Also fun fact: zolpidem was the first drug I tried, and the chain of events that led to me taking zolpidem was sort of funny.
I saw the film Leon (1994) and became obsessed with the bad guy, Norman Stansfield played by Gary Oldman. Crooked cop character, joker-ish, that constantly crunches mysterious pills that make him manic and psychotic. Among fans there's a lot of speculation about what he's taking - some say amphetamine, other say benzos, other PCP or even combinations of all of them. I think zolpidem is the absolute best match.
Minutes after finishing the movie I decided to crunch some pills in the bathroom and miraculously went for the zolpidem pills which were prescribed to my dad.
It's so funny to me that I happened to have the specific drug that most resembles the drug used by that character.
This obviously heightened the obsession to dangerous levels. I cosplayed as that guy a couple times, obviously very high on zolpidem. I don't think anyone recognized the character though.