We don't know why the moon affects our sleep

John talks about the phases of the moon and of the studies that have been done about the moon's effect on our sleep cycles. Please subscribe if you enjoy.
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Thanks for another interesting discussion! A fact that I have always found interesting relates to the period after the full moon. Each day after the full moon, the moon rises about an hour later (actually the amount of time of moonrise is later by a variable amount in that period of days). This means that the early evening is completely dark for an hour or more, and then the moon rises. This influences animal behavior: I have heard that predators like lions in Africa, with good night vision, will use the time of total darkness in the early evening to hunt and kill their prey. (And statistically it is reported that this is the time most likely for humans to be attacked by these animals.) If the lions are hunting for food, this allows these predators to kill their prey in the darkness when they have an advantage, and then utilize the light of the late rising moon to drag their prey back to their den.