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[irrational]

I can understand the strange fascination with Ambien. My wife was prescribed it one time. She would take it and then soon after want to have sex. Mind blowing sex (for me) every time. She was insatiable and wanted to do things way outside her norm. But the next day she had absolutely no memory of any of it. That weirded me out and I encouraged her to stop taking them. Though to be honest I wouldn't mind one or two of the ambien fueled sex sessions a year. Absolutely mind blowing, but also exhausting.

[rdevsrex → irrational]

That really makes you question how much free will we have, if a drug can produce that kind of behavior and affect short term memory.

But more fascinating still is what functionality in the brain even enables that.

[foxhop → rdevsrex]

I'm of the school of thought that we have at 2 minds, my guess is this drug inhibits our egoic executive mind and our unconscious mind takes over.

[Nexxius → foxhop]

I've been witness two sleepwalking events with different peopl. Both were fully conversant and aware of their surroundings, they just did odd things and we assumed they were drunk. Later we found out about the ambien and how neither had any recollection of the event.

[mensetmanusman → rdevsrex]

It’s often a question of how much.

Do we have free will when sleeping? No. There goes a large part of our life.

How about when zoned out? No.

Do we ever have free will? Atheists looking at the scientific evidence argue that we never have free will.