Ambien Makes me Hallucinate

[stuckathuntermtn]

Diet, exercise, and sleep are the only things I kinda have going for me, so I need to gloat a little.

[Sessiøn]

Everytime my GF takes Ambien I wake up to her jerking me off. I have no problems with Ambien.

[Tunco]

Diet, exercise, and sleep are the only things I kinda have going for me,.....

That, and being an insufferable cunt.

[Dhelihiker]

Diet, exercise, and sleep are the only things I kinda have going for me, so I need to gloat a little.

If I sold Slurpees for a living I would sleep great too.

[hooked]

Everytime my GF takes Ambien I wake up to her jerking me off. I have no problems with Ambien.

Tiger, is that you?

[summit]

I used Ambien once on a trans-atlantic. Then I started using it on work nights where it was necessary to go to sleep at 7PM. It works well for that.

Ambien has a short half-life. There's a reason that the FAA is OK with pilots taking Ambien but not Benadryl/Tylenol PM.

I've seen people react weird to Ambien and other sleep drugs. Do NOT fucking mix them with opiods and/or alcohol. Bad fucking news ensues.

[teletripper]

acids probably better for you

Exactly, if you want to trip acid is the "right thing to do" not that I would know. Boomers work also.

[Wintergreen]

Some funny stuff in this thread. I tried Melatonin first before asking for Zolpidem (Ambien) and liked that it was natural and that I didn't feel drugged, just got a feeling that it was time to go to sleep. But it didn't help me stay asleep and it seriously fucked with my dreams. Like ultra vivid dreams that were way to relevant be ignored. I don't need to be self analyzing dreams in the morning, I just need 6-8 hours of real rest. I don't think some people know what its like to not be able to turn you're brain off at night and just get some quality rest.

[char]

Doc I just visited in had a piece of paper on the wall that said most sleep problems are likely related to life style and that since sleep aids were invented the number of sleep problem diagnosis has shot through the roof.

[AdironRider]

Doc I just visited in had a piece of paper on the wall that said most sleep problems are likely related to life style and that since sleep aids were invented the number of sleep problem diagnosis has shot through the roof.

Quoted for fucking truth. I know two people who take Ambien, both work in my office and are still hitting the coffee hard at like 4pm 'just to make it through'.

Im sorry but 'sleep issues' are one of the biggest first world problems going. You cant go to sleep? Christ, its like you still need to crawl in bed with mom and dad.

I find if Im active Im in bed by like 9, otherwise Im going till 12 or 1. Quit worrying about it, your body does a pretty good job of telling you what it needs.

[belgian]

Im sorry but 'sleep issues' are one of the biggest first world problems going. You cant go to sleep? Christ, its like you still need to crawl in bed with mom and dad.

I find if Im active Im in bed by like 9, otherwise Im going till 12 or 1. Quit worrying about it, your body does a pretty good job of telling you what it needs.

Mostly agree. But then there are the people who do shift work (I will soon be joining that group). Difficult for your body to tell you what it needs when it has no fucking clue what you're doing to it.

[stuckathuntermtn]

That, and being an insufferable cunt.

I'm funnier in person.

If I sold Slurpees for a living I would sleep great too.

I don't even have Slurpees. hahaha.


I've also read (granted it was on Cracked, but they had references) that 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is a product of the industrial age (8 hour workday, streetlights, etc.).
It's okay to wake up in the middle of the night. Grab some toast or something. If you can't fall back asleep, that's a problem. Everyone is different. You know how some people can power-nap in the middle of the day? I can not nap. I can only get my sleep at night. So maybe I'm not that great.

[pointedem]

First time I took Ambien was on a camping trip with my wife. High as K2 from the pill and lying in my sleeping bag, I told her that there was a little boy with a knife standing behind her as she was getting in the tent.

She didn't sleep the whole night. I slept like a champion.

thats some of the funnier shit I've read on TGR in a while.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

My sister almost got fired from her job when she was taking Ambien. She worked in accounting and would make totally obvious mistakes and not even remember processing those transactions when asked about them later. It helped her sleep but fucked with her cognitive abilities during the day.

I have insomnia sometimes, but it never lasts more than a couple nights. A couple nights of getting less than 4-5 hours of sleep and I'm a total zombie and will fall asleep easily on the 3rd night. When I've worked night shifts it never takes me more than a week to get used to it.

I cannot sleep if I'm stoned. There's something about weed that gets my brain churning and it just won't turn off no matter how tired I am. If I smoke 3-4 hours before bed time then I'll sleep like a baby but getting high right at bedtime is a recipe for staying awake for the next few hours.

A benadryl washed down with a beer will knock me right the fuck out.

[hutash]

I love how the people who never have sleep problems always say if you just eat right ant exerciser you won't have problems, or that if you use sleep aids you're a druggie. Some of us have had sleep problems for years (30+ years in my case), and while I agree, diet, exercise, stress reduction, et al, is important, it often doesn't do fuck all for sleep problems in many cases. I have done all of the above in various combinations and still don't sleep worth shit. Ambien is great for those who need it, just like antibiotics are great for those with an infection. Neither are appropriate for those who don't really need them. Just taking a pill is not the answer to most people's sleep issues, but it can be a great, effective part of a treatment plan.