A bad night’s sleep can seriously affect your health. To remedy this without medicine, the psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine and illustrator Muzo have joined forces to create a healthy comic strip. Combining neurosciences and incisive humour, the book offers natural solutions and real advice to help get back to restorative sleep. This accessible, light-hearted guide helps look after your body clock with a smile. The graphic novel Docteur, j'ai mal à mon sommeil ! (in French), illustrated by Muzo and written by the psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine, was published by Éditions Odile Jacob in March 2026. Sleep Comics can finally help you switch off
The power of dreams When your brain orchestrates your emotions
W hy do we dream? In his book (Ed. Favre, 2025, in French), Dr Lampros Perogamvros, a psychiatrist at Geneva’s HUG hospital and UNIGE, reveals that our dreams are true “cognitive” masterpieces in their own right. Where neuroscience, art and philosophy intersect, he compares dreaming to a piece of theatre in which our mind accepts things that are irrational to better process things that are real. Dr Perogamvros makes a distinction between “bad dreams” and “nightmares.” The former, although unpleasant, are useful; they regulate our emotions and bring about fear. Nightmares, on the other hand, occur when a terror threshold is crossed. This emotional outpouring interrupts sleep and loses its protective function, becoming a source of anxiety. This crucial discovery allows researchers to envisage new dream therapies to treat trauma. This fascinating journey between science and psychology promises to turn our dreams into allies in the fight against anxiety.
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