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Lynda Lemay and insomnia: it is a disease that is installed in the head

Publication date 22/04/2006 From €100.00

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On the set of the program "Tea or coffee", the singer Lynda LEMAY speaks to Catherine CEYLAC about the periods of insomnia that she has known: "when we sleep two hours a night... for months or years it looks like a nervous depression". It’s a disease that’s in your head: you’re afraid you won’t sleep and you think about the consequences for the next day. We end up feeling a burden to the people around us".

Alex Métayer: I decided to take insomnia as something borderline pleasant

Publication date 24/05/2000 From €100.00

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The actor Alex METAYER explains to Michel FIELD how he went from anxious insomniac to an acceptance of this phenomenon. He thinks that there is a form of conditioning on what sleep is and as soon as one is "out of the norm" one is pointed at, from childhood. He believes that in many cases "it is much more an idea of sleep, I am not in the norm, than a sickly state".

Eric Emmanuel Schmitt: I have been an insomniac since the age of eight

Publication date 02/11/1999 From €100.00

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The writer Eric Emmanuel SCHMITT explains that he has been an insomniac since the age of eight, following the death of his grandfather in his sleep. His parents had an unfortunate sentence: "your grandfather fell asleep forever". He does not accept sleep at night, he only accepts it for writing: he has micro-sleep when he writes and therefore has a "work bed" in his office. It has several beds: a bed to sleep and make love, a bed of work and a bed of insomnia.

Didier Barbelivien: I became insomniac when I was in high school

Publication date 06/03/1997 From €100.00

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Interviewed by Valérie EXPERT the songwriter and performer Didier BARBELIVIEN evokes his insomnia that appeared in his youth because he went out a lot. Since then he’s been using the night to write.

Jorge Luis Borges: his insomnia inspired the new Funes el memorioso

Publication date 27/03/1979 From €100.00

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The poet and writer Jorge Luis BORGES, interviewed at home by Jean d'ORMESSON, talks about the insomnia he had in the past, the reasons he attributed to them. These insomnia inspired the new "Funes el memorioso" ("Funes ou la mémoire").

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