Quickly, Becker arrives at the Department of Sleep and meets up with his Briefer Simly Frye and they are given aware of the situation.

However, with a Glitch not allowing anyone to get any sleep, a Ripple Effect could occur which would cause mass destruction to The World.

Becker, Simly and fellow Fixer Casey Lake finally find and trap the Glitch in the Master Bedroom.

After fixing up whatever destruction the Glitch caused in the Master Bedroom, everyone hopes that the Good Night Sleeps have been sent on time.

However, the team might have been too late, with a warning that the Chain of Events are dissembling and the Ripple Effect about to commence in thirty seconds.

In the epilogue a few Fixers have gathered together and are celebrating the successful Fix of the Glitch when Casey arrives with bad news.

Although this alone is not to panic, if the Frozen moments are combined with Fertilizer from the Department of Nature and a Second, a Time Bomb could be made.

The Bed Bugs can show how suffering is still necessary just like how the Nightmare like qualities of the dream needed a scary moment before jumping into the happy parts.

It also praised how "the authors use the conceit to the fullest, creating a complex and intricate world with a sometimes daunting array of gadgets, bureaucracy, vocabulary and capitalization (a glossary is included—and welcome)" yet at the same time "these details don't become overwhelming, fortunately, thanks to the book's consistently lighthearted tone".

[6]Booklist praised the audiobook version read by Oliver Wyman, saying his performance "brings humor, excitement, and an occasional satirical twist to scenes involving the fascinating alternative universe".

[7] The New York Times commented how the book can be read just for fun or could also be "mulled over for its implied questions about big philosophical issues".

[8] A reviewer from School Library Journal wrote "This is a rollicking tale" and praised the characters while comparing it to Garth Nix's"The Keys to the Kingdom" series and also writing "this story is upbeat and full of humor, seeming to draw a novel from David Wiesner's Sector 7"[9] The Glitch in Sleep was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, a Vermont children’s choice award.

Levy stated he wanted to produce the movie since "This is such a visually original and fresh world, where memory, weather, sleep and things like that are created.I've been working with Fox to find the next major all-audience franchise, and we feel that if we nail the screenplay, this has the potential to fit that bill, with the same humor, family friendliness, and lack of condescension.