Yeah yeah it burns.. But there are things people do which burn much much more.. And the sensation goes away in a couple of minutes. As you will be getting so fucked up it will not start mattering much.
In the past i had the most horrible experience with this shit... I drunk a lot, thought I sobered up. Popped 20 mg... Blacked out. I woke up in the morning on my bed without linens with a face of my mother looking miserable and painfully into my eyes. "Do you remember anything?"...
I knew that something was wrong. I felt horrible, dizzy. She told me that I was found a little later at night in the kitchen holding a bag of ice and a teapot with no pants on, mumbling something about making coffee. My mom took me upstairs, she knew at that time that something is not right. She realized that I was sleepwalking like I used to when I was a kid. We sat down on her couch and I kept talking to her in English for some reason (99% of the time we speak Russian). We talked about religion and Jesus Christ. Both of us are atheists and it was very strange. From what she told me I said that Jesus wasn't resurrected but friends stole and hid his corpse. I said that he died not for our sins but because he was too smart of a man for Romans to sustain. It was done as a political action when someone that didn't do anything wrong still gets punished in order to fuel the regime. I also said that cross is the symbol of injustice and death... We talked more about a variety of topics. Then I was found in my bathroom giving a lecture of something very obscure but important to my reflections. Then I went through my closet trying to find something I couldn't.. After all of that I passed out in the early morning.. Oh yeah, when I wake up I found out that I managed to get into my system a large amount of DXM and then countless OTC sleeping aids as I saw empty pill bottles under my bed. No idea how did that happened.... It sounded like I wanted to kill myself or god knows what...
I got so scared after I found all of it. And embarrassed as well for my actions.. The worst I don't remember anything I was saying but I really wish to know my atheistical insights into angels and christian mythology induced by tripping on Ambien. What a drug.
I fet so bad walking. When I went to bathroom I saw poring water with none of the faucets turned on. I shapes of dark clouds traveling around me. One was in the shower cabin and that thing was making weird energy discharges that looked like grey and pale lightnings. Looking outside was unbearable. Hallucinations of strange lines connecting objects around the field, like everything was floating with those grey but quiet lightings .. I was tripping at 9 am. It was intense. I didn't feel sane, I felt like I lived in between of two realities - my sober normal world and a dreamy, illogical, phantasy world where none of the customs, ideas or anything really makes sense unless you are part of it...
I struggled to sleep and I saw movie-like strong hallucinations while I slept dreaming lucidly.. My skin had an off yellow color to it and it felt like I am loosing my sanity and going somewhere too dip into my consciousness not for my own good. I was trembling, and couldn't make sense out of everything that was happening. Then lethargic, tired for the next tree days until I finally stepped into the reality completely.
That experience hunts me. I believe ambien if used right it can bring some very very interesting things out of people's souls and minds. However, I rather won't venture ever again into that nightmare.
Don't add to the goodness of ambien any alcohol or other depressants. Your being will be under very much stress.