Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s difficult to know how common sleepwalking is. In 2016, Helen Stallman and Mark Kohler conducted a systematic review of ...

This weekend, comedian Mike Birbiglia‘s feature-film debut, Sleepwalk With Me, opens in theaters. Rolling Stone interviewed Birbiglia at his home in Brooklyn about the film, blending drama with comedy ...

Our brains work hard to help us move, talk and think. They also help us sleep. When we rest, some parts of our brain are active. When we are up and moving around, parts of our brain are actually at ...

Adult sleepwalkers are more common than previously realized, with upward of 8 million American adults prone to nighttime ambulation, a new study finds. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The film is from comedian Mike Birbiglia, who based it on his on his one-man play. By Daniel Miller NEXT IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Sleepwalk With Me, the Sundance Film Festival ...

In a new study, published in the May 15 issue of the journal, Neurology, researchers found about 3.6 percent of U.S. adults - about 8.4 million people - sleepwalk each year. What's more, almost 30 ...

"Sleepwalk With Me" began life in, well, in the real-life sleepwalking episodes of comedian Mike Birbiglia. It's seen life as a one-man theater production, a radio story on "This American Life," a ...

REM behavior disorder has been very mean to Mike Birbiglia. This violent form of sleepwalking, in which the sufferer acts out his dreams, once compelled Birbiglia to climb a chest of drawers and leap ...

So how does a quirky story of an aspiring comedian with a sleepwalking disorder become a breakout indie film? The answer for "Sleepwalk With Me" was a smart — and cheap — promotional campaign that ...

When comedian Mike Birbiglia opened his one-man show Sleepwalk With Me in 2008 at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York, he didn't anticipate that it would become material for a popular piece on ...

It’s a pretty common dream: Let’s make a movie. Every kid who grew up with a video camera had it, even if it ranked in likelihood alongside becoming a “major league baseball player” and “astronaut” as ...