Strange drug. It’s unlike zopiclone and Ambien in that it doesn’t produce unusual thoughts or logical implications which wouldn’t occur while sober. It has some of zopiclone's effect (to a lesser extent) where you’ll feel sober for a minute and impaired the next. No metallic taste in mouth whatsoever. Moderate immediate forgetfulness—where you’ll think of something and forget what you were thinking about a few seconds later. Way more muscle relaxing than zopiclone (not sure if its actually muscle relaxing or just body parts feeling heavier), maybe at the level of a benzo or even more. More of a “high” feeling. Probably good for sleeping but not pushing you to sleep in the way zopiclone can. So more of a physical impairment and less of a mental impairment. More emotionally blunting than euphoric.

A good comparison I think would be a shorter acting flualprazolam (similar anxiolytic and hypnotic effects) with more of a physical high feeling.
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Edit: It's been about 3 hours since the first dose and the effects have markedly decreased, so I want to revise the elimination half life to 2 hours or potentially even lower. t_max seems to have been overestimated as well, based on my gut feeling, so let's say 1 hour for t_max, possibly also lower. These parameters align more closely with Zaleplon, which itself has unusual pharmacokinetics with the half life being lower than the time to maximum plasma concentration (1.01h vs 1.1h). This is unfortunate, I was really hoping for a longer duration of action.

Would say it will have its use as an anxiolytic for some, and for these to be superior to benzodiazepines. About sedation I remained unsure. It has the signature of a downer, and probably the potential to cause "drunk" behaviour when dosed high enough, but there was no tiredness or urgency to sleep as I get with any and all benzos, severly limiting their use. At first I found it underwhelming, just to finish the bag in two weeks or so. Yeah, it's a recreational, and I'd call it safer than ethanol (ok, that one's easy).