Sweet Dreams or Terrible Nightmares? 7 Ambien Tales Ranging From The Absurd To The Horrifying

4. Artsy fartsy

There is a whole subset of Ambien users who claim that the sleep aid enhances their creativity and improves the quality of their art.

Many of these Ambien artists even have blogs to showcase their unique creations. (AMBIENTARTS is a personal favorite.

Vice did a 2015 story on the phenomena of people feeling that Ambien enriches their art. In the piece, addiction psychiatrist Dr. Alkesh Patel said of the drug:

“Ambien is a sedative hypnotic, which means basically it’s a sleep aid. It is very helpful in the treatment of insomnia. It’s been used often times by patients because it decreases what we call “sleep latency,” which means the time from when you take the pill to the time you actually fall asleep, and that’s where most of the evidence is for Ambien. Ambien works really well in a lot of people, but you can have these types of adverse side effects. Everyone is different. The people who have reported [creative tendancies] or bizarre behaviors like sleep walking or bouts of increased energy are having what we call the “paradoxal reaction,” when sedatives do the total opposite of what you expect them to do.”