By Andy | October 27, 2010 - 2:14 am - Posted in Insomnia


If there’s a full moon, you are more worried, hard to sleep well? If you answered yes, you are not alone. But it is not true.
Despite popular belief, long argued that the full moon interferes with a good night sleep, Austrian scientists have shown that sleep is not affected by the phases of the moon.In fact, had only 8 percent of respondents sleep while it was a full moon, compared with 25 percent who sleep with a particularly well on the night of the full moon reported. Good night, moon.

Every morning when she woke up, wrote to participants in a newspaper an assessment of sleepfull moon sleep 300x290 Full Moon Insomnia last night, including sleep quality and duration of sleep. They were also equipped with motion sensors so the researchers regardless of whether their sleep was restless, or quiet measure could.

With all these many links on the moon, it is not surprising that when the moon is full, some suffer from insomnia, others are suffering from strange dreams and nightmares and sleep walking.

The jury deliberated on the effects of the moon on sleep, even if, as some babies and adults, for whatever reason to sleep better when the moon is full, even if it falls on a cradle or a bed by a shop opened. Read The Full Story…


By Andy | April 23, 2009 - 12:56 am - Posted in Insomnia, News

The full moon can affect people in different ways. Does the full moon affect our sleep? How about the cycles of the moon? A lot of disorders seem to follow the phases of fullmoon1 Lunar Effects: Does full moon affect my sleep?the moon. While the moon is full, some people may suffer from insomnia, nightmares, strange dreams, and some people even sleepwalk. There is one more interesting fact that some people sleep better when the moon is full, even if its shine falls into their faces.

There is no doubt the phases of the moon do have an effect on the mind. In fact, the Moon has influenced life and the mind of Man since the beginning of time. The cavemen thought the moon was a God, and it’s depicted in many cave drawings. Many cultures, down through the ages, credited the moon with a great deal of influence. Even today, many of the New Age religions worship the Moon. Followers of astrology attribute a great deal of significance to the moon’s cycles. And the Pagan/Wiccan religion, for instance, is very moon-oriented. Read The Full Story…

By Andy | April 21, 2008 - 5:20 am - Posted in Insomnia, Sleep Habits

 

Does the full moon affect our sleep? How about the cycles of the moon? Many disorders seem to follow the phases of the moon. When the moon is full, some people may suffer from insomnia, nightmares, strange dreams, and some people even sleepwalk. There is one more interesting fact that some people sleep better when the moon is full, even if its shine falls into their faces.

… But: Austrian scientists have shown that sleep patterns are not affected by the phases offullmoon2 Lunar Effects: How Full Moon Can Affect Our Sleep the moon.

  • Numerous studies have tried to find lunar effects. Reuters reports that researchers with the Austrian Society for Sleep Medicine & Sleep Research examined the sleep patterns of 391 people in several European countries. About half the subjects had sleeping disorders, but no one knew the researchers were interested in the effect of the moon. “When I deal with patients with sleep problems, so many say that the full moon stopped them (from) sleeping, that even I was expecting some small difference to show up in the study,” Gerhardt Kloesch, the Vienna University psychologist who led the current research, told Reuters.
  • In fact, just 8 percent of those surveyed had problems sleeping while there was a full moon, compared to 25 percent who said they had a particularly good night’s sleep on the night of a full moon. Read The Full Story…