Trip Report - Eszopiclone I had a pretty chill mindset at the time, just wanting to do something recreationally to pass the boring time here while I live with my mom. Basically, I wanted to get high. No special preparations were made, just straight up took the goddamn thing and sat on my PC.
Eszopiclone
Well-documented
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki, PubChem)
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- toxicity data (PsychonautWiki, PubChem)
Aliases: Eszop, Lunesta
Summary
Eszopiclone is a Schedule IV controlled substance in the United States. Tolerance develops rapidly within a couple of weeks of daily use. Abrupt cessation after prolonged use can cause severe withdrawal symptoms; gradual tapering or cross-over to long-acting benzodiazepines like diazepam is recommended.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 0.5-1mg | 1-3mg | 3-6mg | 6mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Sources· 1 of 1 ladders not fully identified
Oral
Dose ladder — Light, Common: not identified · Strong, Heavy: dose.wikiOnset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 10-20 min | 30-90 min | 3-5 hrs | 6-10 hrs |
Tolerance
Build-up
develops over 1–4 weeks of regular use
Reset
Falls after you stop, at a rate that varies from person to person. If you've been using regularly, cut down gradually with medical help rather than stopping suddenly.
No tolerance chart. Our decay curves for these drugs were estimates, and a curve can make tolerance look longer-lasting than it is, which is the dangerous direction.
How fast tolerance to these drugs fades after a break has not been measured well enough to draw, so don't count on a dose you used to take still being safe: after time off, start with a much smaller amount and don't use alone. Mixing sedatives with each other, with alcohol or with opioids sharply raises the risk of a fatal overdose. If you've been using regularly, don't stop suddenly: withdrawal from benzodiazepines, alcohol or GHB/GBL can cause seizures or delirium, so get medical help to cut down gradually.
Sources: FRANK: benzodiazepines · Alcohol and Drug Foundation: GHB · FDA 2020: benzodiazepine boxed warning · FDA 2019: gabapentinoids and breathing · NHS: alcohol use disorder
Effects
Aggregated from 14 single-substance Erowid experience reports; 5 Erowid reports where another drug was taken too are left out
Each bar shows the share of analyzed reports whose text mentions that effect — a mention is not always a first-hand experience (fear of an effect or something witnessed can count). Mentions saying the effect did not happen are left out; that check reads keywords, so it can miss some. The shaded band on a bar, and the small range after its number, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind. Fewer reports, wider band. Tap or hover any number for details. The second value is the Bluelight extractor's per-effect confidence; a dash means the row is Erowid-derived, which has no confidence measurement.
Too few reports for bars: these effects come from 14 single-substance Erowid reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?
Effect glossary — · full glossary
Positive Effects 5
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Adverse Effects 2
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Combinations
Cross-Check Eszopiclone with another substanceCommunity Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, Bluelight, and Dose.wiki. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance. Tags summarise each author's own verdict — how reports are classified.
Erowid 8 reports 5 neutral 3 cautionary visit
I have had difficulty sleeping for eight years or so, and for the same amount of time I have been prescribed a myraid of medications, Temazapam, Alprazolam, Lorazepam. My sleep problem is real, but I present it to my doctors as worse than it really is in order to aquire higher dosages and more prescriptions.
Lunesta kills my emotion, except for (to a small extent) happiness and laughter. I found it to be a rather disturbing experience. The first time I took it I was awake like usual, hoping for a decent nights sleep before the finals I thought I had the next day.
After getting these from a docter for sleeping problems as well as sonata and ambien. I took 2 lunesta which had 2mg each (4mg). I was outside my house Hookin my MAF intake kit I was just getting done when I thought for sure my g/f walked up behind me and I started to say hey looked back and it was nothing I also felt...
+0::3mg +1::1.5mg (1/2 pill) Took 3mg at 8pm and another 1/2 (yes it tastes bad) at around 9pm ET. At 1st no noticable effects. by +15m things start to seem weird. Thoughts are slightly different maybe a little more interesting and laid back, altho not psychedelic. This drug hit extremely fast.
Ever since I could remember, I had a liking for sleeping medication. From over the counter sleeping aids to seditives like Ambien. So when I saw the commercials on TV about Lunesta, I got interested in what it had to offer. I was over at a friends house who lived with her parents.
[Erowid Note: Intravenous (IV) injection of crushed pills/tablets can be very dangerous due to unknown substances, binders, and fillers present. Any substance injected directly into the blood stream should be very pure.
Being on Antidepressants has given me some insomnia (I blame Paxil, which my body is now addicted to, yay withdrawals), so I decided to ask the Doc about sleep-aid. I had Ambien first, which worked very well, but being on a weird insurance setup I had to pay full price. $100/bottle is a bit much per month.
Bluelight 2 threads 2 neutral visit
i just took 10mg of it with no tolerance. what can i expect? anyone have any experience. ive took like 40mg of ambien before and didnt find it that great. -- After about 1 hour: I feel relaxed and calm. Almost as if in a benzo nice dreamy state. Im a very big benzo abuser vals/xan. So these seem like a nice treat.
I took two 3mg lunestas (6mg) in the morning to see if i could hallucinate. About 30 minutes after I took them I was staring at this paper on the fridge and it started warping and waving. I looked at my cat playing on the floor and the carpet did the same thing.
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