It's a post rainy night with a densely overcast sky. But a very round and full moon is still visible beneath the clouds. Funny that it is actually the 17th of the lunar month and the moon appears rounder, but definitely not brighter than the moon two nights ago - on the 15th day of the lunar month.
But it's all quiet tonight, unlike two nights ago. On late Sunday night, when it was almost midnight, my two dogs joined other dogs in the neighbourhood and started barking away incessantly. I went and check, there was nobody and not even a cat or a cockroach in sight!
The barking and howling continued on and off for sometime, and I was getting a little worried.
Then my dad reminded me when we were at the balcony looking up at the bright but slightly elongated round moon. It was full moon, he told me. And yes, many animals, as well as some human beings act weirdly during full moon.
I only vaguely know of the scientifc explanation that the moon affected the tide, but we all know about stories of werewolves on a fullmoon.
Yes, the wolves are one animal affected by full-moon. Dogs are supposedly in the family of wolves.
That explains why the dogs, including Jojo and Jelly, were really behaving quite odd that night! I was a bit surprised at Jojo and Jelly, unusually hyper-active and manic, and were howling and barking at anything or at nothing.
That continued for almost two hours, and then all is quiet.
Then dad told me (could he be half joking) that he too feels manic and affected on a fullmoon night. As for me, I never detected anything myself...
What about you? let me know if fullmoon affects you like it does to two Js? Although I don't think you would be barking at nothing.. hehe..
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Dear ET, did some quick Googled research and found the following:
"Indian Journal of Medical Science Vol. 58 No. 5, May, 2004 , pp. 191-195
THE FULL MOON AND ADMISSION TO EMERGENCY ROOMS
MOOSA ZARGAR, ALI KHAJI, AHMAD KAVIANI, MOJGAN KARBAKHSH, MASUD YUNESIAN, MORTEZA ABDOLLAHI
Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Sina hospital, Tehran, Imam-Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Tehran university and Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Correspondence: Moosa Zargar, MD; Po Box 11365/3876, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: zargarmo@sina.tums.ac.ir
Code Number: ms04034
ABSTRACT
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate an ancient hypothesis; the moon effect might increase incidence of injuries and hence admission of patients with trauma to Emergency Rooms (ERs) on full moon days. Methods: During thirteen months, 58000 trauma patients admitted in three hospitals that had the highest load of trauma patients in Tehran were studied. Due to lack of complete data, 3543 patients (6.1%) were excluded from the study, leaving 54457 cases for further analysis. We selected lunar calendar for our study, so dates of patients' admissions were converted to lunar months and three day- periods with 15th as middle day were defined as full moon days. Results: In our study the number of trauma patients was not increased during the full moon days against other days of lunar month. Statistical analyses of data didn't exhibit a positive relation between full moon days and increasing of trauma patient admission to ERs. An association between assault and attempted suicide was not observed around the full moon days either. The results did not show significant reduction of GCS score of patients on full moon days and there was not any increase in severity of traumatic injury sustained during full moon days. Conclusions: It seems necessary to conduct studies regarding the probability of moon effect through on different database, geographic areas and for appropriate periods in order to reach a conclusive result."
On the other hand....
"Can the Full Moon
Affect Human Behavior?
by John Townley
STATISTICS DON'T LIE;
ONLY STATISTICIANS DO
Probably the most distinguished work connecting planetary cycles with events and trends in the lives of individuals has been that of French psychologist and statistician Michel Gauquelin. In the mid-1960s he set out to disprove astrology statistically by analyzing planetary positions at the births of professionals, using samples as large as 10,000, 15,000, and 20,000. Astrologers have always believed that certain planets coming up over the horizon, or directly overhead at a person's birth, guide that individual toward a certain profession.
To Gauquelin, the task he had set for himself seemed like a piece of cake. All he had to do was prove that the planet associated with athletic achievement, Mars, fell at random points in the nativities of 10,000 or 15,000 athletes, and that would be that astrology would be debunked. To emphasize his point he also investigated groups of doctors, lawyers, writers, and others in jobs associated by astrologers with specific planets.
To Gauquelin's surprise, the results turned out to be exactly the opposite of what he had expected. Mars did appear to be rising or culminating in a vast number of athletes? birth charts. Similarly, Jupiter appeared for bankers, Saturn for doctors, Mercury for writers, and so on. Gauquelin was astounded. Had he accidentally proved the case for astrology when he had meant to debunk it?
Actually, he had done a lot more than that because his data not only confirmed traditional astrological assignments, they uncovered new ones. For writers, for instance, the traditionally associated planet is Mercury. Gauquelin found that Mercury was indeed significant in writers?natal charts, but he also found that the moon was equally important, something astrologers had never posited.
Gauquelin's work established the fact that planetary positions do affect human disposition, talent, and direction and that these effects can be specifically determined by scientific methods such as statistical analysis and probability."
AND,....
"Do animals bite more during a full moon? Retrospective observational analysis"
Chanchal Bhattacharjee, staff grade practitioner a, Peter Bradley, consultant a, Matt Smith, general practitioner b, Andrew J Scally, statistician c, Bradley J Wilson, house officer a.
a Accident and Emergency Department, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford BD9 6RJ, b Clayton Surgery, Clayton, Bradford BD14 6JA, c School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD5 0BB
Correspondence to: C Bhattacharjee cbhattacharjee@hotmail.com
Abstract
Objective: To test the hypothesis that the incidence of animal bites increases at the time of a full moon.
Design: Retrospective observational analysis.
Setting: Accident and emergency department at a general hospital in an English city.
Subjects: 1621 consecutive patients, irrespective of age and sex.
Main outcome measures: Number of patients who attended an accident and emergency department during 1997 to 1999 after being bitten by an animal. The number of bites in each day was compared with the lunar phase in each month.
Results: The incidence of animal bites rose significantly at the time of a full moon. With the period of the full moon as the reference period, the incidence rate ratio of the bites for all other periods of the lunar cycle was significantly lower (P <0.001).
Conclusions: The full moon is associated with a significant increase in animal bites to humans."
It may be the case that humans have more control over their behaviour and can resist the primal urge within as induced by the proximity of the moon, thus having no significant impact on emergency room intakes.
Just be careful with the 2 Js around full moon time.
Dougyau
Thanks for this long scientific study info! But i don't think my two Js would bite on fullmoon unless perhaps provoked? And as you can see, they are already wild enough even not during full moon...
Your nephews and niece too are affected by full moon... They go wild...
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