gbee wrote: » The Moon has many effects on Earth not least regulatory, every 28 days we have a new Moon. The effects of the Moon have been long suspected and studies are not conclusive but generally if a human is experiencing an emotional event, they will get an enhancement at the time of full Moon and Perigee is it's most powerful of all. Hurricane Sandy is about to smash New York, and is expected to have maximum effect due to the full Moon. For what it's worth, I too woke up from a personal dream at about the same:eek: time ...............................
ForeverYoung90 wrote: » Just woke up screaming from one proper fu!ked up dream.It was really relevant to me and Im still shook up.Just looked out the window and staring back at me was a big,bright full moon.Is this a myth or what?
Sofaspud wrote: » Full moons have absolutely no effect on human brain activity or behaviour, other than in people who believe it will experiencing a placebo effect. There's the old argument of the moon affecting the tides but the gravitational pull of the moon on a persons brain would be roughly the same as standing close to a fat person.
jfallon wrote: » People have believed for thousands of years that the moon can affect our state of mind and even drive some people crazy. This is were the term lunatic derives!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic#Lunar_hypothesis
Gileadi wrote: » How long did people think the earth was flat for?
ForeverYoung90 wrote: » Is this a myth or what?
Several exogenous influences on the human female's menstrual cycle length have recently been demonstrated. Previously, sexual behavior and pheromonal influences have been described. This report evaluates lunar cyclicity patterns. A relationship is demonstrated between the onset of menstruation, among women who have 29.5 + 1 day menstrual cycles, and the onset of full moon. Four separate prospectively gathered sets of data are presented from different years and seasons. It is demonstrated that these women tend to menstruate in the full of the moon with a diminishing likelihood of menses onset as distance from full moon increases.
Investigation into the underlying mechanisms by which sexual behavior may affect the neuroendocrine rhythm of women has yielded evidence for a pheromonal influence (McClintock 1983, 1984; Cutler et al. 1984, 1986; Preti et al. 1986). Studies in our laboratories employing extracts of axillary secretions from donor men and donor women were shown to significantly alter the timing and length of menstrual cycles of nulliparous women in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study (Cutler et al. 1986; Preti et al. 1986, 1987). Consequently, there appear to be several exogenous influences which promote lunar type cycle lengths in women.
That the most fertile reproductive cycle has the same length as the lunar cycle, i.e. 29.5 days, is an intriguing biological coincidence. In 1979, we reported that although previous investigators had failed to find a relationship between menses onset and the lunar cycle, their failure derived from the inappropriateness to the methods employed. By selecting the subpopulation of women (approximately 30%) who cycle as often as the moon does, i.e. 29.5+1 day, a significant pattern was revealed. There was an increased likelihood of menstruation onset in the light half of the lunar month. Thus, in a selected population of 312 women, prospective menstrual cycle records maintained during the Autumn of 1977 showed that 69% of the subsample whose menstrual length was 29.5+ 1 day showed menses onset within 7.5 days of the full moon (Cutler 1980a). A year later, Friedmann (1981) replicated this phenomenon, reporting that 65% of a similarly sized population menstruated in the light half of the lunar cycle. In her sample, the split was optimized with a 3 day lag period after the quarter; i.e. the month was bisected 3 days after the first and third quarter.
The length of a woman's menstrual cycle has long been known to bear some reflection of the underlying endocrine milieu as well as her potential for fertility. Vollman at al. (1968, 1970, 1977) as well as Treloar et al. (1967, 1981) through their extensive prospective studies, have clearly shown that women whose cycles approach the 29.5 day span have the highest likelihood of fertile cycles, while women whose cycles become longer or shorter have a proportionately diminishing incidence of fertile cycles. About 28% of reproductively mature women show a 29.5 + 1 day cycle length
previous user wrote: » Researchers, have discovered a direct link between the moon causing the ebb and flow and of tides in the sea and the movement of blood vessels and fluids along the brain stem, which they say causes nightmares and dreams.
mattjack wrote: » I 've a parent who has lived in a care facility for a long time suffering from a degenerative brain disease , any time a full moon occurs his behaviour changes and he becomes less managable. So much so , I've commented to his nursing and care staff , there answer was that its quite common for the behaviour dementia,alzheimers and people with a brain disorder to change not in a threatening or very visable way .My parent would be agitated to the point he would want to keep walking and walking around and around where he lived.
Ziphius wrote: » But then surely we should see so called "Lunar effects" occurring twice a day coinciding with the tides rather than once a month coinciding with the full Moon.
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