If you keep on tossing and turning, but still can not go to sleep, try to look out your window.Results of a new study suggest that the moon may be the culprit causing this situation.Even when a group of volunteers moved to sleep in a completely dark room, with no windows, they also have to fumble to 25 minutes in bed than usual on the night of the full moon.
These new findings provide further evidence of science for the word of mouth among the people for many centuries, that the change in human behavior related to the cycles of the moon. But it does not entirely confirm the myth of the werewolf, but the study has taken the question of the relationship between the circadian clock with the motion of the moon. The science was there evidence The most obvious basis for the existence and operation of the circadian rhythm in humans. However, the so-called circadian rhythms Moon (or lunar rhythm period) has not been verified to be in existence or not. Michael Smith - a graduate student at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), who was the head of the team said: "The body is more likely to beat moon period. It may be an evolutionary advantage to humans becoming more active on moonlit nights for activities such as hunting or always in the mind alert to the threat. "The study was published in Current Biology page, implement based on the results of a previous experiment with 47 people are required to sleep in a room defined during 6 nights. This experiment focuses on the human reaction How previous noise during sleep, but Mr. Smith has re-evaluated the results and compare them with the lunar cycle. He found that the average volunteer about 25 minutes less sleep as close to the time of the full moon . Of these, men are affected more strongly by the moon period, and their sleep may miss up to 50 minutes / night. All the study subjects were more sensitive to ambient noise during full moon . It is known that the bedrooms of volunteers with no windows to eliminate the influence of light.Professionals Smith acknowledged that the need to continue further research before making any firm conclusions no. Besides, Russell Foster - a professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford (UK), said that the continued exploitation of clarification before giving negative results of Smith's research, is needed set. In the past, research by British scientists also have shown people often have vivid dreams full at the time of the full moon. Most recently as research psychologist Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire, discovered the contents of people's dreams do not change according to the season or day of the week. But the day of the full moon, dreams "strange and bizarre" happening more often.