Zolpidem (Ambien) hallucinations? 10mg

[johnloperamide]

I've been taking Ambien the past 2 nights to sleep cause I'm in opiate withdrawal and can't sleep and it's making me hallucinate each time if I don't fall enough fast enough.. I took it on my 2nd night of withdrawal and I fell asleep fast since it was mixed with Xanax and didn't hallucinate that time

It's the weirdest feeling, it comes literally from one second to the next, and at first it freaks me out and want it to stop but then it gets kind of interesting.. There's a towel folded in my bathroom and it's funny cause when I look at it hallucinating I always think it looks like a bird haha.. I also talk to things in my room and see everything move.. BTW: I am not trying to get high, just to sleep... I did try to trip before a few months back and I did bad and ended up vomiting so never again.. vomiting is what I hate the most in this world, it's caused me to stop drinking altogether and I'm really glad it happened

 

[neurotic]

it happens. at least to me, zolpidem makes me weird as fuck!

forget about the zolpidem and take more xanax instead?

 

[Nom de Plume]

Zolpidem is an effective somnifacient in moderate, therapeutic doeses (i.e., not more than 30 mg).

However, never one to take a potentially recreational drug as per my prescriber's recommendations, I've administered quantities up to 300mg Zolpidem at a time.

This drug is profoundly psychotomimetic and hallucinogenic, I find. Just last week, I had a most unusual experience with 100mg zolpidem—and a concomitant 3 shots Vodka, with which I washed the pills down.

The result: I felt little to no sedation, but I did spend the next 6 or 7 hours glued to my bed whilst talking to imaginary, amorphous people (who walked through my walls and floated over my bed whilst salaciously flirting, contemptuously jeering, philosophically debating, amicably greeting, obsequiously complementing, and occasionally verbally abusing me without ruth nor relent.

I hallucinated floating faces twirling around my bedside like planets about the sun. My room transmogrifyed into a bustling and boisterous restaurant, without any patrons in attendance, but only their voices and the clinking of metal silverware against glasses and porcelain plates.

And most peculiar of this all was my complete inability to sense anything was out of ordinary or outré, as ome might with, say, dissociatives or psychedelics. Nothing about the whole thing seemed to be imaginary or abnormal, until I came to and the drug's weird effects began to fade.

Of course, this experience was unfortunately accompanied by some degree of anterograde amnesia; and so my recollection is spotty and incomplete.

But, boy! It was very intriguing.

 

[SixBuckets]

The hallucinations go away with regular use. They're kinda a noob effect.

 

[Nom de Plume]

The hallucinations go away with regular use. They're kinda a noob effect.

Why do they go away with regular use? Might it simply be a buildup of drug tolerance, in which case a higher quantity (say, 500mg) in the inveterate user is tantamount to a lower quantity (say, 100mg} in the neophyte, in regard to the intensity, duration and quality of effects produced?

Or does one's brain simply develop an immunity or insensitivity to the hallucinogenic effects of zolpidem altogether, regardless of the dose administered or tolerance and/or familiarity of the user to the drug?

 

[johnloperamide]

Why do they go away with regular use? Might it simply be a buildup of drug tolerance, in which case a higher quantity (say, 500mg) in the inveterate user is tantamount to a lower quantity (say, 100mg} in the neophyte, in regard to the intensity, duration and quality of effects produced?

Or does one's brain simply develop an immunity or insensitivity to the hallucinogenic effects of zolpidem altogether, regardless of the dose administered or tolerance and/or familiarity of the user to the drug?

haha Idk how the hell you take such large doses, I threw up with only 30mg and it made me nauseous for a whole day and usually just thinking about Ambien makes me nauseous... This a drug I definitely do no with to abuse again

 

[SixBuckets]

Why do they go away with regular use? Might it simply be a buildup of drug tolerance, in which case a higher quantity (say, 500mg) in the inveterate user is tantamount to a lower quantity (say, 100mg} in the neophyte, in regard to the intensity, duration and quality of effects produced?

Increasing the dose very much past the therapeutically recommended dose just knocks you out and gives you amnesia. You might get 'tolerant' to the point where you don't see the visuals anymore, but if you triple your dose to get them back you're likely to just lose three days of your memory and have trouble going to the bathroom without falling over.

I guess it has recreational value if you only use it occasionally, but if you're actually taking it as a medication it gets boring pretty quickly.

Or does one's brain simply develop an immunity or insensitivity to the hallucinogenic effects of zolpidem altogether, regardless of the dose administered or tolerance and/or familiarity of the user to the drug?

Couldn't tell you.