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[Darkmakaimura]

So to try to make this as short as possible, I've been under a lot of stress and I haven't been sleeping well.

My Ambien prescription is finally due and I picked it up last night. Now before I even get home to take my medications, I'm experimenting all sorts of crazy stuff. Most of it is normal though but just people acting what's differently or out of character.

When I got back home, I just did the usual of putting everything down then showering and laying in bed and the hallucinations and the weird visions haven't stopped.

Now disclaimer is that I've never done hallucinogenic drugs before. So I have no reference to go by as far as that is but I am experiencing some wild hallucinations that do include audio hallucinations. So yes I can hear things that may or may not be true within the reality around me.

I think this is a combination of lack of sleep for the last 3 days or 4 days as well as trying to take some Ambien this morning to help me sleep, which it did it and normally it works.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

Now you will have to ask yourself if this reply is really here or just a hallucination.

 

[Skyfox]

I hope you feel better

I don’t use any medications so I’d just say ring a nurse or doctor phone number for advice.

 

[RagnarokIV]

What if your trans roommate drama has all been a hallucination and your own personal nightmare, Silent Hill 5: GAF.

Coming up is the plot twist where you realize this and then get the UFO ending (hence the drones over the US).

 

[Hookshot]

Mellow like a rippling ceiling and bird song or full blown dancing midgets shouting at you?

 

[Big Baller]

 

[Davesky]

Welcome to the other side of life brother. The next stage of your journey can include precognition, synchronicity and even contact with the dead! I highly suggest reading all of the Gospels, the Neg Hammadi library, some Rudolf Steiner texts and Carl Jungs 'The Red Book' as required reading. Don't give up!

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Now you will have to ask yourself if this reply is really here or just a hallucination.

I know that is a joke, but let me tell you when you genuinely in that situation, it's fucking terrifying. Once you can no longer trust your own perception, it's fucking ominous bro.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Watch this beautiful animation. It will help you feel centred!

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Now disclaimer is that I've never done hallucinogenic drugs before

 

[Davesky]

I know that is a joke, but let me tell you when you genuintely in that situation, it's fucking terrifying. Once you can no longer trust your own perception, it's fucking ominous bro.

Very true. There is very good reason anyone on a shamanic journey in ancient times required an elder guide. It can completely isolate and destroy you.

 

[DosGamer]

Just remember, there is nothing wrong with talking to yourself....as long as you dont answer.

 

[Tams]

This thread's theme song:

 

[ReBurn]

Lack of sleep can definitely lead to hallucinations. I've had it happen to me. Ambien just turned my hallucinations into night terrors I was unable to wake up from. My doctor switched me to doxepin because it slows down brain activity allowing me to sleep more normally. It's also a type of antidepressant but my doctor said it doesn't really work for that.

 

[DragoonKain]

I'm not a doctor, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've heard neuroscientists say that Ambien doesn't actually give you "real sleep" as in normal REM sleep. It's a weird kind of sleep that doesn't refresh your body the way normal sleep does. I'm not saying don't take it, you and your doctor need to be the ones to decide what is best for you, but I'm curious if you've tried other methods or things to fall asleep first? Or was it right to Ambien? Ambien is strong stuff, I've heard stories of people doing crazy shit on Ambien. Sleepwalking and cooking meals or getting into their cars on it.

 

[YCoCg]

FOUR KRUSTIES!

 

[Trilobit]

I think this is a combination of lack of sleep for the last 3 days or 4 days as well as trying to take some Ambien this morning to help me sleep, which it did it and normally it works.

Very likely, the mind goes bananas without sleep. I hope the ambien helps, but I think you also need to make changes in your life as that level of stress isn't healthy in the long run.

If the weirdness continues despite sleeping or ambien doesn't help it might be a good idea to talk with your doctor so that there isn't any underlying illness causing it.

 

[MudoSkills]

It's the time, ask her out.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

It's the time, ask her out.

I convinced her to stay one more month, rent free, now that I have money hopefully coming in this week and next.

 

[MudoSkills]

Now fuck her.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Now fuck her.

In the ass.

 

[nush]

I convinced her to stay one more month

Did you offer to suck her dick?

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Now fuck her.

In the ass.

Did you offer to suck her dick?

Sorry folks but she does not like me in that way, at all.

If she did, though....

 

[The Cockatrice]

Sorry folks but she does not like me in that way,

Make her like you that way then.

 

[T8SC]

Sorry folks but she does not like me in that way, at all.

If she did, though....

She'd fuck you in the ass?

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Darkmakaimura]

She'd fuck you in the ass?

I'm okay with this.

 

[Krathoon]

You may need some antipsychotic medication.

 

[Krathoon]

You may be able to go to a psych ward and get them to set you up on an outpaitent service.

That way, you don't have to stay there for Christmas.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

You may be able to go to a psych ward and get them to set you up on an outpaitent service.

That way, you don't have to stay there for Christmas.

Not bad advise, actually. Being at a psyche ward during a nervous breakdown was an extremely positive event for me. I've met some really kind people in my time there, and it really come out in a much healthier place.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

You may be able to go to a psych ward and get them to set you up on an outpaitent service.

That way, you don't have to stay there for Christmas.

I'm okay now. It was a combination of the Ambien plus not sleeping I think, plus stress.

Pretty wild I was having brief conversations with people who weren't there. Heh.

 

[mitch1971]

If she did, though....

you'd be

 

[BennyBlanco]

I wouldn’t take this lightly OP. NeoGAF is probably not the place to ask for advice but you could be having some sort of episode.

 

[Diddy X]

Sounds like Schizophrenia.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Talking to yourself, not particularly crazy.

Talking to GAF? You're fucking nuts!

Anyway think happy thoughts:

 

[BennyBlanco]

Darkmakaimura you ok bro?

 

[near]

Pretty wild I was having brief conversations with people who weren't there. Heh.

 

[Draugoth]

Lack of sleeping can be fatal. It's well documented your body will go into forced sleep while you are awake if you decide to skip sleeping for 4-5 days.

I also take ambien. My ambien hallucinations are usually vertigo and lights floating as balls.

But last time i started cursing myself at the mirror, eventually got tired and went to sleep.

Doctors recomend that after taking Ambien you go to bed. The medication is know to cause sonambulism, hallucinations and memory loss. You shouldn't be on your phone after taking it.

I heard about a guy that took ambien, decided to browse his phone and woke up next morning with a pet ferret he bought but didn't remember, and my doctor told me a story about another guy that took ambien, went to the bathroom take a shit and woken up on the toilet by his histerical wife because he sent dick picks to everyone in his contact list.

 

[John Bilbo]

So how's it going today?

 

[Trilobit]

Lack of sleeping can be fatal. It's well documented your body will go into forced sleep while you are awake if you decide to skip sleeping for 4-5 days.

I also take ambien. My ambien hallucinations are usually vertigo and lights floating as balls.

But last time i started cursing myself at the mirror, eventually got tired and went to sleep.

Doctors recomend that after taking Ambien you go to bed. The medication is know to cause sonambulism, hallucinatins and memory loss. You shouldn't be on your phone after taking it.

I heard about a guy that took ambien, decided to browse his phone and woke up next morning with a pet ferret, and my doctor told me a story about another guy that took ambient, went to the bathroom take a shit and was woke up on the toilet by his histerical wife because he sent dick picks to everyone in his contact list.

My doctor was very adamant that I take it basically when Iwas in bed and going to sleep. I thought the issue was just that I could stumble around otherwise, but if they'd told me that those things could happen I'd been even more careful.

 

[wondermega]

Welp, sounds like it's off to behuhu the ol' rub hive

 

[digital_ghost]

So to try to make this as short as possible, I've been under a lot of stress and I haven't been sleeping well.

My Ambien prescription is finally due and I picked it up last night. Now before I even get home to take my medications, I'm experimenting all sorts of crazy stuff. Most of it is normal though but just people acting what's differently or out of character.

When I got back home, I just did the usual of putting everything down then showering and laying in bed and the hallucinations and the weird visions haven't stopped.

Now disclaimer is that I've never done hallucinogenic drugs before. So I have no reference to go by as far as that is but I am experiencing some wild hallucinations that do include audio hallucinations. So yes I can hear things that may or may not be true within the reality around me.

I think this is a combination of lack of sleep for the last 3 days or 4 days as well as trying to take some Ambien this morning to help me sleep, which it did it and normally it works.

Your not really communicating on a forum with us. Your actually giving a speech butt ass naked. We are the people in audience shocked and in horror .

 

[Puscifer]

Oh man I have a chance to post these

 

[Trilobit]