FULL MOON AFFECTS MOODS FULL
In these groups, they showed that the nights leading up to a full moon was when people slept the least and went to bed the latest. "And although the effect is more robust in communities without access to electricity, the effect is present in communities with electricity, including undergraduates at the University of Washington." "We see a clear lunar modulation of sleep, with sleep decreasing and a later onset of sleep in the days preceding a full moon," lead author Horacio de la Iglesia, a professor of biology at the University of Washington, said in a statement. The team found that, while the connection between sleep cycles and lunar cycles is a bit more obvious in communities without electricity access, the connection still seems to be present in areas with electricity as well. Using sleep-monitoring wrist devices, they studied 98 individuals living in three Toba-Qom indigenous communities in Formosa, Argentina and additionally used sleep data from 464 college students in the Seattle area (the data from the college students was originally collected for a separate study).
For this work, the team studied college students in the city of Seattle, Washington, and also with those living in indigenous communities in northern Argentina, two different environments where there is a variety in individual access to electricity because of how artificial light might affect the participants. They found that, in the days leading up to a full moon, people tend to go to sleep later and sleep for fewer hours. 27) in the journal Science Advances, a team of scientists from the University of Washington, the National University of Quilmes in Argentina and Yale University show how sleep cycles seem to change with the lunar cycle. People go to bed later and sleep fewer hours the night before a full moon, and menstrual cycles seem to temporarily synchronize with moon cycles, scientists have found in two new studies.
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