Insanity or common issue?
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There's a reason they call it lunacy you know. People used to think the moon made people act funny. Maybe it has effect on human behavior, who knows. I certainly have never seen but it is possible, if unlikely.
Because even the most rational people, on occasion, let superstition sneak into there heads in harmless ways. Even if they tell themselves otherwise, people still end up seeing patterns where there are none. Need an example? Play D+D. Watch your die rolls. Ive seen the most cynical, scientific minded, down to earth realists imaginable start rolling a die repeatedly, waiting to hit a lucky streak before they have to make that key saving throw. Superstition is a powerful thing. Either that or something changes for you when you have more light at night.
Well I for one do enjoy the presence of the full moon, gazing at it, walking around under it, basking in it's glow, etc, but I don't notice anything different (besides that). I would make a meaningful suggestion, but everyone else before me seems to have got it right, leaving me with nothing else to say.
I find that the moon gives me more awareness to what happens around me on all plains mostly the spiritual beings who protect me
If I had to guess, this is a combination of the confirmation bias, psycho-physiological changes, and a few other cognitive dissonance type things.alexdulcianu said:
Basically, you may actually feel more energetic, due to expecting to feel more energetic. Your body responds to what you expect.
But, my more reasonable guess is that your lunacy (get it? I know where "lunatic" comes from, aren't I clever?) has the same origin as PMS: bad statistics work. You're looking back on previous events, and finding a pattern which doesn't actually exist (also called type-1 error, or apophenia to be pretentious). You're looking at a series of data, and finding a pattern both based on your recollection (usually faulty) and the human desire to find some sort of pattern to any series of information (always faulty).
On the PMS thing, before I get flamed for not understanding biology/women/ect., in studies where women track their moods on the actual day (rather than in hindsight), there is no significant difference in mood/moodswings/depression/agitation on days when "PMS" should be happening than on any other day. It's a random distribution which, due to the aforementioned confirmation bias, has come to have an incorrect pattern attributed to it.
Basically, women remember when they're agitated and on their period. You remember when you're excitable and it's a full moon. Women forget to account for times when they're agitated and not on their period, and I'll wager you're not taking into account the full moons you've been calm, or the other times you've been excited.
We like pattern-finding, and we're often wrong about it.
It's certainly plausible that the moon would affect the chemical balance of a persons brain...I shall have to look into the matter!
