Ambien first-time safe dosage?

[Morphling]

Ambien is really tricky shit. Sometimes it works for sleep, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it makes you hallucinate. I took ambien one night, and apparently decided to do a cigarette run in the car(gas station was only three blocks away, mind you), and ended up being arrested and charged with DUI. All they found in my system was carisopridol metabolites, but that was enough that I still had to plea bargain it to a lesser charge. IMO Ambien sucks ass, I'd find a better drug to get high on, and no doubt.

 

[xbloodwhipx]

Awhile back i snorted like 10 or 15 milligrams. People said i would see the walls breathing, feel out of it. I didnt feel anything at first, then i woke up like 30 minutes later from blacking out watching tv and felt super euphoric. anyway, 10-15 was a good dose for me (it was probably 10).

 

[Justamith2]

20mg makes me trip. Last time I thought I went into some town inside the pixels on my tv ^.^
But anyway, 10 mg works for my friends, but 15mg would work for recreational purposes. Make sure u are not in a dangerous place, because it make sleep way easier, and also makes u incredibly unbalanced. Remember not to mix with benzodiazepines or other sleep inducing/insolmnolance occurring drugs. It starts in TEN TO TWENTY MINUTES, so remember not to be doing anything at the time.

 

[stardust.hero]

If you are using it as directed 5mg to start should do it. I was scripted 10mgs/night and did 10mgs the first night and it was a little weird falling asleep and I did have a strong groggy feeling the next day. That lasted a few days until I got accustomed to the drug. It doesn't make you tired, you will need to close your eyes and shut off the tv/lights/whatever for the drug to do it's job.

As for recreational? I'm not really sure what kind of recreational affects you can obtain from ambien other than buying alpacas online or making weird pies consisting of vegetables and pecans without recollection.

 

[Crashing]

I fail to see the recreation in substances that cause undoubtable amnesia. I guess the 'high' comes from knowing that you'll be on a drug, and then knowing afterwards that you were on a drug. But if you can't remember it, what does it matter if it even happened?

 

[stardust.hero]

But if you can't remember it, what does it matter if it even happened?

Oh you'll realize something happened.. The half eaten vegetable/nut pies will still be on the counter. Don't you worry about that part.

As for remembering... Nah.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

OP - I would not suggest you take 15-20mg like some of the posters say is a good recreational dose for them. I think your original idea of 5-10mg was sound. I would like to reiterate what I said about it affecting different people very differently. It also can affect the same person differently on separate occasions. And if someone has a tolerance to it or a tolerance to other GABAergic drugs that is going to affect the dose they can take as well, which could account for some of the high doses you may hear of people taking.

Anyway, as many people have said, it tends to be a very memory-erasing drug and can make you do crazy stuff while on it (texting your exes naked photos of yourself, buying shit on eBay) even if you've taken precautions to keep yourself from doing anything too dangerous, and people also often unintentionally redose or use other drugs while on it, so I wouldn't recommend using it recreationally.

I think this question has been fully answered and I don't see the value in people being like "I take 20mg" etc so I'm going to close this. Please PM me if you have any questions