Doraemon Exploration World: The Mysteries of Sleep and Dreams

Read this book and "Aim to be a sleep genius!"

Doraemon's sleeping place is inside the closet! Nobita is said to be a "sleeping genius" who can fall asleep in just 0.93 seconds. This is a children's book that allows you to learn about "sleep science" while reading the "Doraemon" manga, which features secret gadgets related to sleep and dreams.

Good sleep is good for your body, brain, and mind!

This book provides a scientific explanation of how the body and brain work while sleeping, and conveys how important sleep is for children who are still growing. Particularly important is what Nishino calls the "golden 90 minutes," the time at the beginning of sleep. Sleeping deeply and soundly here promotes bone and muscle growth and boosts the immune system. Information is organized in the brain, important memories are firmly established, and unpleasant memories are washed away. Nobita, the "sleeping genius," may be able to attribute his cheerfulness and quick recovery to the fact that he gets good quality sleep.

Book Overview

We cover a wide range of topics, including simple questions about sleep and dreams, fortune telling, and even artificial hibernation in the near future!
・Surprising! Comparing how animals sleep
・The mysteries of the body clock
-What are REM and non-REM sleep?
・Growth hormone and the autonomic nervous system
-What causes sleep disorders, snoring, bedwetting, and nightmares?
・Sleeping stories of great people and celebrities
・Dream fortune telling
・Dream legends of the world
・What are hibernation and summer hibernation? …etc

"Doraemon" manga includes 12 volumes

"Nobita the Sleeping Genius," "Let the Intruder Sleep!", "The Sandman on a Sleepless Night," "Dekisugi's Good Sleep Plan," "Dream Channel," etc. It also includes "I'm the King of the Night World!", a work not yet published in Tentomushi Comics.

Comment from supervisor Seiji Nishino

I don't know of any comic that has been loved by children all over the world for as long as "Doraemon". I've known for a long time that Nobita was a terrible sleeper, and that for some reason Doraemon woke up in the closet. More than that, I think there were many stories that dealt with dreams and sleep. With this background in mind, I am very happy and honored to be able to supervise "Doraemon Exploration World: The Mysteries of Sleep and Dreams".
I moved to the United States in 1987 to conduct sleep research. There are now many sleep researchers conducting sleep research day and night all over the world, but until REM sleep was discovered 70 years ago in the 1950s, sleep was not an attractive field of research. This was because sleep was thought to have no important role other than to relieve drowsiness and fatigue. However, with the discovery of REM sleep, it was discovered that people often dream during REM sleep, and that memories are organized and consolidated during this period, and many researchers began to take an interest in sleep.
As I have emphasized many times in this article, sleep, especially for children, is related to brain development and is known to be more important than sleep for adults. Public interest in sleep has been increasing in recent years, but the amount of sleep that Japanese people, in particular, get is getting shorter every year, and both adults and children are getting about an hour less than they were 70 years ago when REM sleep was discovered. The main reason for this is that people are becoming nocturnal and going to bed later and later.
The nocturnal lifestyle is influenced by our sleepless 24-hour society, and the COVID-19 pandemic has also led to a trend of people going to bed even later. The same is true for children's sleep, and inadequate sleep can lead to reduced learning ability, poor health, and even school absenteeism. It is clear that if this issue is not addressed early, it will have a significant impact on their future.
This book attempts to improve children's sleep with the help of Doraemon.
Sleep medicine has a short history, and not everything has been elucidated yet. It is like the final black box, and there is still much that we do not know. In this situation, as a sleep researcher, I have supervised this project with the hope of providing as accurate information as possible and helping families to reaffirm the importance of sleep together. I hope that this book will be of some help in the healthy physical and mental development of children who will be the leaders of the future.