The article deals with the contemporary scenario in which the ubiquitous use of electronictechnologies in the processes of mediation leads to new forms of sociability and cognition.Considering the relationship between mimesis and body and between mimesis and sociability(Ch. Wulf), the text reflects on how human adhesion to sedation practices proposed byelectronic means of communication (N. Baitello Jr.) and by media technologies of distraction(N. Carr) generates what may be designated hypnogenic consciousness.