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Zolpidem (Ambien) - Experienced - A Colection of Reports

ToxicFerret

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Ambien - Experienced - A Colection of Reports

First time:
My friend gave me an Ambien pill for free. It was white with AMB10 on one side and the number on the other side. it was maybe .7 centimeters long and looked like it wsa made of chalk. At this time I had only tripped off of dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) and diflouroethane, the propellant in that cheap computer duster stuff.
So, its about 9 PM and I drop this pill. I have researched quite a few substances, including zolpidem, on Erowid but thought that I could handle myself if one of my parents showed up. As a final note, you have no idea what Ambien is like until you’ve actually tried it It’s by no means the most intense drugs there is; you don’t see the strangest visuals, you don’t feel super euphoric, you don’t get speedy or introspective or loving. It is however, unique, and I think everybody who can, should try it.
T+:30 I was feeling something that was reminiscent of my several dramamine trips. I had a floaty sort of feel, and things were moving around slightly. This movement was smooth, it had an organic sort of feel to it. At T+:45 Wacky! I was chatting on AIM when I noticed that the IM boxes were changing positions. They glided about on the screen. At this time I listened to a song that I used to be quite fond of: Bossman by Lucky Boys Confusion. This heavily influenced the trip. I became convinced that since I was choosing what music the computer was playing, I was a DJ at a party. Now, I didn’t hallucinate that I was at a party, it was more like I was remembering the time when I was a DJ. The cheery sort of feeling that Bossman created was increasing, and I couldn’t wipe the grin off my face.
T+1:15? I lost track of time but this was the approximate time that I noticed the IM boxes were completely changing position and zooming out of he monitor to fly around in front of my face. I decided that while this was interesting, playing my acoustic guitar would be even cooler. I went over to it, and noticed that there were not only the usual six strings, but an additional set of strings hovering over the normal set. I tried t touch the imaginary ste of strings and then realized that instead of one additional set of strings, there were about ten, each floating above the other ones. I tried to play then, but after figuring out that they were a hallucination, I decided to sit back down at te computer.
T+1:30 The trip was pretty much over. It seemed to get steadily less intense after the guitar string incident. I saw strange shifts in objects for maybe an additional half hour

Second time - Entities:
My same friend gave me three pills for $6 dollars, quite a fair deal I think. I was smart enough to know that I had to trip after my mother went to bed. I decided not to eat anything for about four hours beforehand in order to get the Ambien into my system faster.
T+1:00 What the hell? I know it should have hit me already.
T+2:00 I know the pills were real, because they looked exactly like they did last time. I eat something and talk to my girlfriend online.
T+2:15 Well, it looks like eating something was a good idea. I think it may have got my stomach to start digesting the pill, which it hadn’t done before because there was nothing substantial to digest. That’s my theory anyway. So, the same trippy visuals of objects moving that I had last time. I feel warm all over, which I felt a little bit of last time. It’s not like a physical warmth, but more like being comforted by a group of close friends.
T+2:45 I’m remembering being a tree. The bathroom tiles are woodland creatures, and they’re talking to me. This is much like remembering being a tree and remembering beign a DJ.. The tiles arent creatures, but they have the feeling that they are creatures. Te best way to put it into words is that they are alive, and they have the personalities that squirrels and woodchucks would have if they were sentient. Each one of them was talking to me, telling me that I was helping them by being there. Eventually I left.
This was a rather uneventful trip since the novelty of trying a new substance wasn’t there. Discovering the entities in the bathroom tiles was the best part of the trip.

Third time - The Drip:
Having fully explored my house while under the effects of oral Ambien, I wanted o try something new. I noticed one f the remaining two pills was missing a chunk. I estimate that if the zolpidem was evenly distributed throughout the pill, there were 7 mg zolpidem remaining. I tried crushing it and this proved difficult. I finally resorted to crushing it between the bottoms of two nail polish bottles. The resulting powder was flaky and slightly off-white. I used an einstein bagels gift card with no money left on it to crush it up and form it into a fat-ish line. I think it was nearly 5 centimeters long, and in places .75 centimeters wide. This was my first time snorting anything so i braced myself for the pain and snorted it through a rolled-up 1 dollar bill. I felt a stabbing pain in my right sinus. This felt peculiar alright, but within 30 seconds the pain had subsided. Ordinarily I wouldnt snort a pill due to fillers and binders, but these ambien pills were small enough that it seemed safe enough. I sat on the toilet seat, which was the smoothest surface i could find to snort it off of. Id wiped it wit a baby wipe beforehand so i figured it was clean enough.
T+:03 Hell yes, we have first alerts! I know them well enough.
T+:05 Objects were moving. Those crazy hexagonal bathroom tiles are shifting their vertical positions, this was quite a nice level and I would have been content to stay there. The drip tastes awful. I bet rotting flesh tastes better. Some orange juice does the trick.
T+:10 This seems like a peak. I was at a lower level than I had been at the peak of my oral trips. I sat in front of my PC, winamp visualizations turned on. They were mildly amusing.
T+:30 I’m down. That trip sucked. The dose, though insufflated, wasn’t high enough.

Fourth time - I am a Superhero:
So. The last trip was not that great. I decided insufflation was indeed the way to go due to the quick onset. I think I was just feeling impatient, otherwise I’d have eaten it. I have an entire pill left. I crush it with the nail polish bottles, take a deep breath, and take a line (about 3 cm x .5 cm each) up each nostril. I’ve decided to go outside, and knowing how helpless I am on Ambien, I’ve already told my mom and unlocked the various doors in my path. I had Goddamnit by Alkaline Trio in my walkman. Usually I listen to real punk but I was in the mood for Skiba’s nifty vocals.
T+:05 I’m outside, the stars are beautiful for a change. Usually I cant see so many since I’m in the middle of the city. No effects yet.
T+:10 That’s better. There’s some WEIRD SHIT going down in my backyard. The bricks that make up part of the ground in my backyard are rippling like water, and then stopping to shift their heights. This makes walking feel strange since they don’t feel like they’re at different positions vertically while they look like it. The stars are zippin around all over the place, leaving trails of sparkles in their wake. This is definitely shaping up to be stronger than any previous trips.
T+:15 This is amazing, there are little creatures cavorting around the yard. They look like little black shapes, they’re featureless, and they’re talking to me like the tiles did, but in a much more realistic way. The Alkaline is making this a rather dark trip in that I feel like I’m in a noir-ish movie, or a dark action flick like Underworld. I’m wearing a rather snazzy black trenchcoat and I’m running around and swirling it back and forth, so I get the idea that I’m some sort of hero. I suppose I associated the coat with a cape or something. The mice are adding to this idea by asking me for help. I don’t remember precisely how I was helpng them, but I know it had to involve dashing around the yard in a rather animated fashion.
T+:45 The CD player is low on batteries so the anti-spik feature isnt working to well as I dash about. I go inside and take a hot bath, thinking that this will feel cool since I’m high as a kite still. Instead it seems to eliminate the effects and I think that I’m sober.
T+1:00 Out of the bath. I dry off and get ready to go to bed, I’m finally sleepy sicne its about 2 AM. I get in bed and turn off the light and turn on the black light... and find myself to be hallucinating once again. Nothing major, just the full body scooby-doo suit hanging on the wall (long story) is moving its arms and legs, several masks on the walls seem to be floating around, and there is what appears to be a ferret head sticking out of the neck of a dress shirt on the wall. I later learned this was a bag that was behind the shirt.

In Conclusion...
What isn’t Ambien? Ambien is not a strong hallucinogen, though it does have certain visual aspects. Ambien isn’t an empathogen, while I felt warm and conforted by the world, I didnt feel a strong sense of love for other people. Ambien isn’t a pleasure pill like an opiate, nor does it have te dream-like qualities of dramamine. It is a hypnotic, yet I have never felt unexplainably sleepy while under its effects. I have always tripped a night, so I’m tired, but Ambien doesnt make me nearly pass out liek my father who used to have a legit script claimed. Ambien is safe, since the recommended dose makes me trip quite hard. Ambien is fun, I’ve yet to try it in a social situation, though I will next time I get my hands on some. It makes a boring night inside turn into an adventure. You feel almost like you were a child. My favorite part of an Ambien trip has to be the magic world that it puts you in.
Each Ambien existence is different. I find that I can switch worlds easily by simply listening to a song. The new world has the same feeling that the song has. The same entities are in each world, just inhabiting a different object of imagined creature. For example, one of the ‘midnight mice’ as i cleverly named them in my yard might have the same personality as one of the tile in my bathroom. This is hard to imagine, you really have to try ambien to understand it. There was also what I believed was a panther in my backyard. As I have long hair, it often falls in front of my eyes, and I always believed this was someone reaching for my face to get my attention.
Ambien has quite a positive feeling. So far I’ve only tried doses up to 10 mg. I intend to try doses higher than that. SO far I’ve found insufflation to be the most effective method. 10 mg orally lets me trip for an hour; 10 mg insufflated lets me trip twice as hard for 45 minutes or so, longer if you count slight visual shifts. It’s reasonably easy to get a hold of from what my pal says. All in all it’s an amazing, unique drug.
 
I never got any effects out of ambien, it only made me feel drowsy and sick. It never even got me to sleep properly, I`d take ambien and feel a bit sleepy but wouldn`t fall asleep. IMHO ambien isn`t worth it, made me feel sick and throw up(I drank a beer before doing ambien). To me it`s pretty useless as a sleepaid, and wasn`t very recreational either. I don`t think I`ll ever do it again
 
Wow I think you're really exageratting ambien. I have been prescribed to it for almost a year and I have experimented with doses anywhere between 5-50mg. I don't understand how you can call these experiences 'trips'.. I can definantly relate to these experiences, but they're not trips they're more of a delerium induced state... Not sleeping for about 5-7 days could get you the same effect ambien does. Entities? Aliens? Different worlds? Damn dude you must have a real good imagination, but seriously you need to like eat some TRYPtamines and then you'll see what it's really like to TRYP!!
 
IMO Ambien = Worthless, i tried a few pills, nothing, few more,nothing. Waste of time get some Tryptaimes like Sk8 mentioned.
 
if he can get a good trip from ambien, good for him, it does next to NOTHING for me. I tried it quite a few times(threw up once when I drank some beer before taking ambien) and the most I got out of it was drowsiness and maybe something that reminded me of a trippy feeling, wouldn`t call it anything like a trip though. Ambien is not really worth it for me, I don`t know if it`s because I have tried much better drugs, or maybe it doesn`t effect me or something. 60mg ambien didn`t even make me fall asleep
 
ambien is a fantastic little pill when taken at the tail end of a psychadellic trip.

Swim finds geometric visuals with no real meaning go to images with incredibly subtle metaphors before you go to sleep.

Swim described patterns from a 2c-b trip which were fairly interesting albeit "plasticy" turning into a small feudal japanese city in "sim city" view complete with peasants, lords, etc, right before she drifted off.

Excellent substance for what it's supposed to do (make you sleep). Far better than benzos for this express purpose.

The only recreational use is in experiencing that "right before I go to sleep" alpha wave state a bit longer which you can do with a larger dosage and caffine/amphetamines. Although you have to be a crazy mf'r to do that.
 
If it explains it any, I'm a lightweight, at least from what i've seen so far. Five dramamine are enough to get me mildly hallucinating, as opposed to the ten or twelve that ar usually required, i can get a realy nice buzz from a single cig, I got wildly high first time i smoked up, i get drunk off of two beers, etc.

I dunno, Ambien's somethin special to me, its a real shame that it doesnt work for you guys.:(
 
Interesting experiences, thanks for submitting :)

Snorting ambien with a one dollar bill.. Can't get more white-kid ghetto than that ;-)
 
jesus WHAT the fuck are you people talking about? i've done shrooms, and i can say ambien is still weirder, although not stronger....i have experienced the same exact things that ferret described, especially the many-worlds experiences and rippling of objects. I've talked to 'closet people' on ambien before too :)
 
rprp said:
ambien is a fantastic little pill when taken at the tail end of a psychadellic trip. Swim finds geometric visuals with no real meaning go to images with incredibly subtle metaphors before you go to sleep. Swim described patterns from a 2c-b trip which were fairly interesting albeit "plasticy" turning into a small feudal japanese city in "sim city" view complete with peasants, lords, etc, right before she drifted off.
^^ That's my experience exactly (substitute iprocin for 2C-B). I love ambien on the comedown of a psychedelic. Almost as good as pot, better in some ways. By itself I haven't yet found it that interesting. Never snorted it though.
 
ambien does this kind of thing inconsistently for me. if i go to sleep, fine, but if don't....lala land. madness. blackout, don't remember it, but i do. people trying to get in my room, then disappearing, over and over again. methadone GREATLY exagerated this effect. if you get hooked on ambien for sleeping, then it stops working, it starts sending you to blackout oz instead of sleep, and you mostly don't remember it. to me, ambien is WICKED and evil

this has abuse potential way beyond anything else used for sleep. you guys, you have to be patient with it, expect it, fight sleep, and go into the dream state. if you've tried it, try again. take two and make yourself stay up. and DON"T go outside, as in lock the door.

if this fails, take it go to sleep, but set your alarm for one hour. when you wake up, you are not in kansas anymore. this is actually dangerous, in some cases. you don't wake up, or at least you don't stop dreaming. but shit, you do move around and do stuff.
 
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^^ Completely. If this stuff isn't working orally, youjust may not e waiting long enugh. Orally it's taken from thirty minutes to three hours to work on me depending on how recently and how much I've eaten. Snorting still gets the effects going faster and harder I think.
 
I had a friend who had access to Ambien about a year ago. Never wanted to try it myself at the time. He said he saw realistic hallucinations, like ants on the floor and people. I wondered if it had to do with some anticholinergic effect, like with Datura or antihistamine intoxication. But, after looking at reports since then, it appears the experience is pretty different. I'd like to try this sometime.
 
I've used ambien three times, the first time was pretty crazy (mild visuals) but the other 2 times weren't all that great. I crashed out pretty much immediately, just couldn't fight the tiredness.

15mg tonight, we'll see how I go... hehe

Good report, thanks :)

Astaroth.
 
Everyone's mileage will vary, I have this strange feeling that if Ambien ever comes my way I'll give it a try (I won't actively search it out mind you)

Still, nice report
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ambien is some crazy shit, and sometimes I get visuals better from that shit than I do from acid or even 20mg 2c'e. They are a different type of visuals, tho.. no fractals or trails. more like the halloucination of the guitar
 
Indelibleface said:
I had a friend who had access to Ambien about a year ago. Never wanted to try it myself at the time. He said he saw realistic hallucinations, like ants on the floor and people. I wondered if it had to do with some anticholinergic effect, like with Datura or antihistamine intoxication. But, after looking at reports since then, it appears the experience is pretty different. I'd like to try this sometime.

Antihistamines leave my head feeling lke mush, i feel real stupid the day after, but with Ambien I feel clearheaded and almost well rested the next day. It's a hypnotic I think. Anybody know of an other substances in that catagory?
 
I've been taking Zolpidem daily (Stilnox in Australia) for insomnia for approximately 2.5 years.

The highest dose I've ever taken is 90mg combined with approx. 350mls of scotch whiskey. Needless to say i was fucked. Apparantly (I don't remember anything) I was having an in depth conversation with my cat (i def. agree that objects and animals take on strange personalities) and periodically going into my sister's room and waking her up and getting in and out of her bed. This laster for about 6 hours. My dad and sister where very worried about me and sat up watching me.

Another time I took 50mg and tried to write the effects down, all I got was:
"It feels like I'm at a party. I know I'm not and I know there is no one else here but it feels like I am and it is fun.

As sk8punk said "they're not trips they're more of a delerium induced state..."

^^
I've definately found that to be the case. Even on very high doses I've never had full blown visual hallucinations. Shit has certainly got wierd though...
 
i took 40 mg almost 2 hours ago...dont know what a safe dose is so im only gonna add 20 mg more now...ill let you know how it goes
 
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