Did anyone else notice the missing time phenomenon happens more often during certain moon phases?

Been tracking this for about three years now using a combination of my own field notes and cross-referencing community reports. The correlation with waning gibbous phases keeps coming up more than I'd expect from random distribution, and I can't just hand-wave that away.

What bugs me is nobody's proposed a decent mechanism for it. Gravitational influence on whatever process causes the missing time episodes? Seems weak. But the data pattern is too consistent to ignore.

I've had two personal experiences that I logged with timestamps and both fell within 48 hours of a waning gibbous. Small sample obviously but it got me paying attention.

Anyone keeping proper records? Not just "I think it happened around a full moon" but actual documented cases with dates you can verify against a lunar calendar. That's the only way this conversation moves beyond anecdote. Would genuinely like to compile something more rigorous if theres enough people here with solid documentation.

@MarcyFenton49 that's genuinely interesting - do you have a sense of whether its the waning gibbous specifically or just higher lunar illumination in general? I ask because I've been wondering if the moon's brightness at those times affects visibility or maybe peoples alertness when they're out, which could skew the self-reporting side of things rather than the phenomenon itself. But three years of tracking is serious work and I don't want to just dismiss the pattern you're seeing. Have you looked at whether the time of night matters too, like are these reports clustering around the same hours as well as the same phase?

@MarcyFenton49 this is fascinating stuff. I've been casually logging anomalous experiences for years and never thought to cross-reference with lunar cycles but now I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

One thing worth considering - the waning gibbous produces a lot of light in the early part of the night which might simply mean more people are out and about, so you're getting more reports just from increased witness numbers rather than increased activity. Hard to rule that out without normalising for it somehow.

That said I do remember reading accounts from a researcher in the 90s who specifically flagged waning phases as significant in terms of electromagnetic sensitivity. The theory was something to do with tidal forces on the brain's fluid. Probably sounds daft but the missing time literature is full of stranger ideas that turned out to have legs.