What was your greatest Ambien adventure (that you can remember)? - The weirdest trip you've taken.

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

By now we're all at least partially aware of the odd side effects of the sleep aid/prescription drug known as Ambien (Zoldpidem).

Have you ever used this drug, and what were its effect on you?

I discovered its side effects completely by accident, but got quite partial to it. The secret is to fight the first wave of sleepiness off as long as you can. Then the fun starts.

First, I notice that my thinking is getting fuzzy (and so does anybody around me). I had an ex that could tell on the phone when I was starting to trip and would yell at me about it. It was pretty funny. This is stage one. Things are funny for no real reason, or at least disproportionately so. Vision isn't blurry per se, but off.

Next I tend to start farting for no apparent reason. Then I get hungry and will start with the munchies. Then I'll get a wild rush of energy and a burning need to be active. All of the above I would classify as stage two.

It's around this point that I'll reach stage three. Stage three is where I tend to forget everything that happens. All I know about what happens during stage 3 are the clues or consequences. I've done everything from writing myself a haiku poem, joining a hookup site, contacting an ex and other...things. nothing ever illegal, just embarrassing.

When you wake up the next morning you get to play detective, and hope you didn't do anything too stupid. Maybe this doesn't sound fun to most of you, but it IS a bit of an adventute.


Also, I am currently between stages one and two. So forgive any strange phrasing or grammatical errors.

Anyway, what about the rest of you? Any good stories?

 

[Autismo Pinochet]

Stop doin drugs kid, they hurt.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Almost forgot to post a story. Came home after gym and was hungry. Decided to make some soup
Plan to take soup up stairs with me to my room. Thought it would be a good idea take my sleep aid early so it'll DEFINITELY be working by the time I'm in bed. (Ambien kind of makes you dizzy)

Finish making soup and it's piping hot. Start walking upstairs to my room and manage to spill 80% of the soup on my arm. OH SHIT!!! I clean up the spill, get up to my room and feel a weird tingling on my arm where I spilled the soup. Didn't seem like a big deal, so I just went to bed.

Wake up next morning to a HUGE blister covering 1/3 of my forearm...and pop it. I apparently had a 2nd degree burn on my arm. I never iced it. Had to go to the doctors to get it cleaned and a prescription for sulfur sulvidine. That fucked scared up and made my arm look goofy for like 2 years.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Stop doin drugs kid, they hurt.

Was (and still do) use them for their intended purpose. Only abuses them once in a while. I love those PSAs though, thanks.

 

[The Manglement]

I knew a guy who took Ambien. I got a call at 2 in the morning. He was crying because he wanted to go to sleep, but he couldn't turn his computer off, because if he did, the woman living in his computer would die. She was apparently beautiful, but had things moving under her skin that he couldn't see but knew were there.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I took it for Insomnia for about a week. The worst that happened was I told a friend to kiss my ass when they took my keys, then walked out to my car and sat in it for a bit. I remember looking out the window and seeing a bald white dude, huge with a black leather jacket and a knife staring at me and leaning against the window. I freaked and called my friend to come and save me. She ran out with an air pistol, but there was no one out there. And she would have seen someone if there actually had been someone out there. I still remember vividly how he looked, too. It was so real!

Another time, I woke up in the morning and found the kitchen in an absolute mess. I had tried to make a bowl of cereal but used cat food and powdered non dairy creamer. I foumd a tritip defrosting in my dryer, and a glass of buttermilk in the microwave.

After that, I stopped taking it completely. Rather not sleep then have that shit going on.

 

[Broken Pussy]

I decided to go to the library to get some books and then accidentally hopped the curb in the library parking lot and drove through the grass, all the way through to the adjoining street. I went inside and apologized to one of the librarians, who said it was fine if I hadn’t damaged anything, and then went to go look at books.

I also once left a tea kettle on for so long that the paint melted off of it and ran down into the eye on the stove. Now we only use electric tea kettles.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I guess starting this thread now counts as an Ambien story. I only kind of remember doing it.

 

[Thelostcup]

My friend went on it for a while and told me that he was having such vivid horrifying dreams of being ripped apart and reassembled by invisible demons that he had to check himself into a mental health clinic.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

My friend went on it for a while and told me that he was having such vivid horrifying dreams of being ripped apart and reassembled by invisible demons that he had to check himself into a mental health clinic.

I guess I'm lucky to have such mild/benevolent adverse reactions to it. I've heard similar horror stories from people I've talked to about it.

 

[Red Sun]

Once, I took an Ambien and overslept for my morning classes. It was pretty crazy.

 

[OhGoy]

>tfw people have had way more intense trips on prescription medicine than i've had on lsd

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yeah man, prescription medications are no joke.
I've never tried LSD, but I can only imagine my reaction to it.

 

[MrTroll]

die druggies

 

[timecop]

zquil will give you freaky dreams

 

[UW 411]

If you can get through the almost impossibly strong and quick-hitting near narcoleptic effects of high doses of Quetiapine (Seroquel) it'll blow Ambien out of the water. It's tough not to pass out in the fridge or your own drool within ten minutes of taking it, but if you do pull it off...

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I use ambien but typically just take 5 mg. If I take 10 mg, I trip balls but usually fall asleep before anything weird happens. The weirdest that happened was a night that I couldn't sleep after taking 5 mg, so I popped another 5 mg tablet. I was on my balcony looking at the sky when it kicked in. The sky started merging together and going in circles. I got the fuck off the balcony and went to bed.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Drug abusing aside, it's one of the better sleep aids I've been on. I wake up refreshed and not groggy.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I talked about this in another thread, but the one time I took Ambien, I woke up with a box full of uncooked macaroni in a pot on the stove, and an Amazon order of about $1,000 worth of DVDs. Don't remember any of it. Luckily the stove wasn't on, and the DVD order wasn't yet charged or shipped. I immediately threw out the rest of the prescription.

On a somewhat related note, I've taken twice the recommended dosage of Zzzquil every night for the last six years. It doesn't do jack shit anymore, but I'm honestly afraid of withdrawal symptoms, plus the ritual has a way of subconsciously telling me it's time to go to sleep. I'm sure that I'm doing some real fucked up shit to my body that is going to catch up to me one of these days, but fuck it. Every night I tell myself "I should really stop doing this," but it never happens. I used to hoard the empty bottles too, ashamed to throw them out. I think the most I ever amassed in my bedside table drawer was twenty, which was like two months worth.

I used to mix that shit with high doses of melatonin, which was some real shit. One night I had this terrible panic attack, and that was the end of screwing around with that.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I talked about this in another thread, but the one time I took Ambien, I woke up with a box full of uncooked macaroni in a pot on the stove, and an Amazon order of about $1,000 worth of DVDs. Don't remember any of it. Luckily the stove wasn't on, and the DVD order wasn't yet charged or shipped. I immediately threw out the rest of the prescription.

On a somewhat related note, I've taken twice the recommended dosage of Zzzquil every night for the last six years. It doesn't do jack shit anymore, but I'm honestly afraid of withdrawal symptoms, plus the ritual has a way of subconsciously telling me it's time to go to sleep. I sure that I'm doing some real fucked up shit to my body that is going to catch up to me one of these days, but fuck it.

I use to mix that shit with high doses of melatonin, which was some real shit. One night I had this terrible panic attack, and that was the end of screwing around with that.

Unisom works for me, but you also can build up a dependence to it