Writer's Block: Full Moon Fever

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd] I think it could make some scientific sense for our behavior to be affected  - the pull of the moon and all that. On the other hand,  I really don't think it makes people insane, or turn into werewolves - some of that is probably psychological. But it does seem that you hear of things happening on Full Moons. So I'm not sure.

Do any of you have thoughts on this?

Comments

[stubefied-by-gd.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I think you did not realize that me calling something more reasonable to believe in than astrology is like me calling something more reasonable to believe in than palm reading. Or voodoo. Or talking horses.

That said, your argument against has a number of faults. I started typing them out, but, as I don't actually have passionate beliefs about the moon either way, I'm not going to get into it.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough - none of that was particularly directed at you, I just tend to overreact when I see people making accepting noises about stuff on the basis of science when the actual science backs up said stuff in no way whatsoever. (I would be prepared to accept behavioural changes on the basis of light levels, say, because that's a direct, measurable effect with several possible mechanisms; it's just the gravity stuff that makes me go gah.)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

...aaaand that was me, for I am unobservant, and on a different computer.