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zopiclone/imovane - Inexperienced - Trip Report

keithglover420

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This summer, i was visiting a good friend whom i've known since we both were 7. While i have been experimenting with various psychoactive substances since i was 17, he had only smoked weed 3 times and not done any other substance besides alcohol. About 3 days before i went to visit him, he asked me if i could bring any psychedelics over. Living in Amsterdam, this seemed easy for me, but i was reluctant to have to smuggle any shrooms, acid or mescaline into Norway (which happens to be a fairly strict country drug-wise). However, i had insomnia about 3 months before the visit, and my doctor prescribed me with some zopiclone under the name Imovane. I had heard from a friend that you could trip out on it, even heard it was like taking a mild shroom trip. So i decided to bring that for the trip.
When we eventually were ready to try it out, we were sitting in his small apartment in Fredrikstad. His living room was small, but with several fun trip factors: he had 2 disco balls, a very trippy "village road" carpet (you know the kind you used to have in your baby room, with roads and houses in birds-eye vision) and several posters from various rock bands.
We took 3 tabs of 7.5mg zopiclone and a fenazon-caffeine tab each (the caffeine to keep us awake). We then waited for about 20 minutes before the drug started taking effect. The first thing i noticed was that waving my hands in front of my face was very mesmerizing, followed shortly by the little light spots in the roof, created by the disco lights, started moving and merging. I then felt a strong desire to get up and jump around, which then inevitably led me to looking down at the carpet; the roads started curving and meandering, and little dark spots started driving down along them, as if they were invisible cars of which you could only see the shadow underneath. When i looked at his Iron Maiden and KISS posters, it seemed they were popping out of the poster, but I also witnessed the backgrounds in full animation. And most surprisingly to me, he had a little green flashlight that when looked into and moved around, would leave a trail of colored patches, each of an entirely different color.
I think it's safe to say that zopiclone belongs in the psychedelics section of this forum. Please tell me if you disagree or if you've ever had any bad trips/side effects from this drug.
 
This is not the place for trip reports, we have a whole forum for them, with rules about formatting and such.
 
I do not agree that zopiclone is a psychedelic. A psychedelic is about mind manifestation, not about visuals. However I do agree that it can be an interesting experience. I am opening this and moving it to Trip Reports... thanks for sharing. I have also renamed it slightly to conform to standards.
 
I loved Zolpidem, but didn't like zopiclone nearly as much. Zolpidem hit me so hard, so fast. 10mg was enough for a dream like night of fun.

Zopiclone resulted in one of the dumbest days of polydrug use my friends and I have ever had. It didn't change and warp reality as much as zolpidem did, but it did take away my inhibitions and make me think that taking other drugs was a good idea. It was one of those days where we woke up the next morning and our house was trashed and you only kind of remember what happened. Plus it makes water taste so absolutely disgusting (like metal).

So yeah so far I give zolpidem a big thumbs up, while zopiclone I feel is better suited for a relaxing night at a small dose if anything. Everyone's different though!
 
zolpidem is definitely psychedelic - when on it, my thoughts are manifested in the experience, usually visually. I definitely would consider, in my experience, zolpidem to be a mind-manifesting psychedelic drug...

thanks for posting? it was a good read.
 
Hmm, I'm getting off heroin now, so my mum gave me 11 mgs of zolief to sleep on, which i think is zopiclone. Never had any experience with that before, but now it's been 1 hour 20 minute since i swallowed it and dont feel a thing. I got two more 7.5 mgs so im thinking of taking one then maybe the other. But should you swallow it or let it melt under your toung or what? If i take one more thing will i have a mild trip? what if i take bought?
 
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