Mike Birbiglia talks about the sleepwalking that nearly killed him. (13 minutes)
This story is an excerpt of Mike's one-man show, "Sleepwalk with Me," which also became feature film, produced and co-written by Ira Glass. Mike's story was recorded at The Moth.
The poem Ira reads is called "The Scratch," it's in Raymond Carver's collection All Of Us.