Full moon?? can anyone answer??

Question

hi all is it really true that people can become affected by the full moon??

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Full Moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic) and various "magical phenomena" such as lycanthropy. Psychologists, however, have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on human behavior around the time of a full moon.[7] They find that studies are generally not consistent, with some showing a positive effect and others showing a negative effect. In one instance, the December 23, 2000 issue of the British Medical Journal published two studies on dog bite admission to hospitals in England and Australia. The study of the Bradford Royal Infirmary found that dog bites were twice as common during a full moon, whereas the study conducted by the public hospitals in Australia found that they were less likely.

(which means "NO")

(i copy and pasted from wikipedia)

Answer 3

i haven't heard of anything remotely scientific concerning the effect of the moon cycle on people, but my grandmother always says that she can't sleep well when there's a full moon. maybe she's just something of a werewolf though, i dunno. :P

Answer 4

It controls the tides, and I've heard that it pulls the brain, stretching the breain stem.  So why not.

Answer 5

i highly doubt it

Answer 6

Heres some interesting facts i found on the web

Violence, Aggression and Crime



11,613 cases of aggravated assault in a 5-year period: assaults occurred more often around the full moon.

Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle (1978)

34,318 crimes in a 1-year period: crimes occurred more frequently during the full moon.

Reference: J. Psychology, vol. 93:81-83, 1976.

58,527 police arrests in a 7-year period: no difference in the number of arrests made during any phase of the moon.

Reference: Antisocial behavior and lunar activity: a failure to validate the lunacy myth (1977)

361,580 calls for police assistance in a 3-year period: calls had no relationship to the phase of the moon when the day of the week, holiday and year were controlled.

Reference: Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57:993-994, 1983.

1,289 aggressive "incidents" by hospitalized psychiatric patients in a 105-week period: no significant relationship between the severity or amount of violence/aggression and phase of the moon.

Reference: Lunar cycles and violent behaviour (1998)

The rate of agitation in 24 nursing home residents in a 3-month period: no significant relationship of agitation to moon phase.

Reference: Full moon: Does it influence agitated nursing home residents? (1989)

The number of aggressive offenses (fighting, threatening or assaulting an officer, creating a disturbance) for 1,300 male inmates in a medium security prison in a one year period: no significant relationship between agressive offenses and moon phase.

Reference: Full moon: Aggression in a prison setting as a function of lunar phases. (1998)

1,329 assaults in four prisons in a 2-year period: no difference in the number of assaults on full moon and non-full moon days.

Reference: Atlas, R., Violence in prison. Environmental influences, Enviro. Beh., 16:275-306, 1984.

2,017 homicides in a 3-year period: no relationship between the number of homicides and the phase of the moon.

Reference: Porkorny, A.D., Moon phases, suicide, and homicide, Am. J. Psychiatry, 121:66-67, 1964

20,500 homicides in the United States in a 1-year period: no relationship between the number of homicides and the phase of the moon.

Reference: Temporal variation in suicide and homicide (1979)

1,840 incidences of "acting-out" in people in a psychiatric treatment facility in a 3-year period: no relationship between the number of acting-out incidences and the phase of the moon.

Reference: Lunar phase and acting-out behavior (1986)



Anxiety, Depression and Psychosis



782 patient records and 4,600 consultations in an 18-year period: no relationship between the phase of the moon and the number of times people contacted their doctors for anxiety or depression.

Reference: Lunar cycle and consultations for anxiety and depression in general practice. (1997)

18,495 records from patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital in an 11-year period: admissions for psychosis were highest during the new moon and lowest during the full moon.

Reference: Lunar madness: an empirical study (1977)

25,568 psychiatric emergency room visits in a 13-year period: visits increased near the first quarter moon and a decreased around the new moon and full moon.

Reference: Human aggression and the lunar synodic cycle (1978)

8,473 psychiatric admissions in a 9-year period and 1,909 emergency psychiatric evaluations in a 1-year period: no relationship between admissions or evaluations and the phase of the moon.

Reference: No effect of lunar cycle on psychiatric admissions or emergency evaluations (2006)

The average number of contacts with psychiatric services over a 10-year period: no relationship between contacts and phase of the moon.

Reference: Frequency of contact with community-based psychiatric services and the lunar cycle: a 10-year case-register study (1997)

7,844 emergency calls to a suicide prevention/crisis call center in a 2-year period: the highest number of total calls was during the new moon, not the full moon. When calls for suicide threats were analyzed, there were more calls during the first quarter of the moon and new moon.

Reference: Moon phases and crisis calls: a spurious relationship (1977)

4,575 telephone calls to a crisis center in a 6-month period: no relationship between crisis center calls and moon phase.

Reference: Lunar phases and crisis center telephone calls (1990)

36,268 calls to a crisis center in a 8-year period: no relationship between crisis center calls and moon phase.

Reference: Investigation of periodicity in crisis intervention calls over an eight-year span (1979)

76,065 calls to a crisis center in a 4-year period: increased calls by females during the new moon period; decreased calls by males during the new moon period.

Reference: s*x difference in response to stress by lunar month: a pilot study of four years' crisis-call frequency. (2003)

736 telephone counseling calls in a 4-month p

Answer 7

Why not?  Its fun and at the same time beautiful.  Anybody who says that can't affect you is suffering from depression big time.

Lets phrase the question this way:  when are you most likely to go swimming at midnight:  New Moon or Full Moon?  So obvious that I am flabbergasted that people think that peer reviewed studies concluding anything else are relevant.

The flaw is the studies use proxies to study the real question:

Here's my stab at the real question:

Do you feel better under a full Moon than a New Moon?  (clear to partially cloudy).  Correlating this with crime, bee stings or s*x has to be established before these proxies can be used, and I doubt they've been correlated at the population level.

Obvious.

Answer 8

i dunno i have nvr heard it

Answer 9

the answer earlier about how full moons effect the tides is incorrect, the moon effects the tides regardless of how much of the moon is covered by earths shadow.

most if not all the "full moon causes this" myths are a resualt of confirmation bias, meaning that a person who, say works in a hospital, sees an increase in the amount of people coming in, sees if theres a full moon, turns out there isn't and they typically forget that night, than one time there is a full moon, and it is crowded so they remember it. they count the hits and ignore the misses, you can see the same type of thing in unedited psychic proformences in which the host makes tons of guesses but only a small amount of them are actually correct, yet the person being asked the questions thinks he is actually reading their mind, instead of vaguely guessing here and there.

Answer 10

There is no evidence the full moon effects us. For one, lets think about the moon's other cycles. Lets talk about the half or quarter moon. Just because you only see half or a quarter doesn't mean the whole moon isn't up there. Therfore, if the moon affects people's behavior, then you could only differentiate when the moon is on our side of the world or on the other, but not on whether the moon is fully illuminated, partially, or not at all. Either the moon has an effect or doesn't. The light reflected from the moon should make no difference. Otherwise, the sun itself would have drastic effects on psychology. Think about it. If the light from a fully illuminated moon causes people to act crazy, then when the light from the sun directly hits the earth, we all should be killing, robbing, raping, and pretty much killing each other off with no hope of civilization or order.

There is eveidence to suggest that the moon itself does tend to cause volcanoes to errupt, since it pulls upward upon the Earth. I can't remember names, but on Nat Geo there were a couple of vulcanologists who could accurately predict erruptions using the moon's placement over certain areas of the earth.

And, of course, the moon effects tides on the Earth.

Now, people may be psyched into thinking that they should behave differently when the moon is full. It isn't the moon itself causing people to act disorderly, but the culture which traditionally believes that the moon affects behavior.

Take care and God bless :) Hope this helps.

Answer 11

Of course. Look up gravity in the dictionary.

Answer 12

oh yes. every three full moons i am affected, with horny-ness.  sounds stupid i know but it is i always forget about it and guess what happens 3 months later? yup, even the neighbors need a cigarette after.  

Answer 13

A scene from a movie:

"The fundamental difference between men and women is that women have about an extra quart of water. It makes them subject to the tides.

Why can't we just drain them?

I think they're waiting for us to drink more water. "

It s a long held myth that the moon has a real affect on people. I don't believe it. I've never seen even a hint of any proof that more accidents happen on the full moon. Or anything else like that.  

Answer 14

Yes. It turns me into a wolf.

Answer 15

Werewolves usually just look like regular people, which makes it very difficult for one to find/kill them. Only once a month, on the full moon, do werewolves resort to their true tortured form. Then they ravage about, killing and eating. If you happen to see an incredibly hairy human-like figure storming across your yard at night, do not throw something at it. Just try to find where your dad keeps the silver bullets