Tome of Wisdom

Sleep medication linked to bizarre behaviour

My father used to take Ambien to help him sleep. He would take it and go to bed… and soon afterwards we would find him up again, wandering around the house in a daze. He had a glazed look in his eyes and jerky movements. Sometimes he would fix himself a snack and eat it, or sit down and read a book. If we tried talking to him to ask him why he wasn’t in bed, he would say in a dreamy, far-away voice, “You should take some Ambien. It’s good stuff.”

The scary thing is, when he woke up the next morning he wouldn’t remember doing any of this.

health, medicine, sleep