Ambien Valentine Research Paper

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Livestrong.com states ; Ambien , a well known sleeping inhancancment

drug, is known to cause hallucinations. In the tv show: The Twilight zone

, in the episode called “ Nightmare at 20 000 feet ”, John Valentine was

a recent attendee at a mental institution, he had a mental breakdown in an

airplane a few months beforehand , and now in the tv show he is on a

Plane ride back from the institution on flight 360 with his wife trying to prove his sanity to her. When he is on the plane he takes “ sleeping pills ” which is supposed to help him sleep , but soon after , he sees a “gremlin” out the window. It was a hallucination . John Valentine’s hallucination of gremlins on the airplane ride was caused by drugs. Or more specifically
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No one else saw the gremlin, if he wasn't hallucinating, then more people would have saw it , he had other common side effects of the drugs, such as being anxious etc.. And finally , The drug is used to treat insomnia which is most probably what he had.

John valentine's trip on the airplane was full of a vivid hallucination caused by the sleeping pills that he had taken shortly before . and if the gremlin were at all real, then it wouldn't just disappear as soon as someone else besides him tried to look at it , and if it did “ go hide” it would be frankly impossible , of course that would be assuming that he's not Tom Cruise,
The average speed of an airplane according to ; hypertextbook.com , is 570 km \ h at crusing speed , and for some one to dismantal an airplane while winds are blowing at you at 570 km\ h is highly impressive , wich further proves the point that it cant be a real gremlin, and the only other reasonable explanation is hallutionation, and the only thing that could cause hallutionation , is the sleeping pills that he had previously

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