Advanced Fatigue Management: Going Beyond The Gates of Micro Sleeps

Advanced Fatigue Management is a book about how to preset your mind so you can gain better control over the very human business of sleep.

This book takes a particular focus on teaching this skill to drivers, for whom a strong handle on sleeping and waking is critical. Advanced Fatigue Management instructs people on how to deal with the phenomenon of falling asleep while driving such that the driver does not panic and swerve off the road. The trick? To learn how to jump from hypnagogic states right to and past the hypnopompic states-in other words, from awake to asleep and back again, fast.

A professional Class-1 truck driver for over a decade, Stephen Monk has long been fascinated with sleep and humans' ability to manage it. More than that, he has personally experienced hypnagogic dreams for more than four decades and has experienced altered REM cycle timing. He's studied how the mind works and has received a diploma in hypnotherapy and continues to study the mind from multiple disciplines. All of this informs Advanced Fatigue Management, with the hope of empowering others to improve their control over their sleep management