of others eventually change their dates of their menstrual cycles…also that was common in the school…and my best friends..the more women i was around on a daily or regular basis…our cycles would end up being right there together…i don’t follow horoscopes but those are also based upon the moon under which your born..and even though i don’t follow horoscopes..the zodiac profiles are so in keen with personalities that when i was in high school i could meet a stranger and guess their birthdays within 7 days of the date of their birthdays…and this is just through common conversation…. i’m sorry but i think we are much too skeptical of the unexplained and just not open minded at the years what has become apart of legends…eventually i think if there wasn’t some truth about things…it would just disappear…i think that is one of the reason’s that mental illness and certain behaviors are often more effected than what we call stable or normal…because we find and look for reason to say this has happened we seem to need understand..and it there is no logic to what has happened …i don’t think we nor anyone really understands the dynamics that not only control our actions, thoughts and experiences but seriously we only use a very very small percentage of our brains and those who use a higher amount we can’t even phantom what type of things we’d be capable of doing or achieving

]]> By: Lisa Davis http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4364 Lisa Davis Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:49 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4364 scientifically speaking i can not give evidence on how full moons effect the minds and behavior of normal or consider unstable..but from a teachers prospective, when i worked in the school system teachers were always saying, it must be a full moon because the classrooms were more disruptive and the children were much more "wired"...we (my 13 year old son and a group of his friends) had a new years eve party this year..and it was interrupted by a spirit just before midnight...full moon or even a blue moon at that, i don't know but i had a house full of very scared children! i have also heard from policemen that crime and incidents occur more on a full moon...you can argue the criminal minds have behavioral issues but what about the students...and our incident? animals also act differently during a full moon...i do think there is too much that happens to discount the fact that full moons do effect many aspects of people and not just those who are challenged scientifically speaking i can not give evidence on how full moons effect the minds and behavior of normal or consider unstable..but from a teachers prospective, when i worked in the school system teachers were always saying, it must be a full moon because the classrooms were more disruptive and the children were much more “wired”…we (my 13 year old son and a group of his friends) had a new years eve party this year..and it was interrupted by a spirit just before midnight…full moon or even a blue moon at that, i don’t know but i had a house full of very scared children! i have also heard from policemen that crime and incidents occur more on a full moon…you can argue the criminal minds have behavioral issues but what about the students…and our incident? animals also act differently during a full moon…i do think there is too much that happens to discount the fact that full moons do effect many aspects of people and not just those who are challenged

]]> By: Sven http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4305 Sven Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:17:39 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4305 I find it odd why main-stream science is desperately trying to disprove the notion that full moon influences people, while at the same time admitting there is "very little evidence"? So there is evidence? P.S. Guess what, it's full moon now :) I find it odd why main-stream science is desperately trying to disprove the notion that full moon influences people, while at the same time admitting there is “very little evidence”? So there is evidence?

P.S. Guess what, it’s full moon now :)

]]> By: Cynthia http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4304 Cynthia Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:47:20 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4304 About once a month my husband becomes irrational, moody and argumentative. I've kept track of these occurances on my calendar for several years, and they all correspond to the full moon. I didn't believe it at first myself. I haven't told him about this (he wouldn't believe me) so it can't be due to 'bias confirmation'. Seems to me now that there must be some grain of truth behind all the folklore. About once a month my husband becomes irrational, moody and argumentative. I’ve kept track of these occurances on my calendar for several years, and they all correspond to the full moon. I didn’t believe it at first myself. I haven’t told him about this (he wouldn’t believe me) so it can’t be due to ‘bias confirmation’. Seems to me now that there must be some grain of truth behind all the folklore.

]]> By: Justice http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-4167 Justice Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:58:16 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-4167 Okay, okay. We might not all believe about the effects on Full moon. But this is a real personal experince, that ONLY happens on full moon. I've recored it in a notebook, too. EVERY full moon, I cna't fall asleep until sometime between 12 midnight and 2:30 AM. It's never any other night just full moon. Who knows, maybe it's just me or the full moon. Or just because I have the oh-so gifted 6th sense. I have no clue. Okay, okay. We might not all believe about the effects on Full moon. But this is a real personal experince, that ONLY happens on full moon. I’ve recored it in a notebook, too. EVERY full moon, I cna’t fall asleep until sometime between 12 midnight and 2:30 AM. It’s never any other night just full moon. Who knows, maybe it’s just me or the full moon. Or just because I have the oh-so gifted 6th sense. I have no clue.

]]> By: Kristi http://www.scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/comment-page-1/#comment-3931 Kristi Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:11:47 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/ask-grant-fullmoon/#comment-3931 Spend some time in an elementary school classroom on a full moon day. no doubts in my mind. Spend some time in an elementary school classroom on a full moon day.

no doubts in my mind.

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