New evidence that the Moon affects sleep

Sleep is very important to people, but many of them have difficulty sleeping. The new study not only does not talk about possible distractions that can interrupt our sleep, but it focuses on the moon and its cycles. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists monitored sleep in Uppsala, Sweden, between the ages of 22 and 81, using polysomnography measurements to determine the onset, duration, and quality of sleep. I dream for one night .

Participants were tested while they slept, either during the waxing moon (when the amount of light on the moon increases) or during the waning moon (when its visible surface becomes smaller and smaller) .

Research results show that the lunar cycle affects a person's sleep and sleep disturbances in men are more pronounced than in women. That is, during the waxing moon, they both slept worse than during the waning. However, according to experts, this effect was especially pronounced in men .

Full moon, substitute for the sun

"Both the new moon and the full moon represent important turning points in the lunar cycle," said Christian Benedict, a researcher in the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University and head of the Total Environmental Science work .

It is believed that the increased brightness of the crescent, which reaches an optical crescendo on a full moon night, should have a detrimental effect on overall human sleep, as humans generally sleep better in the dark .

 

The human brain is likely to respond to moonlight when moonlight increases (during a crescent moon), keeping us awake, which may be more pronounced in men because the male brain responds more to ambient light than the human brain. woman, as suggested above.