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Lunacy and the Full Moon; trigger strange behavior?
Topic Started: Feb 24 2009, 04:10 AM (796 Views)
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Lunacy and the Full Moon
Does a full moon really trigger strange behavior?
By Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz

Across the centuries, many a person has uttered the phrase “There must be a full moon out there” in an attempt to explain weird happenings at night. Indeed, the Roman goddess of the moon bore a name that remains familiar to us today: Luna, prefix of the word “lunatic.” Greek philosopher Aristotle and Roman historian Pliny the Elder suggested that the brain was the “moistest” organ in the body and thereby most susceptible to the pernicious influences of the moon, which triggers the tides. Belief in the “lunar lunacy effect,” or “Transylvania effect,” as it is sometimes called, persisted in Europe through the Middle Ages, when humans were widely reputed to transmogrify into werewolves or vampires during a full moon.

Even today many people think the mystical powers of the full moon induce erratic behaviors, psychiatric hospital admissions, suicides, homicides, emergency room calls, traffic accidents, fights at professional hockey games, dog bites and all manner of strange events. One survey revealed that 45 percent of college students believe moonstruck humans are prone to unusual behaviors, and other surveys suggest that mental health professionals may be still more likely than laypeople to hold this conviction. In 2007 several police departments in the U.K. even added officers on full-moon nights in an effort to cope with presumed higher crime rates.

Water at Work?
Following Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, some contemporary authors, such as Miami psychiatrist Arnold Lieber, have conjectured that the full moon’s ­supposed effects on behavior arise from its influence on water. The human body, after all, is about 80 percent water, so perhaps the moon works its mischievous magic by somehow disrupting the alignment of water molecules in the nervous system.

But there are at least three reasons why this explanation doesn’t “hold water,” pardon the pun. First, the gravitational effects of the moon are far too minuscule to generate any meaningful effects on brain activity, let alone behavior. As the late astronomer George Abell of the University of California, Los Angeles, noted, a mosquito sitting on our arm exerts a more powerful gravitational pull on us than the moon does. Yet to the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports of a “mosquito lunacy effect.” Second, the moon’s gravitational force affects only open bodies of water, such as oceans and lakes, but not contained sources of water, such as the human brain. Third, the gravitational effect of the moon is just as potent during new moons—when the moon is invisible to us—as it is during full moons.

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You are ALMOST as crazy as I am *giggles*


*HOWLSSSSSSSSSSSSSS at Moon*
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All I know is when there's a full moon the inmates seems weirder than normal.
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The moon causes tides,
It lifts the sea.
But oh my, no,
Iit can't affect me.

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I do think people are affected by the full moon. When my mother use to work in an old folks home the patients use to act up strangely.

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Since the moon does effect the tides, and Humans are 61.8% water, there is a possibility that the full moon would effect as well.
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I read once that more women go into labor during the full moon or especially the new moon.

Apparently the new moon's gravitational pull is stronger than the full moon's.

We do have a science teacher on board with Primal Rhythm... we should ask him :lmao:
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Are you pregnant She-ra? The Moon was Full last week! :lmao:
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I've heard that too She-Ra but let us remember that the full moon is every 28 days more or less. So let us not forget that either.
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I know when the moon is full I crave a lot more red meat.
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Are you pregnant She-ra? The Moon was Full last week! :lmao:
BITE YOUR TONGUE MANNNNNNNNNNN!!!

No I am not. :lmao:


Myst- the 28 days thing makes sense okay cool :)

NBM- :lmao: red meat!!! Ahhhhhh :lmao: you wolf you :)
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Interesting video.



What do you think?
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After watching the above video about full moons, I have decided I wish to have the host over for a barbecue and then eat him.
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