DOES THE FULL MOON BRING OUT THE CRAZIES?
Kyle Reyes
Owner, Law Enforcement Today, Blue Lives Matter and The Police Tribune. CEO, The Silent Partner Marketing. Serial entrepreneur. Christian conservative. Keynote speaker.
It’s amazing how your body changes, as you get older. And about a year ago . . . I noticed a significant twist in my sleeping patterns.
Thing is . . . it ONLY happens during a full moon.
I’m an unbelievably deep sleeper . . . I can zonk out quickly and sleep until the alarm (or our kids) wake me up. Years of working in television will do that to you.
But when it’s a full moon . . . my body is SCREWED UP all night. It’s only when there’s a full moon. And it’s consistent with every full moon.
Is a full moon the driving force to crazy events?
The experts tell me it’s all in my head.
They say the full moon doesn’t impact people.
CHALLENGING SCIENCE
I’m calling “BS” on that.
I saw it when I use to work overnights in TV. When there was a full moon, without fail, the crazies came out.
My friends in law enforcement swear it as well. Same with nurses. Firefighters. Even teachers that I’m friends with.
There’s something about a full moon that just seems to screw people up.
But the thing is . . . there’s no scientific proof to back it up.
However, it’s not a new theory. Moreover, the idea that the moon messes with your body and mind goes all the way back to pre-Christian ties. Furthermore, even Hippocrates himself weighed in on the topic, stating: “No physician should be entrusted with the treatment of disease who was ignorant of the science of astronomy.”
Heck . . . it’s even in the word “lunatic.” The old English word for lunatic was monseoc, which literally means moon-sick.
So the hell with the experts – I want to know what YOU have all experienced. Is the full-moon-brings-out-the-crazies theory all in our heads . . . or do you see it on the streets as well?
This article originally appeared on Lawenforcementtoday.com and can be found by clicking HERE.
President-South Region at Global Medical Response
6 年Classic confirmation bias, I've been in EMS for 25 years and in law enforcement, I used to believe it too but if you actual write down the data over a a year or two (has to be that long as there are only 13 full moons per year) you will see it is confirmation bias. You remember the occurrences which support your belief but not those which do not (eg you don’t recall the times you didn’t sleep well and there was no full moon or you didn’t recall the times you did sleep well and there was one).
I help people build the stage in which their greatest memories will take place…..their home.
6 年The placement of the moon affects gravity, which affects our ocean tides. If the moon can affect something that enormous, it only makes sense that it would have an effect on us as well!
Owner at Selling the Artist
6 年It's real.
Staff RN at University Hospitals Kent Emergency and Urgent Care. RN CEN
6 年Our bodies are 50-65% of water. So, it only makes sense that the full moon does affect us. It is crazy in the ER during a full moon.