if by chance, you don't know what ambien is, it's a pretty strong sleeping medication. I used to take it every night for sleep but lately i stopped using it because i didn't feel that i needed it.

so sunday night i was a little stressed and couldn't fall asleep. i took an ambien around midnight and went to bed. i woke up the next night at 11:30 (or should i say, i snapped out of my sleepwalking episode) and i was sitting at a 1/2 Omaha table at mohegan sun. I had no idea how i got there.

freaked out, i walked out of the card room and i took a wild guess that if i drove, i would be parked in the top floor of the parking garage (because that is where i always park). well sure enough, i step out of the elevator and my car is just chilling next to some cars (i was not even in a parking spot). I have no idea how long i was there, but i do know that i have $600 fewer dollars in my bank account, and i took it all out at an atm at mohegan sun.

so i went home and immediately disposed of all of my ambien, determined to never take it again.

i don't even know if this story is funny or not. i'm legit freaked out.

more scary than funny

good idea not ever taking that again

edit: also it's good you lost $600 instead of winning like $1500 or you'd be blacking out on purpose from now on

run better?

I read the OP thinking the title was Ambien and Obama do not mix.

I know a few people that take Ambien and I have never heard anything like that.

Definitely not funny and I would be freaked out if it had been me. Thank your lucky stars you 1.) Didn't crash your car on the way to the casino and 2.) woke up before you blew through your whole bankroll.

I have had trouble sleeping for years now and have never found anything which worked without literally knocking me out and leaving me tired and groggy the next day. I've been considering trying Alteril, because I'm pretty sure it's just natural ingredients like melatonin and triptaphan.

There are some critics of Alteril though because it does lack some ingredients which could increase its effectiveness:

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� May help regulate sleep and wake cycle
� Formula includes Lemon Balm and Hops

</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD>Negatives</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><SPAN class=eleven> � Does not contain Cysteine Peptide to restore glutathione levels
� Does not contain Vitamin B12 to help release Melatonin earlier
� Amount of Melatonin used in Alteril is not disclosed at this time
� No longer available on this retail site, and the reason for this lack of availability is not provided

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The above is an excerpt from a Google search to get some reviews of Alteril. Just thought I'd suggest it as something that might help you without possibly causing the sleepwalking like the ambien.

Man I love me some Ambien. Never came close to driving, but had some fun times.


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I took an ambien and went to bed like 20 minutes later. The next morning my wife says "what got into you last night?" I was confused. She said we had so crazy, wild sex. I didn't remember a thing. I felt raped.

Like a year ago I took an ambien at the start of an OT tourney not expecting to last very long. 2� hours later I think I took 2nd place. I couldn't even see my cards anymore (I'm sure that probably helped me).

I took one a few months back and went to bed. My wife had a cold and kept coughing and I thought I would never fall asleep. I got up to go sleep in out guest bedroom. I woke up a few hours later and I was still in the hallway.

When I first started taking them I took one and my wife said the dog had to go out. I had taken one like 25 minutes earlier but she didn't know that. I took the dog out and I remember her taking a piss. Like a � hour later the wife came outside and I was in one of the deck chairs sleeping and the dog was at the door waiting to come in. It was warm out so she left me there. I had like 20 mosquito bites on me the next morning.

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Wow that's pretty scary. Hopefully you didn't lose anything else.

My wife had a similiar experience.

She took one the night before we were traveling with our kids to Tampa via plane. I woke her up about 7am and she was a barely functioning zombie for the next 8 hours. We went the airport, got on our flight, arrived in Tampa and I basically had to guide her the whole way.

She snapped out of it about 4pm and had no clue how we got to Tampa. She obviously never took Ambien again.

lol how is weed illegal and this stuff is legal?

you mean she passes out hard