Full moon

Spoke to my DH about this thread - he used to be a prison officer. He said it was widely recognised that inmates could get 'lively' at the time of a full moon.

My son has MH difficulties - I have never come across any comment on this before in the ten + years he has needed treatment. It seems more than just an old wives tale and might be helpful to take into consideration.

I work in the field of mental health and occasionally feel that what is at work .

ruby I think the fact is that we are all complex human beings, but it is interesting to talk about what affects different people different ways.

PRINTMISS I don't know about the time of day affecting your temperament, but I do know that I feel happier at this time of day, around the time of day I was born. 5 am.

www.gardeningbythemoon.com/lunarfacts.html

I quite often sleep even worse than normal (which isn't very good at the best of times!) around the full moon :-/

Nellie

"*I must stop myself being such a misery guts by pouring cold water over every one else's imaginations by an insistance on reality all the time.
Our imagination is much more fun than real life*"

I guess this depends upon your own version of reality and that your opinion of your reality may be very different from someone elses or other studies.

I must stop myself being such a misery guts by pouring cold water over every one else's imaginations by an insistance on reality all the time.
Our imagination is much more fun than real life.

I would want to see the results of a scientifically run experiment before I was convinced. There are lots of anecdotal reports about this effect though.

I wonder if the effect of the moon on people depends upon the time of day they were born? That is just a thought, no real evidence of, but I do think that the time of day people are born sometimes influences their temperament. It is a theory I have about my friends' children, and how they have developed.

?The moon affects the tides, but we are people and not made of seawater.There would have to be a huge study to get real evidence.

Well the moon's gravitational effects makes a difference to the ocean tides so why not some people? But the evidence is shaky and largely anecdotal.
There has probably never been any serious scientific research, but if you think it affects you it probabaly will.

www.bbc.com/future/story/20131029-does-a-full-moon-make-people-mad

"This study got a lot of publicity, however there were only 33 people in it and even the authors were cautious about inferring too much from the results. Combining the results of multiple pieces of research in a meta-analysis is one way to ensure findings have stronger statistical foundations. US psychologists James Rotton and Ivan Kelly took this approach in 1985, combining the findings of 37 studies on the effects of the lunar cycle. They concluded it was unrelated to the numbers of psychiatric admissions, murders, car accidents, suicides and crimes"

33 people is just not enough to do a reasonable study.

Sorry to remove some magic from you. By all means go out and have a howl at the moon for me.

I think I'm more influenced, mood-wise, by a new moon. I noticed it a couple of years ago, always seem to feel down at that time!

I don't think there is any real evidence for this at all, old wives tales.I never even notice when there is a full moon, but when I do, just think, how lovely it looks.

Jamila , yes many farmers plant according to the cycle of the moon

Yes, I have heard that about the wind, DD's friend always says the children are more naughty when it is very windy.

However, I can't see how it can affect the level of the oceans
Just the tides.

I have heard farmers say that they plant just before a full moon.

According to the theory, plants that are sown in the few days before a full moon become stronger and more productive, and those sown as the moon is waning tend to be less so.
The moon gardeners claim that the gravitational force of the full moon affects the level of groundwater in the soil, just as it does the level of the oceans. With more water being drawn up into the soil during a full moon, any newly-sown seeds are boosted by the increased hydration.
Plants are also said to benefit from the bright light reflected from the sun by a full moon, with some believers claiming lunar changes cause distortions in the Earth’s magnetic field that can encourage or limit plant growth.

As a teacher years ago in a tough area of Birkenhead we knew the Full Moon affected behaviour as did wind, get the two together and it was dreadful being on yard duty.

Totally agree about some pupils being 'more lively' (one way of putting it!) during a full moon. Add in a good wind at the same time and they could be even more so. And before someone says they were 'lively' because we were expecting them to be at that time, I can assure you that that was not the case.

I remember regulating my horrendously irregular periods by adjusting to lunar months. I didn't expect it to work,but it did!

There have been a couple of reviews of the studies into the theory. One in 1985 reviewed 37 studies and another in 1992 reviewed 20 studies. The conclusion of both reviews was there was no link and the original researchers who believed they had identified a link, had often failed to take account of variations like the days of the week on which full moon happened to fall.

My Mum used to swear the was a link though. She worked as a housing officer and thought more people would act out in the housing centre around the full moon. She'd also had this confirmed by the local police officers and the local A&E.

I think it's just one of those myths we want to believe. Maybe deep in our evolution there was and some of us feel it more than others. When I see the full moon I just think the garden will be lit up for a few nights!

High winds and full moons meant noisy playground and more twitchy pupils. Can't really say how staff members wdre affected!

Pen my mother was a teacher and said the same if it was very windy!

In school we used to check the state of the moon when the kids got lively!