Can you tell that people act differently when its a full moon?

Question

I take care of some residents at a group home and I can always tell when its a full moon because they act very weird and say things that aren't ordinary from them. Anyone else experience this?

Answer 1

No, not particularily. I don't believe that the moon phases affect people in any particular way. It could be the fact that the moon phase of the full moon occurs pretty regularily every month and there's natural hormonal cycles in humans that might spike and rise around with the month and it coincides with the phenomenon.

Answer 2

I have noticed the people in my street act differently. There are a particular strain of teenagers who go a bit crazy - well a lot more bouncey and off the wall than usual. The alpha males in the street experience a shorter fuse and become argumentive. These characteristics coincidentally happen only at night. It is very bizarre and quite scarey to think that an object in the night sky can change people just by the its rotations.

Answer 3

This is really interesting. This is one of the most persistent "urban legends" in all history, and people have been reporting this for thousands of years. It is intertwined with the development of the English language. The word "lunatic" means someone who has been driven crazy by the moon. The word "lunacy" means behavior induced by the moon.

Many, many people believe this. And yet when it is subjected to careful numerical analysis, it turns out not to be true. Sociologists, psychologists, and the US Dept of Justice have made studies of the relationship of crime statistics, commitments to mental institutions, fertility rates, suicide rates, and all the other things that people report, and have consistently found--every single time--that there is no correlation.

No connection whatsoever. How can it be that so many people--some of them very competent--seem to observe this phenomenon? Scientifically speaking, it is not true.

Answer 4

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence like yours, but when people actually look at records of events supposedly affected by the full moon, no effects are found.

I suspect this has far more to do with selective memory and confirmation bias than anything with the moon itself.

Answer 5

The only reason "the weirdos" may come out on a full moon is because it causes it to be lighter out at night, making it more inviting to come out.

The moon is only full because from Earth we can see one whole half illuminated by sunlight. This is caused simply by the position of the moon in it's orbit in relation to the sun and Earth.

Answer 6

I don't know. But I will take notice next time when its a full moon. But if people are acting weird when its a full moon, wouldn't you be acting weird too? I mean are you not "people"?

Answer 7

some clinics say they have more births on full moons (or is it new moons), some don't.

the Moon itself is always there, so it cannot be its gravity i.e. not related to tides and so on.

when it's a full moon you just get brighter nights, is all. This being said brighter nights mean a lot of people sleep less well, stay up later. This may be enough to spell trouble?

Answer 8

Lot of people seem to feel the effects of the moon.There seems to be an affliction on the human brain by the moon and and its gravitation. Philosophically explained, but science still requires lot of facts to prove. good luck

Answer 9

Definitely....I have a friend who has a total opposite personality when the full moon comes around....

Answer 10

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