full moon, can't sleep
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- SunSunSun
Almost 2 in the morning here. Always really restless and can't get to sleep when there's a full moon. Does anyone else have this?
- canuck0
Not everyone is a werewolf
- inteliboy0
Yep. If it happens too often, get some exercise.
- SunSunSun0
googling the phenomenon shows I'm definitely not alone in this. Pretty damn weird though if you think about it.
Thanks inteliboy - I actually swam loads today... but yeah that usually is a good one.
- fourth0
read. stay away from computer (too late)
- thumb_screws0
Yep, Valerian root, cup of tea, and a difficult book. Or some weed.
Otherwise just go with it but makes sure you tether yourself to something so you don't wake up like this.
- yeah, the 'just go with it' usually is the best thing. lol @ picSunSunSun
- scarabin0
smoke a bowl and wank yourself to sleep
- set0
Just woke up and can't get back to sleep. 3.43am.
Weird dreams.
- Naygon0
Yep.. and the computer doesn't really help. I found Flux to be a good app to slowly dim the screen as the night goes on. Just don't be color correcting late at night, or make sure it's disabled.
- falcadia0
Yes! I tossed and turned all last night and now I just realized it's almost 1 am. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
- sine0
whiskey
- mydo0
yup. been awake since 5am
- SunSunSun0
thanks guys. crappy night is over.
Some are different theories on this:
- the moon affecting you with it's gravitational pull like it does with the tides.
- or that our primordial ancestors got up to all sorts of shenanigans with a full moon and it's in our genetics.Dunno. Glad to hear I'm not the only one though...
- actually, fulll moon was a perfect time for our ancestors to hunt, moon cults (opposed to sun cults) were developedpressplay
- goldieboy0
Finally got to sleep at 4.30. Always have sleep issues a day before, during and after a full moon. I'm glad it's a full moon Friday though... Shenanigan time!
- mydo0
I don't think it's gravity, we're too small and too far away, we would be far more effected by things closer to us, like another human being for example.
I used to live in Broome in Western Australia, it's a strange place with big moons, huge tides, and no other towns for a thousand miles. One of my friends was a nurse, and it was a well understood fact that full moon days were when things got out of control. Tourists, locals, Aboriginals, all got crazy.
I wonder if there is any good data on this?
- I read on another site that hospital staff would pay people to take their shift on full moon.SunSunSun
- what the FUCK? The Moon changes TIDES and affects women's menstrual cycle. Of COURSE it affects us.monospaced
- The gravity of another person is negligible at best, and FAR smaller than the moon's. You on crack.monospaced
- Fax_Benson0
Every time you don't sleep well and notice there's a full moon, you make a mental note of it. Every other time you don't sleep and there isn't a full moon, you think nothing of it, reinforcing the connection between full moon and bad sleep.
- OMG, you must be a Capricorn!mydo
- haha.Fax_Benson
- hahagoldieboy
- Yep, wondered about this too!SunSunSun
- but it's never a problem unless I've had too much caffiene or something. That's why i check.SunSunSun
- mydo0
on the upside, it's 11am and i've already done 4 hours of work!
- set0
It's pretty common knowledge butill say it anyway. Tis is where the origin of the world 'lunatic' comes from as it is/was believed that the moon effect people's minds and behaviour.
It makes sense. The moon moves the oceans... We are, as the alien on star trek once put, bags of mostly water.
- common knowledge isn't the same as science factFax_Benson
- Thanks captain obvious. I just meant that I'm sure most people have heard of it.set
- inteliboy0
Why not just the fact that it lights up everything? People are more inclined to stay out and get up to all sorts of things if they can actually see... ie on a full moon. Always seemed obvious to me, though bound up with theories of mind controlling moon gravity.