The Moon could change the way you sleep, according to science – BGR

• The effects of the Moon on humans have long been debated, but new research shows that it is definitely affecting our sleep.
• A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the amount of sleep we get, and when we get tired, has a real, measurable effect at the moon level.
• Participants in the study wore sleep detectors and their habits were followed for up to two months.

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It is often said that a full moon forces people to work in a different way than they could on any other night at a different stage of the Moon. Ancient civilizations often put a lot of emphasis on lunar phases and some believed that some things only happened at certain lunar phases, like a full moon. Now, science offers some support for these theories.

In a new study published in Advances in science, volunteer researchers from Argentina’s indigenous communities wore sleep detectors for up to two months to monitor their sleep habits. Approximately 100 local people took part in the study. The data was also compared to sleep data collected from more than 450 Seattle residents, and the similarities were striking.

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The study sought to find out the differences in sleep patterns based on the moonlight, and since it is the full moon and the days leading up to the brightest nights, it makes sense that the natives (some of whom had no access or limited electricity) stayed up later on nights with a bright moon and slept nearly an hour less than other nights of the month.

This result, by itself, would be very interesting if only because it gives us an insight into how our pre-industrial ancestors would have behaved because of different phases of the Moon. However, the study takes an even more dramatic turn when the data from Seattle was imported. As it turned out, city dwellers, despite having access to artificial light in so many forms, also exhibited different sleep patterns based on the phase of the moon.

“The fact that this modeling was present even in communities with full access to electric light shows that these effects are mediated by something other than the light of the moon itself,” said Leandro Casiraghi, lead author of the research. CNN.

But how could the Moon affect humans if light is not the only factor? That part remains unclear, but researchers have their theories. One such theory is that people who do more than just the 24-hour day and sleep / wake-up cycles have indoor clocks. Many animals have many responses at times of the year, even though seasonal changes do not bring about major changes in the weather. People may have had the same change for a long time, and stay up late when the moon is brightly burned into our DNA. Of course, that is just theory.