[MisterOctober]

Yeah, the stuff is not fun -- I was prescribed it about a decade ago to deal with neuralgia-related sleep disturbance -- took it once, felt like I was being dragged under water by some unseen hand and couldn't come up -- the fear set in -- discarded remainder + never took again.

[gnulinux]

When I had a bad experience with Ambien (check my comment above) I thought what a fitting great name Ambien is. It totally recks your understanding of surrounding. I can't forget that when I went under my bed sheets it felt like I was in a different house. A very subtle but scary feeling. Like sleep paralysis except it's much more visual and confusing.

[MrEldritch]

I've heard the slightly terrifying proposal that Ambien actually doesn't help you sleep at all, it just gives you sleep paralysis and fucks you up enough that you're unable to remember having spent the entire night awake and delirious.

[gnulinux]

As crazy as it sounds, I believe this; but seems like a very hard-to-prove hypothesis.

[bxtt]

This is true. Ambien doesn't help you sleep.

I'm ambien right now. I was clean for 1 1/2 month but i cant anymore.