Meryl Horne

And then you start sleeping more and more and more.

And then the full moon happens and you keep sleeping more and more.

And it kind of goes like up and down, up and down in this like wave pattern.

And Horacio saw this across all his data.

It's a beautiful sinusoidal pattern.

So, yeah, it really doesn't feel like you could, like, create that pattern of sleep even if you tried, right?

It's not like people partake a little bit more.

Yeah.

And if the moon affects our sleep, then that kind of opens the door to it maybe affecting us in other ways, too, because we know that sleep can affect our mood and our mental health.

And in fact, like, there are actually studies on bipolar disorder that

specifically this thing called rapid cycling bipolar disorder.

And what the researchers are seeing there is that these patients seem to like be switching between mania and depression in a timing that kind of lines up with the cycles of the moon.

And those researchers also think this could be related to sleep.

Like, maybe if you're losing sleep around the full moon, it might kind of trigger a manic state.

What?

And so now Horacio and some other scientists believe that, like, yeah, it does seem like the moon is doing something strange here.

That it's, like, somehow changing our bodies and our brains and...

affecting our sleep and it's not just about how bright it is or partying more or whatever it's like there's something else what though how is it doing it well exactly right that's what we'll look at after the break

Well, I mean, this is where things get exciting, right?

Because now we have this thing that the moon is doing to us and we just need to figure out how.