Full Moon causing bad sleep proven

It has long been known that many people have poor sleep and find it difficult to fall asleep around the full moon. Scientists for the first time report strong evidence that the lunar cycle seems to influence human sleep, even when we do not 'see' the moon and are not aware of the actual moon phase. While they monitored the sleep of 33 volunteers it turned out that around the full moon brain activity related to deep sleep drops by 30 percent, it takes on average five minutes longer to fall asleep, and the length of overall sleep time is twenty minutes shorter.

Although the correlation between moon phases and sleep can be measured, the underlying causes are yet to be discovered. This research will likely encourage scientists too look for a circalunar clock in the human brain. Given that we have a circadian clock defined by the Sun, maybe a circalunar one as well, is it possible that the rhythm of other nearby celestial objects can also have an influence on us? If it is so scientists will have to reconsider the theorems of an old pseudoscience - astrology. One of the tasks of astrologers in ancient times was to find connections between the movement of planets (including the Sun and the Moon) and the behavior of people. Scientists working on this research seem to do the same job but with modern empirical methodology. Maybe in the future modern science will be able to merge ancient and contemporary wisdom and ascertain the truths lying in old pseudoscientific schools little by little.