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Zolpidem (Ambien, 20mg) - Second Time - Life's Checklist

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Ambien (20mg) - Second Time - Life's Checklist

Well first off, sorry if this report sucks, because it's pretty much my first. But I just had to explain how crazy this Ambien stuff really is.

So, this is the morning after my first Ambien experience. My friend H had given me about 67 5mg Ambien's the previous night, and we tripped pretty good. I won't go into that. But today, H, C, and I are just planning to buy some weed and chill out. But we soon decide some Ambien is in order :).

I took 20mg, my friend H took 15mg, and my friend C (first time) took 20mg. C is much smaller than me, about H's size. He started tripping hard only 25 minutes or so later. He was asking us why there were 2 of everything including us. Then was rambling about people all around him and how he couldn't move because he didn't want to annoy all the poeple. I was hardly feeling it, so we made our way to Mcdonalds to meet our dealer. This is when things got interesting.

So I'm sitting at a table outside Mcdonalds waiting for our guy with C. H was inside getting food. C asks what he should do because he feels like he's "missing a piece of the puzzle" and I reccomend skating across the parking lot. He does it. I couldn't comprehend how much sense it made. All of a sudden, this completely random event made perfect sense and made me feel like I knew the answer to life.

At this point, I'm not thinking about the fact that I'm laying on the sidewalk in front of tons of people staring at me and C. I'd gotten the idea that life could be whatever we made it out to be. But the only way to fufill our desires was to do the following (this is still very hard for me to explain so bear with me):

There is a checklist, compiled by some people, or the drug Ambien, or even the mind. But it was there. And it consisted of completely random tasks like "Walk to this bench and turn to the left" and "Discuss today's weather" which I not only had to complete, but wanted to more than anything at that moment. I tried to explain this checklist system to C. At first he couldn't understand what I meant, but as the minutes passed and we sat in silence, he suddenly yells, "OHHHHHHH!!!" and we make eye contact, nod, and lay on the grass in unisen.

With each tast I completed I got an extreme feeling of joy and peace. Like I had a purpose and was rewarded for my actions. Like there was a deeper meaning and goal. We were sidetracked and ended up leaving Mcdonalds. I'm a huge guy (6'4 260lbs) and I don't know how to skate. But I grab my friends board, begin to push as fast as I can, and fall flat on my back. It hurt... alot. My arm is scraped and still hurts, but it was assigned to me, and after checking it off my (mental) list, I felt no pain.

We got home and this state of mind faded away when I started playing Mario Kart 64. Then our friend V came over. She took 20mg for her first time but hadn't told me she'd had a drink first. I don't know if that had anything to do with it. H went back to Mcdonalds to meet our guy for real this time, and V started coming on hard. She couldn't walk, talk, or see. Said she was falling into my bed and there were people everywhere and they all had sheets over them running around her.

I walked her to the bathroom but before I returned to take her back into my room I hear a crashing noise in my room. She was lying face down crying on the floor. She thought she was being eaten by the carpet and was dying. We calmed her down and after some sleep and puking she was back to normal. C also puked a lot when he got home.

So, all I can say is, this is a crazy result for taking some sleeping pills. V has done shrooms with me a few times, and says this was much much much more visual than shrooms, but overall the experience was awful for her. C also hallucinated for hours. I had a few minor hallucinations, same with H.

C is taking a break from it, V might not do it again, H and I are just gonna take it if we're in the mood or out of weed. I reccomend trying it though if your into psychedelics. Again, sorry if this is a shitty trip report, but I had to at least try to explain how weird this stuff is. Hope someone get's something out of this report... because I know I got something out of the experience.
 
I wont bother with a report, but I second the notion that this shit is fucking unbelievebly craqy. I dont understand it. Dont believe that it has ¨benzodiezapiate like effects¨no, that is def. not the case.

Seriously, I would compare it to a huge fucking acid trip and a glassfull of 151 rum.
 
I've heard many horror stories from Ambien. Someone on bluelight was saying how they were outside naked and screaming and ended up with thier parents seeing them, doesnt sound like fun to me.

Screaming + Naked + Parents = Not a fun time
 
^^ Sounds like loads of fun to me. :|

I've had some REALLY interesting results combining ambien with other hallucinogens recently. Something about ambien seems to bring one's subconscious, dreaming mind more to the surface. It makes a trip into a lucid dream environment, like having your own HoloDeck(tm).

Iprocin + ambien + pot was one of my most realistic hallucinations ever. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced with my eyes and ears. The objects and environment around me were all literally morphing into different landscapes depending on the music track playing. I should probably write a trip report about it, but I'm thinking I might try it again someday. My jaw was on the floor.

This was with 5mg ambien combined with 25mg iprocin, though. 20mg of ambien is probably a very severe deleriant, as it sounds like from this report. I don't think I would do that without a trip sitter or three.
 
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I was thinking what 5mg Ambien + 1.75g mushrooms would be like... I don't think I'm game to find out though. Mushroom mindfuck destroys me almost every time I trip. So the reasoning is that I could take a low dose of shrooms and hopefully get some good visuals also? Meh... risky.
 
that "CHECKLIST" thing you described sounds alot like some of the feelings I've gotten off PCP when I was really dusted. I felt like I was connected with everyone and everything and that all are actions were controlled but natural and completely in sync with eachother. Every action was like a total high within itself. Some of the hallucinations you've described sound like antochlorogenic type drugs such as datura which I will never try.
But I'm curious, are the hallucinations really similar to acid and shrooms, like melting/morphing, patterns/colors, trails etc...??? I've always been skeptical about trying ambien to get fucked up but this sounds very interesting.
 
It is very very hard to describe the visuals. On shrooms I know "whoah man thats a trippy visual" and I really think about it. On ambien the visuals come very fast and I just groove on them instead of analyze it.

The shit I saw: I was typing on bluelight and the letters began spinning in a carousel. Then, a paper man put a dome over my head and the monitor and the letters I was typing and when I'd type he'd whisper in my ear. Very odd.

My friends saw people all around them and also saw in double and triple vision. My friend C was saying "JESUS I FOUND MY DRUG" until he barfed on the comedown. He acted and looked like he was on shrooms.

V was too out of it. Overwhelmed with visuals (shes very small and as I said had some booze in her) and couldn't move much.

H has really bad ADHD and he's stopped taking his meds so he seems to have unique reations to drugs. He doesn't analyze and overthink it also. He just had a great time.

So the visuals for me weren't melting, more clear but so fast pace your not too sure whats going on. Despite the horror stories I think it's definately worth a try at least at a low dose.

If it helps you decide if you want to try it, I found it at all times to be a very clean high. I could either keep my train of thought perfectly, or I wouldn't be in the position that's I'd want or have to. But it was easy to snap out of a daze. And for me at least there were no bad side effects whatsoever except I had some synergy going in the bathroom holding a scale the toilet and the sink then I fell over and hit my head on a lightswitch.
 
^^ I noticed the "clean" feeling too. Fairly easy to reassert control when necessary.
 
Good report. Again draws me closer to the line of deciding to try ambien.

Sorry to sounds like a punk, though, but is taking ambien at a "higher than recommended" dose harmful at all for your brain? It's just that sleeping pills don't really come to mind as potential psychedelics.

Good job, though.
 
Well I thought at first, if I am taking enough of this shit to hallucinate... it must be fucking me up, right? But I realized some people hallucinate off 5-10mg which is the reccomended dose for sleep aid. So I think what makes you trip is staying awake; resisting the pill to "break through" I guess. I don't know, I'm stoned and haven't researched it much (not much recreational info out there though). Thanks for the compliment on the report.
 
You know, another thing I just considered; maybe Ambien was not researched as much as other recreational sedatives like Ketamine. I mean, say ketamine was prescribed as a sleep aid, and a select few abused it for fun. Could it be the same thing with Ambien? Maybe I'm just making stupid stoned connections, heh. Mmmm but I hope I can try ketamine someday.
 
i would also like to know how bad it is for you because im on zoloft for panic disorder mostly caused by drugs like meth and mdma so i dont wana make my condition worse with other drugs, i do however enjoy my ambien and its the only drug i do beside alchole, i only do 10 mg and i trip pretty hard, altho i notice that the tolerance builds up pretty quick. The trips are pretty cool, once i was getting full halucinations looking at my girlfriends face, it kept changing into other people that looked similar.
 
I remember reading that ambien is a selective Gaba agonist (I'm not sure what one though), so unless you are using it excessively and regularly, I don't think is nearly up to the level of neurotoxicity of MDMA or meth.
 
I don't understand how this is used as a recreational drug, I have a prescription for ambien, it puts me to sleep very quickly.. and just before I go to sleep I have amnesia, can't remember anything from one moment to the next so I have to be sure to be in bed... why doesn't it put you to sleep?
 
I actually have no clue. I don't even get drowsy. Maybe you have to take it in a setting where your looking to get high. Like during the day playing video games sitting up not laying down in the dark. In fact, the day I took it last I had trouble sleeping later ha.
 
I wonder what would happen if you mixed it with a powerfull stimulant. Anyone wanna try an ambienflip:)
 
I was actually prescribed ambien by my doctor for insomnia. I would never have investigated it on my own. I took it once when I wanted to finish off a trip and get some sleep. Instead of falling asleep, it intensified my trip 10x.

Since then I've discovered that up to 10mg does not necessarily put me to sleep. It kind of hypnotizes me. I can put MYSELF to sleep if I want to, but I can also stay awake fairly easily.
 
ambien is one of the most fun drugs i've ever done, because although you experience intense visual and audial distortions, you have no anxiety and everything seems rather funny....ambien is the shit :D...
 
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