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This is a good question....
There have been some studies done in the journal Cell Biology suggests that people tend to get lower quality sleep around the time of full moons, snoozing an average of 20 minutes less than they do during a new moon.
The study
The study included 33 healthy volunteers, between ages 20 and 74. Participants slept under strictly controlled conditions in a laboratory with no windows, so they had no way of seeing the moon. They stayed in the laboratory for 3½ days. Humidity and temperature were controlled.
Neither the participants nor the researchers knew, at the time of the experiment, that the phase of the moon would become part of the study. This decision reduced any bias that either group may have introduced regarding the moon – but also presented the drawback that the study didn't look at all phases of the moon's cycle.
The data come from an experiment done 10 years ago; Cajochen and colleagues didn't analyze the results in terms of lunar patterns until several years after they did the study and waited to publish until now.
The results
The full moon was associated with a 20-minute reduction of total sleep time, the study authors found.
If you want to find out more about the results please visit (information also cited from):
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/26/full-moon-may-disrupt-sleep-study-says/?hpt=hp_t2