Meryl Horne

It's not the exact same protein that the birds have, but we actually do have a little evidence that our cryptochrome can sense the magnetic fields, too.

And so maybe that's how the moon's affecting us.

Because like, okay, what we would be looking for if, you know, the Earth's magnetic field is the missing link.

Maybe it should have a similar kind of wave pattern like that sinusoidal curve that we saw in Horacio's sleep data.

And then I stumbled on this graph where I was like...

Whoa.

All right.

Let me show this to you.

So scroll down in the search.

Yeah, this is the change in magnetic fields over a lunar cycle.

So the line in the middle is the full moon.

The magnetic field is apparently lower in the days leading up to a full moon, just like Horacio saw.

And then it gets like higher after the full moon.

But I don't know if I've gone off the deep end.

Like this paper is from like the 1960s.

Yeah, it's hand-drawn.

No, like nobody's actually like connected all the dots here to find out, okay, can we really sense the magnetic fields at all?

And can that mess with their sleep?

When Kristen was explaining this to me, there was lots of like hand waving going on and like emphasis that it's like all kind of just theoretical.

So it's really unclear still.