Why do full moons bring out the crazies???

[Help Please!]

Until I was a teacher, I always laughed at the "full moon" stories...werewolves, etc.

The past few days, our students have been NUTS!! A call for an administrator to take a kid to the office every 30 minutes or so, 5th graders punching, kindergarteners going bonkers (but that is usual), 2nd graders biting (!!!), just all in all a SUPER INSANE week. I could say it's because of all of the testing...

But it happens every time there is a full moon. Every single time.

Someone explain this to me.

 

[G719]

I don't know why but I do witness it myself. The kindergarten teacher knows when the full moon is. We don't even have to check the calendar.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

It is because of the Moonshine!

 

[donac]

I teach high school and it is the same thing with us. It will start going crazy and someone will check the moon and sure enough it will be full.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Ooh, thank you for bringing that up - now I don't feel so bad! I subbed yesterday for the first time since our April break, and though I'd lost my touch. The behavior was awful.

As to why it happens at the full moon, I don't know. But I've heard enough anecdotal evidence to believe it - from teachers and ER nurses. Apparently, weird accidents go up too.

Anyone have a guess as to why?

 

[PizzieDuster]

My grandmother never called me ~ untill I was pregnant and there was a full moon. "Stay inside! Don't go out! It's a full moon!" My mom says it's an ol wives tale and I wasn't about to mess with Grandma's intuition. Now that I'm much older, I think she was hitting the moonshine

 

[floridaminnie]

If is soooo true! Middle school teacher here!

 

[lorisnuts]

preschool teacher here. Glad to hear I wasn't the only one pulling my hair out this week.

 

[cntrygal]

It's not just schools i had to cover the switchboard yest. due to multiple people out. UGGGHHH!!! And we had someone show up for an appt with a wild animal

 

[Liberty Belle]

I saw it all the time when I was a para and my son's teacher told me he was the only one with good behavior the past couple of days (yay Finn! That's a switch!).

I've heard crimes go up, too, during a full moon.


Well, Scientific American says it's all a bunch of bunk: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lunacy-and-the-full-moon

 

[twinboysmom]

After years of working in the ER, I can say without a doubt that the crazies do come out during the full moon. My personal opinion on this is parasites. They are more active during the full moon cycle.

 

[NaLisa]

I think the full moon heightens all our senses, so you can truly see all the craziness that exists every day. The rest of the time your senses are too dull to notice.

 

[Ilivetogo]

Until I was a teacher, I always laughed at the "full moon" stories...werewolves, etc.

The past few days, our students have been NUTS!! A call for an administrator to take a kid to the office every 30 minutes or so, 5th graders punching, kindergarteners going bonkers (but that is usual), 2nd graders biting (!!!), just all in all a SUPER INSANE week. I could say it's because of all of the testing...

But it happens every time there is a full moon. Every single time.

Someone explain this to me.

I used to work in a hospital and every time there was a full moon, the craziest stuff happened - (coming in to the ER). So weird.

.

 

[tvguy]

Work in a TV newsroom...you will experience the most bizarre viewer calls and hear the strangest calles on the police and fire radios when there is a full moon.

 

[Jennasis]

After years of working in the ER, I can say without a doubt that the crazies do come out during the full moon. My personal opinion on this is parasites. They are more active during the full moon cycle.

You are now the second person I have met who believes in "were-worms". Awesome!





The popular theory has to do with the fact that the human body is comprised of 65+/-% water. The moon effects water/tides. Whether there is any truth to that (or the wereworms) is debatable.

 

[PollyannaMom]

...The popular theory has to do with the fact that the human body is comprised of 65+/-% water. The moon effects water/tides. Whether there is any truth to that (or the wereworms) is debatable.

I've heard the water idea, too. It makes sense to me to a point, but the same mass of the moon is still there all the time, no matter how much sunlight is reflecting off it on a given night, so I wonder if a gravitational effect similar to tides can be that different when it's full?

I don't know, though. There has to be some explanation.

P.S. - I love the term "wereworms". I hope that's not it.

 

[PollyannaMom]

One more. Is it just that it's so bright, nobody sleeps as well? We're all walking around tired, so -

- there are more accidents
- kids in school are more "widgy"
- teachers have less patience for the same old stuff
- callers are just grumpier

etc. ???

 

[NaLisa]

Never occurred to me before, but I just read that the terms "lunacy" and "lunatic" derived from perceived temporary insanity associated with the full moon.

 

[wiigirl]

Never occurred to me before, but I just read that the terms "lunacy" and "lunatic" derived from perceived temporary insanity associated with the full moon.

woah...me neither...

 

[Mandychelle79]

I work on a psych ward... I hate when I have to work full moons.