ABSTRACT
In this final chapter we take a further look at the fate of sleep in the current era, with particular reference to debates concerning the medicalisation/healthicisation of sleep and the ‘colonisation’ of sleep through a variety of ‘dormant expertise’. In doing so we also consider, toward the end of the chapter, the intersections between these trends and developments and other, more general, processes of commercialisation/commodification surrounding sleep in late or postmodernity. This, in turn, provides the basis for some further sociological reflections, in a more speculative vein, on what, for want of a better phrase, might be termed the ‘sleepicisation’ of society.
