So that warning about doing random things after taking Ambien is true

[northstar3184]

My husband got video footage (which I will not be sharing!!) of me on Ambian. It's pretty hysterical- I walk into the kitchen with, no lie, a My Little Pony in each hand. Gusty & Majesty. And I say something like, "Hey, those bad ponies are coming." DH says, "They are? what's going on?" while laughing. I say, "Zeus won't let those bad ponies in, he will kick their ass." Video cuts off there, DH gets me back in bed, and I never have taken an Ambien since then! Oh, and Zeus is my dog. He apparently guards us from bad ponies.

LMFAO!!!! That is awesomely hilarious.

[Leave a Whisper]

My husband got video footage (which I will not be sharing!!) of me on Ambian. It's pretty hysterical- I walk into the kitchen with, no lie, a My Little Pony in each hand. Gusty & Majesty. And I say something like, "Hey, those bad ponies are coming." DH says, "They are? what's going on?" while laughing. I say, "Zeus won't let those bad ponies in, he will kick their ass." Video cuts off there, DH gets me back in bed, and I never have taken an Ambien since then! Oh, and Zeus is my dog. He apparently guards us from bad ponies.

Is it...wrong that I laughed?

[Princess Lala]

I used to take it, it was actually my dad's Px. He has to take it because he has severe sleep disorders and i started showing symptoms. He gave me some and it uh....made me kind of trippy!? I remember at 2ish am I woke up and saw my dad watching spongebob and another time he was all loopy playing Rock Band in the middle of the night. He usually passed out on the couch... poor guy! I remember another time after he took it he saw an add for the McDonalds Big Mac and he kept saying it was a cheesy ad because he always orders it with extra cheese I miss my dad LOL ambient did some silly stuff to that guy.

Post Merge: April 02, 2015, 09:13:10 PM

Can you switch to something like Lunesta?  I remember when I went to Australia last, I told my doctor I wanted to sleep through the plane ride over but had never taken a sleep aid before, and she gave me Lunesta because she said the last thing she wanted me to do was have an "episode" at 10,000 feet...

I slept like a baby and wasn't met at the gate by the police, so I guess I didn't have any side effects. 

Do NOT take Lunesta. A friend of mine did and it put him into a 2 day coma and now he has seizers all the time and it was the normal dosage. I worked with him and he actually lost his job because of all the seizures he had, and had to quit school. He was normal before he started taking that. Be careful with Px though in general
 

[ringwraith10]

Yeah, sometimes I randomly buy stuff in the night, too. Darn you, internet phones with Amazon and Ebay apps! I've tried a lot of different sleeping pills, and usually the worst they ever do to me is give me extremely detailed and realistic dreams (which often tell me a lot about myself and my unknown fears and stuff -- like I keep dreaming that my brother does something stupid and dies... and I realized that I am always worried that my idiot brother will do that!). Also, dreams only occur during very light sleep, so I still usually don't sleep well at night.

It is fun, though, when I receive a package, say to myself, "What in the world is this?!" then open it and find something that I had forgotten I purchased in the middle of the night. It's like receiving a present!

[rybett]

I wanna see the video!!!!!  Funniest thing hubby has done is very seriously tell me about the wagons passing by in our bedroom.  And then conked out.  I took one after a night shift and then sat down on the floor with my cereal.  All was well until hubby looked over 40 minutes later.  I was sound asleep bent forward over one leg.  Prior to that he had asked what I was doing.  I said I was stretching my hamstrings.  My back felt AWESOME when I woke up.   

[FullMoonFever]

I've been taking Lunesta for a while now and nothing bad.  It all depends on the person who's taking it.  I take the 3mg Lunesta tabs, and nothing adverse.  But Ambien.. ugh.  I found out my dad stopped taking it when he woke up in the middle of the night not knowing who he was, where he was or anything like that and having a panic attack.  The next morning he said he didn't remember it, but he stopped taking it.

~Jenn

[ringwraith10]

I wanna see the video!!!!!  Funniest thing hubby has done is very seriously tell me about the wagons passing by in our bedroom.  And then conked out.  I took one after a night shift and then sat down on the floor with my cereal.  All was well until hubby looked over 40 minutes later.  I was sound asleep bent forward over one leg.  Prior to that he had asked what I was doing.  I said I was stretching my hamstrings.  My back felt AWESOME when I woke up.   

Ooh, I should just try sleeping like that sometime!

My ex used to say the weirdest things in his sleep and he didn't need a sleep pill for that to happen. I have all of his lovely quotes written down. Favorites include, "I dropped my bulbasaur!" and "The day is in my eye!" (In all seriousness, though, I'm pretty sure he has narcolepsy. I read some stuff about it when I went to a sleep clinic once -- after we had broken up -- and I was like, "Ooooohhh... that explains it.")

[rybett]

Even funnier is I talk in my sleep and so does my 9 yr old.  Without sleep meds.  Hubby tells of a time we were asleep in the living room.  Daughter informed me "they can't do that to those sandwiches.  It's not fair"  I agreed with her.  One night I overheard her say "tin cans".  Twice.  Still trying to figure where she heard that as not something I thought was in her vocab.  New word: Sleepcabulary!!! 

[Corona]

I took ambien once. I somewhat remember what horrors happened after.

My bedroom melted away and I found myself in a swamp. The swamp muck was alive and began crawling on me. It had patterns like wood floors and everything it touched turned to wood. I was paralyzed from being turned into wood but somehow I found the strength to get up and it was kinda fuzzy between the swamp hallucination and reality. Somehow I made it into my parents' room, gripped to their bed for dear life, and tried to warn my mom about the wood slime while kinda falling to the floor. That's the last thing I remember.

Meanwhile in reality I stumbled into the room, grabbed onto the bed, and babbled incoherently about wood and how everything was turning into wood. My mom picked me up and tried to wake me up since she thought I was sleepwalking then remembered I took ambien. She took me downstairs and put me to bed on the couch in the TV room.

Never touched it again.

[rybett]

Sounds like a visit from the Smooze's first cousin.

[SeashellnBubbles]

When I first started taking my sleep helper I woke up at the local casino....which was 10 miles away by highway. I'd gone to the bank and withdrew money from the bank machine and had been gambling for lord knows how long before I came to. I had no idea what was going on but I knew better than to freak out (they kinda take freak outs seriously at a casino) I'd also dressed myself quite nicely in an outfit I almost never wear and in truth I very, very rarely gamble. It was scary to think I'd driven on the highway like that....

[Truly]

Oh wow these stories of what has happened is quite scary, with some quite funny I have to say! Still must have been very scary though.
I have no idea what medication my mum was on at the time, but it was something to do with sleeping aid. She was screaming my name in her sleep, I woke up in my room next to her room "MILL! MILL!" She sounded really scared and me just been woken up I thought something had happened and I ran in there, "mum what's wrong?! Are you ok!? What happened!?" And I went up to her and realised she was fast asleep, she them mumbled "..can you make me a coffee mill?" Then a few seconds after "mmm good."
A very very urgent coffee? Perhaps. Or maybe I make really good coffee? Of course I told her about it in the morning
After that urgent coffee dream it was a urgent mumbling situation about crocodiles eating her and her car. My poor mum stopped taking that stuff because she got so worked up over really vivid crazy dreams!

I do hope that everyone has found other better (safer?) methods of sleep aid and get a good night's sleep I used to be on something myself and just laughed at my own jokes very loudly in my sleep! I now just put a beanie on my head and over my eyes and ears, it's oddly helpful.

Watch those crocodiles.

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

I've never tried it due to be addicted to OTC sleeping pills for years. And frankly won't go near it because I all ready sleep walk and talk. Don't need added oddness on top of what I all ready do. Nothing dangerous, just random walking around my house talking about what was on the nightly news. Or trying to fold the laundry and getting frustrated when I dropped a sock. 

There was an antidepressant I was on years ago, that gave me vivid nightmares. Nope, nope, and nope. I stopped taking it because it was freaking me out. It was like a nightly version of the X-Files, which I adore but stuck in my dreams. With the feeling of being drunk or sea sick. Yeah, it was not fun.

[Stormness_1]

I can't take sleep meds due to sleepwalking without them. If you already sleep talk/walk before sleep medication, it will be worse when you take it! I use antihistamines for sleep, mostly Phenergan, but any drowsy formula should work. My doc recommended them to me after I realised that I spent my nights wandering around the house... no wonder I was always tired no matter how early I went to bed...

[FullMoonFever]

Even without the sleep aids I will hold intelligent conversations in my sleep.  I mean I've had long conversations about random topics with my parents, and it wasn't just babble.  I mean I would reply with real replies.  So bizarre, I don't do it often, but I have been drooling all over my plush Cheshire cat lately   His fur is a bit rumpled now... 

~Jenn