11. It Has Been Known To Affect Sleep Patterns
The next time you find yourself tossing and turning in your sleep, take a look out the window and examine if the moon is full. Studies have shown that a full moon actually does seem to affect one’s sleeping behavior. A sleep researcher at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel in Switzerland, named Christian Cajochen, completed a study that examined the sleep patterns of more than 30 individuals. The study found that one’s brain activity that was related to sleep, dropped about 30% when there was a full moon. It also concluded that it took the individuals approximately five more minutes to fall asleep than normal and they ended up sleeping for about 20 minutes less than average. Circalunar rhythms may be to blame for these findings, and are known to be about a month in length, which plays out perfectly with the timing between two full moons.
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