A University of Basel study found that around the full moon, participants took longer to fall asleep, slept less deeply and produced less evening melatonin — even inside a darkened laboratory where they could neither see the Moon nor know its phase

A University of Basel study found that around the full moon, participants took longer to fall asleep, slept less deeply and produced less evening melatonin — even inside a darkened laboratory where they could neither see the Moon nor know its phase

body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} The full moon has been blamed for sleeplessness for centuries, usually with more folklore than evidence behind it. But one laboratory study from the University of Basel made the old claim harder to dismiss outright. In a controlled sleep experiment, participants around the full moon took longer to fall asleep, had less deep sleep and showed lower evenin…