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Full Moon Madness or Lunacy. Do You Think Such a Thing Really Exists?
Hi, All!
I do. I'm wondering what others think? I always feel a little bit weird around the time of a full moon. Just not quite as "in-sync" as I might be...
Any others, too? Or, not? Perhaps some people might be more susceptible to it than others?
What about policeman who might be witness to the way that people are at certain times of the month, or healthcare professionals?
All opinions are welcome. It is, after all, a matter of opinion. Perhaps logical opinions and expressions about the way people feel and think about it might be helpful and beneficial to others?
This thread, will no doubt, get excellent exposure on the Internet when people search for the subject!
Hi!
Yep, full moons always affect me too, usually make me more emotional and weepy sometimes. Am very aware of it now and can recognise when the moon is waning.
Lunacy does come from Lunar and as a nurse, when I worked in a old peoples nursing home, the residents with dementia were always markedly more confused around the time of a full moon.
If you think about it, the moon rules the tides, we are mostly made up of water so it seems obvious that it will therefore affect us in some way.
Very interesting subject matter!
Hi!
Yep, full moons always affect me too, usually make me more emotional and weepy sometimes. Am very aware of it now and can recognise when the moon is waning.
Lunacy does come from Lunar and as a nurse, when I worked in a old peoples nursing home, the residents with dementia were always markedly more confused around the time of a full moon.
If you think about it, the moon rules the tides, we are mostly made up of water so it seems obvious that it will therefore affect us in some way.
Very interesting subject matter!
Hi!
Yep, full moons always affect me too, usually make me more emotional and weepy sometimes. Am very aware of it now and can recognise when the moon is waning.
Lunacy does come from Lunar and as a nurse, when I worked in a old peoples nursing home, the residents with dementia were always markedly more confused around the time of a full moon.
If you think about it, the moon rules the tides, we are mostly made up of water so it seems obvious that it will therefore affect us in some way.
Very interesting subject matter!
Interesting question,
I have never noticed any changes as per the moon phases,not that I have consciously observed myself or others at these times.
------------------------ Philosophy of Science Portal: Lunatics
(Does a full moon really trigger strange behavior?by Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz February 9th, 2009 Scientific American)
But there are at least three reasons why this explanation doesn't "hold water," pardon the pun. First, the gravitational effects of the moon are far too minuscule to generate any meaningful effects on brain activity, let alone behavior. As the late astronomer George Abell of the University of California, Los Angeles, noted, a mosquito sitting on our arm exerts a more powerful gravitational pull on us than the moon does. Yet to the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports of a “mosquito lunacy effect.” Second, the moon’s gravitational force affects only open bodies of water, such as oceans and lakes, but not contained sources of water, such as the human brain. Third, the gravitational effect of the moon is just as potent during new moons—when the moon is invisible to us—as it is during full moons.
---------------- From the same link llusory correlations result in part from our mind's propensity to attend to—and recall—most events better than nonevents. When there is a full moon and something decidedly odd happens, we usually notice it, tell others about it and remember it. We do so because such co-occurrences fit with our preconceptions. Indeed, one study showed that psychiatric nurses who believed in the lunar effect wrote more notes about patients’ peculiar behavior than did nurses who did not believe in this effect. In contrast, when there is a full moon and nothing odd happens, this nonevent quickly fades from our memory. As a result of our selective recall, we erroneously perceive an association between full moons and myriad bizarre events.
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Hunting and Fishing Solunar (sun and moon phase) Calendar edited to add this excerpt from the link Research has shown that a natural day for fish and many other
animal species differ from our own. Their biological clock
appears to coincide with lunar time, which is the time that it
takes for the moon to reappear at a given point during one
complete rotation of the earth (an average of 24 hours and 53
minutes. This is called a Tidal Day and explains why the
ocean tides are about an hour later each day - and why most
fish, fresh water species included, will feed up to an hour later
(in relation to our solar clock) each day.
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