Seriously though, it sounds ridiculous. Who's going to pay for someone to sleep? My knee-jerk reaction is this is impossible because sleeping doesn't generate value. However, when you think about it, sleep does generate value, as lack of sleep lowers productivity.

In fact, it would be in the interest of payers of healthcare be them insurance companies, governments, or employers, to reward people for sleeping. If sleep quality could be measured cheaply, reliably and unobtrusively while using some sort of signal processing to reliably identify the individual sleeping, then rewarding people for getting enough quality sleep could make sense.