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Vary between medications. Common side effects of sleep medications are:- Daytime drowsiness
- Dizziness, unsteadiness
- Memory problems
- Drugged feeling
- Confusion
- Nightmares, unusual dreams
- General feeling of discomfort or feeling unwell
- Complex sleep related behaviors including sleep-driving and less dangerous activities like making phone calls, cooking and eating food, or having sex have all been reported, -- all while still asleep.
- Life-threatening allergic reactions and severe facial swelling.
There appears to be a greater risk for dangerous activities such as sleep driving when sleep medications are taken with alcohol or other sedative medications.