{"id":223918,"date":"2016-12-28T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/my\/full-moon-disrupt-quality-sleep-223918.html"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:20:49","slug":"full-moon-disrupt-quality-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/my\/health-my\/medical-news-my\/full-moon-disrupt-quality-sleep-223918.html","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Snooze: Can the full moon affect the quality of your sleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The full moon is a pretty sight to behold, but apparently there\u2019s more to the distant rock than just its ability to change the tides on our planet. A study in the journal Current Biology<\/em> has suggested that we humans are more prone to getting lower quality sleep<\/a> during the time of full moons. In fact, the study has shown that we may very well snooze an average of 20 minutes less<\/strong> than we do during a new moon.<\/p>

Say what? Yeah, we\u2019re pretty surprised about this new finding too. But lead study author Christian Cajochen of the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel has given us some food for thought, saying: \u201cIf you ask people, at least in Switzerland, about 40% report feeling the moon during sleep<\/a>, or they blame the full moon for bad sleep.\u201d <\/em>And it was this survey result that prompted Cajochen and his colleagues to investigate the intriguing phenomenon.<\/p>

Results from the study<\/span> <\/h2>

Under strictly controlled conditions, 33 healthy volunteers aged between 20 and 74 were placed in a setting where there were no windows, so they had no way of knowing the phase of the moon at the time of the experiment (which lasted 3 and a half days). The results from the study were intriguing:<\/p>