Anil Sharma called News 3 and claimed that he didn't want anyone else to go through what he went through.<p /><ibs_related> <A HREF="/cf/video/video.cfm?ID=437488&#38;owner=c3k"><IMG SRC="http://images.ibsys.com/2000/0804/41205.gif" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="45" ALT="I-Team" BORDER="0"></A> <IMG SRC="http://images.ibsys.com/2000/0628/28172.gif" WIDTH="22" HEIGHT="12" BORDER="0" ALT="Video"> <A HREF="/cf/video/video.cfm?ID=437488&#38;owner=c3k"> Linda Eggert's I-Team Report</a> </ibs_related>He reported a mysterious incident he says he can't forget or remember.<p />"What happened to me shouldn't have to happen to other people," Sharma said. "Ya know I could have killed ten people or killed myself."<p />This is a story about driving and sleeping that may be hard to swallow.<p />"A lot of people say sleep walking, I think this is sleep driving," Sharma said.<p />Anil Sharma and his wife Pratima said they are still shaken by the night of Nov. 27.<p />At 8:30 p.m., Sharma checked into Meriter Hospital's Sleep Disorders Clinic to see if he had a sleep disorder.<p />He was wired up and watching the Packers on Monday Night Football.<p />Ahead of time, Sharma's sleep doctor, the lab director, prescribed a sleeping pill for his study called Triazolam, better known as Halcion.<p />Sharma said he was told to take up to two pills, an hour apart, before going to sleep, so he did.<p />Sharma said the next thing he knew, he was in his own bed with absolutely no memory of how he got there, or when he left the clinic.<p />"Somebody turned the light on and pulled the curtain that's all I remember," he said.<p />Sharma's wife, Partima, said he got home shortly after 7 a.m.<p />"And then I looked at him and he was very confused and he was wobbling as he took out his wallet and put it on the table and his speech was slurred," she said.<p />Sharma fell asleep at home and mumbled that he knocked the mirror off his son's car in the driveway.<p />When his wife went to look, she also found her husband's car lopsided, backwards in the garage and damaged.<p />She couldn't find the right front tire because it was completely off the rim that was exposed and bent. A second back tire was flat.<p />Later, mechanics also replaced a bent support frame.<p />In all, the damage totals $2,000.<p />"I dunno. It's over with, he's alive, he's fine. But it's still like every time I think about it I have to take a deep breath, You know, oh my god, how could this have happened they just should not let people leave like that," Pratima said.<p />"You literally think you could have hit somebody and not known it?" Sharma asked. "Definitely. Because you know, I don't even know how I got home," he said.<p />The Sharmas filed a police report, looking for hit and runs.<p />An officer told News 3 that Sharma was "obviously very anxious as to whether he struck anything, or anyone."<p />"I mean if someone had warned me I would have never driven," Sharma said.<p />He blamed his ordeal on the drug he took, and the clinic workers who let him go.<p />The clinic director, Sharma's sleep doctor, declined to go on camera.<p />A spokesman for her said a process to evaluate all patients was followed, and, that had there been any question about Sharma's ability to drive, he would not have been allowed to leave.<p />Jon Sender said that maybe Sharma was sleep-deprived even though the evaluation didn't detect that or any lingering effect from the drug.<p />Halcion, an FDA approved drug, was once the most popular sleeping pill in the world. But it lost its luster years ago, amid growing concern over possible side effects including hallucinations, anxiety and temporary amnesia, or memory loss.<p />Several countries banned Halcion. Various crimes have been blamed on it.<p />One person even had her murder charge dismissed.<p />Could the drug Halcion have affected Sharma the driver?<p />Sender said that he didn't think so but said that the hospital will pay for Sharma's car damage anyway, adding it was just trying to be a "good citizen."<p />Sharma's sleep doctor called him personally.<p />"The decision whether to do this is not mine, but I think from talking to the people in the business office, I think we'll probably be able to work out a reimbursement for you," she said in a phone message.<p />"You have no motive to make up this story, there's no reason for me to," Sharma said. "I'll be happy if I saved a person's life."<p />Sharma said that the moral of the story was don't drive yourself home after a sleep study.<p />Spokesman Jon Sender said there is no story. He claims that Sharma had a unique experience that's never happened before.<p />Questions remain over why Sharma got Halcion at all.<p />At Meriter's clinic, Sender said that was not unusual for some patients to be given sleep aids, including Halcion, to help them sleep, so they can be evaluated.<p />News 3's Linda Eggert talked to national and local sleep disorder experts who said it was unusual.<p />They said it's not normal practice for patients to get any kind of drug because it would defeat the purpose of evaluating a person's natural sleep pattern.