To begin, let me just say that I did not mean to get high! I did not know that you could get high on zolpidem/Ambien, but I was verrry pleasantly surprised by my experience on it 
I suffered with depression for a few years and, besides being on an antidepressant (Lexapro) daily, I was prescribed Ambien for occasional insomnia and irregular sleep patterns. I was, by the way, fully recovered from the depression at the time of my experience, so my mental state at the time was not a factor in this drug’s effect on me.
Anyway, this night in particular I couldn’t sleep so, like countless times before, I took a 7.5mg pill that I had next to my bed. Usually when you take an Ambien you need to go to sleep more or less straight away (ie. not listen to music or read or anything) because there’s only like a 20 minute window where the pill works or else you bypass its potential and just stay awake. This is what my psychiatrist at the time told me…and turns out he was right. So usually, I would have gone straight to sleep, and I did try to do that this time as well, but I was dating this boy at the time and he was out with his friends that night and was texting me as I tried to go to sleep. Every time he texted me I texted him back, and so I ended up not falling asleep. After a while I thought, fuck this, the pill isn’t working - so I took another one, another 7.5mg. Again, we kept texting back and forth and I didn’t fall asleep. Things start getting pretty hazy after this... I took another half a pill at some stage too, because I was still awake, but at some point I became stoned out of my fucking mind.
I’m not exactly sure when I realised this but it pleased me immensely
I had returned from a festival only a few days previous, where I had done ecstasy for the first time, and I had been itching to get high again. So this happy Ambien accident couldn’t have come at a better time! I was lying in bed the whole night that this was going on, so I didn’t have any dizzy spells or anything like that - I just felt super chilled out and ridiculously happy and emotionally free and as if I was floating and it was seriously beautiful. I spent four or five hours listening to Woozy by Faithless on my iPod, just kept playing it over and over and over…it was the perfect soundtrack to my trip.
In the end, my boy ended up getting stoned with his friends and we exchanged some dirty texts - and I remember feeling the absolute sexiest I have ever felt in my entire life - I felt free as a bird to say and do whatever I wanted, with no inhibitions whatsoever. We ended up having phone sex, which I usually find really boring, but on Ambien was the business! It was especially hot, I think it was the lack of inihibition that made it so. After which I fell asleep. Of course. The next morning I read the sexy texts and it just felt like an awesome dream All in all, I remember the general hazy feeling I had that night - I remember very few actual details - the five or so hours that I was high felt like maybe half an hour, all the time just sort of melted together. But it was frickin awesome.
After that night I was so excited to do it again! I have a sort of addictive personality and I was just after coming out of my depression, so I was wary as to what this drug could do to my mental state. So I didn’t do it again (at least not for the purposes of getting high) for a few months. But, of course, I had to try it again sooner or later!
So maybe four months later I got a new months prescription from my doctor - a whole 30 pills - and I thought, I can waste two or three on a little experiment… So I took two and, lo and behold, 15 minutes later I was high as a kite! This time, while I was in bed, I was sitting up with the lights on, as I wanted to experience the trip properly this time and to see how I felt when I was actually paying attention to things. I was actually reading other people’s experiences of Ambien on the Erowid Experience Vault at the time that the pills took effect, and I remember having to concentrate really hard on the words and not being able to focus so well on the computer screen.
Then I looked over at the opposite side of my room where I have a curtain of glass beads and I could see the glass beads moving and swaying from side to side. It’s a very different feeling to being drunk - things weren’t swaying the way they do when you’ve had too much to drink - it’s almost like a very light breeze is making things move slowly, almost reverberate or something. It’s kind of a soothing experience. I also had clothes hanging on the front of my wardrobe and I could see the clothes moving towards me very clearly. I started texting my friend and the keys on my phone looked like little bubbles, I though this was weird but fantastic for some reason. I texted her some crazyass message by the way, I read through it the next morning and could barely understand it myself, real stream of consciousness stuff, but from a high mindset. While I was texting her I felt like I was talking not just to her, but to 20 people. 20 people exactly, I don’t know where the number came from. I also kept seeing people in my room out of the corner of my eye but when I would turn to look at them they weren’t there. This wasn’t scary or anything, I just thought they were messers basically! I also thought I was in an industrial kitchen, all stainless steel surfaces all around me, even though I was sitting in my pink bed in my pink room. At this stage I stopped texting my friend, decided I wanted to listen to some trip-hop music to complement my high - so I started to do that but promptly fell asleep. No hangover the next morning or anything, fantastico!
I did it a couple of other times too, mostly the experiences were like the second one I described above - but a few times I ended up taking more than I intended to, because the pills were next to my bed, and I guess I decided, while high, that I should take more?! I don’t know, all I know is a couple times I’ve woken up and seen more empty pill packaging than I expected to!
The one thing I will say is - it hits you out of the blue, so don’t take too much too quickly. Also, I took it a few more times and ended up offering it to my dad (who also likes to get stoned, but mostly from weed). On my feet I wasn’t so steady - I don’t think I’d take it on a night out or anything. And finally - it can make you seriously forget shit - I’ve done a few things that I have absolutely no memory of the next morning (nothing too bad - texting people, umm offering it to my dad, my sister…). My dad did end up trying it by the way, he did 10mg and didn’t get any high off it - bear it mind that he has like 6 stone on me and is a lifelong heavy cannabis user, so that may have put him at a disadvantage in that sense. Anyway - potentially a very dangerous drug if not used carefully and with a certain amount of cop on, but it’s fucking awesome if used in a controlled fashion.
I suffered with depression for a few years and, besides being on an antidepressant (Lexapro) daily, I was prescribed Ambien for occasional insomnia and irregular sleep patterns. I was, by the way, fully recovered from the depression at the time of my experience, so my mental state at the time was not a factor in this drug’s effect on me.
Anyway, this night in particular I couldn’t sleep so, like countless times before, I took a 7.5mg pill that I had next to my bed. Usually when you take an Ambien you need to go to sleep more or less straight away (ie. not listen to music or read or anything) because there’s only like a 20 minute window where the pill works or else you bypass its potential and just stay awake. This is what my psychiatrist at the time told me…and turns out he was right. So usually, I would have gone straight to sleep, and I did try to do that this time as well, but I was dating this boy at the time and he was out with his friends that night and was texting me as I tried to go to sleep. Every time he texted me I texted him back, and so I ended up not falling asleep. After a while I thought, fuck this, the pill isn’t working - so I took another one, another 7.5mg. Again, we kept texting back and forth and I didn’t fall asleep. Things start getting pretty hazy after this... I took another half a pill at some stage too, because I was still awake, but at some point I became stoned out of my fucking mind.
I’m not exactly sure when I realised this but it pleased me immensely
I had returned from a festival only a few days previous, where I had done ecstasy for the first time, and I had been itching to get high again. So this happy Ambien accident couldn’t have come at a better time! I was lying in bed the whole night that this was going on, so I didn’t have any dizzy spells or anything like that - I just felt super chilled out and ridiculously happy and emotionally free and as if I was floating and it was seriously beautiful. I spent four or five hours listening to Woozy by Faithless on my iPod, just kept playing it over and over and over…it was the perfect soundtrack to my trip. In the end, my boy ended up getting stoned with his friends and we exchanged some dirty texts - and I remember feeling the absolute sexiest I have ever felt in my entire life - I felt free as a bird to say and do whatever I wanted, with no inhibitions whatsoever. We ended up having phone sex, which I usually find really boring, but on Ambien was the business! It was especially hot, I think it was the lack of inihibition that made it so. After which I fell asleep. Of course. The next morning I read the sexy texts and it just felt like an awesome dream
All in all, I remember the general hazy feeling I had that night - I remember very few actual details - the five or so hours that I was high felt like maybe half an hour, all the time just sort of melted together. But it was frickin awesome.After that night I was so excited to do it again! I have a sort of addictive personality and I was just after coming out of my depression, so I was wary as to what this drug could do to my mental state. So I didn’t do it again (at least not for the purposes of getting high) for a few months. But, of course, I had to try it again sooner or later!
So maybe four months later I got a new months prescription from my doctor - a whole 30 pills - and I thought, I can waste two or three on a little experiment… So I took two and, lo and behold, 15 minutes later I was high as a kite! This time, while I was in bed, I was sitting up with the lights on, as I wanted to experience the trip properly this time and to see how I felt when I was actually paying attention to things. I was actually reading other people’s experiences of Ambien on the Erowid Experience Vault at the time that the pills took effect, and I remember having to concentrate really hard on the words and not being able to focus so well on the computer screen.
Then I looked over at the opposite side of my room where I have a curtain of glass beads and I could see the glass beads moving and swaying from side to side. It’s a very different feeling to being drunk - things weren’t swaying the way they do when you’ve had too much to drink - it’s almost like a very light breeze is making things move slowly, almost reverberate or something. It’s kind of a soothing experience. I also had clothes hanging on the front of my wardrobe and I could see the clothes moving towards me very clearly. I started texting my friend and the keys on my phone looked like little bubbles, I though this was weird but fantastic for some reason. I texted her some crazyass message by the way, I read through it the next morning and could barely understand it myself, real stream of consciousness stuff, but from a high mindset. While I was texting her I felt like I was talking not just to her, but to 20 people. 20 people exactly, I don’t know where the number came from. I also kept seeing people in my room out of the corner of my eye but when I would turn to look at them they weren’t there. This wasn’t scary or anything, I just thought they were messers basically! I also thought I was in an industrial kitchen, all stainless steel surfaces all around me, even though I was sitting in my pink bed in my pink room. At this stage I stopped texting my friend, decided I wanted to listen to some trip-hop music to complement my high - so I started to do that but promptly fell asleep. No hangover the next morning or anything, fantastico!
I did it a couple of other times too, mostly the experiences were like the second one I described above - but a few times I ended up taking more than I intended to, because the pills were next to my bed, and I guess I decided, while high, that I should take more?! I don’t know, all I know is a couple times I’ve woken up and seen more empty pill packaging than I expected to!
The one thing I will say is - it hits you out of the blue, so don’t take too much too quickly. Also, I took it a few more times and ended up offering it to my dad (who also likes to get stoned, but mostly from weed). On my feet I wasn’t so steady - I don’t think I’d take it on a night out or anything. And finally - it can make you seriously forget shit - I’ve done a few things that I have absolutely no memory of the next morning (nothing too bad - texting people, umm offering it to my dad, my sister…). My dad did end up trying it by the way, he did 10mg and didn’t get any high off it - bear it mind that he has like 6 stone on me and is a lifelong heavy cannabis user, so that may have put him at a disadvantage in that sense. Anyway - potentially a very dangerous drug if not used carefully and with a certain amount of cop on, but it’s fucking awesome if used in a controlled fashion.
