Ambien made me do all kinds of stupid shit. Had full blown 3 hour conversations with people that I have no recollection of, I crawled down the middle of my street on my hands and knees in the snow wearing hardly anything, ordered stupid shit online, made crappy food that tasted horrible, said messed up things to my gf, broken things in and around my house, smoked more of my bud than I would have liked...etc.. I abused ambien for 1.5 years- never really hallucinated, just a ton of amnesia.
When I finally decided to quit- was the worst experience of my life. Panic attacks nightly when I would try and go to sleep, dissociative personality during the day, fell behind in my studies because of the dissociation, lacked social interactions because of general anxiety- i seriously thought I was becoming schizophrenic or something of the like. This continues to this day, although on a much lower level- thank god I feel like I'm getting back to normal...still can't sleep for shit though.
Stuff is rough- be careful