What's the science on getting blackout drunk?

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: HombrePequeno

Originally posted by: Chryso
Basically you keep drinking until you pass out.

When you don't pass out it's referred to as 'time traveling.'

Dave Attell is awesome!

I don't think I've heard that Dave Attell joke...

"Is she crazy like it says on her bracelet or is she just reading off my bedsheets?"

I'm gonna go download some Dave Attell.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
?As the person continues to drink, he becomes increasingly intoxicated until he reaches a point where brain function is so inhibited that the brain cannot commit events to memory ? a state commonly referred to as alcohol intoxication delirium or ?black out?,? says Prof Willie Pienaar of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Stellenbosch.

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While I'm sure the alcohol has something to do with it, other "sober" situations can work the same way.

I've forgotten entire conversations I've had with my wife if we are talking before we go to bed. Your brain just doesn't fully "commit" like you mentioned. Same thing with people before they faint. They sometimes can't remember what happened. And same thing with concussions.

If your brain shuts down without warning (like passing out from alcohol, fainting, ect) it fails to finish "writing" whatever event happened immediately before it.

Buffer underrun error FTL.

Happened to me in the Philippines. Not good times.

 

[TwiceOver]

Moe: "A splash of Jagger, add slow gin, triple sec, quadruple sec, gunk from a dog's eye, absolut-pickle, the red stripe from Aquafresh, and the venom of the Louisiana labota-moth -- then stir with a home pregnancy test until it turns positive"

 

[scott916]

It truly is one of the strangest things in life to see yourself on video acting like an ass literally hours before and having NO recollection of it whatsoever.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
?As the person continues to drink, he becomes increasingly intoxicated until he reaches a point where brain function is so inhibited that the brain cannot commit events to memory ? a state commonly referred to as alcohol intoxication delirium or ?black out?,? says Prof Willie Pienaar of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Stellenbosch.

Google

That name has to be shens :laugh:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
I've forgotten entire conversations I've had with my wife if we are talking before we go to bed. Your brain just doesn't fully "commit" like you mentioned.

BAHAHAHA, your brain decides the conversation wasn't that interesting after all and rolls back the transaction

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: scott916
It truly is one of the strangest things in life to see yourself on video acting like an ass literally hours before and having NO recollection of it whatsoever.

That does make me glad my last blackout was before digital cameras were common.

 

[themisfit610]

Yeah, it's happened to me once or twice... But I used to drink to the point of vomiting a lot more often..

It's weird, some of my friends blacked out every weekend when we were in college, but I never did until about 6 months ago. I usually get the spins and end up puking before I get to blackout stage.

My theory is that you have to 1) eat a lot of food, and 2) drink at a medium pace, consistently, all night. Hard alcohol makes it quicker, since it's easier to drink a lot of liquor and not even realize it until it gets on top of you.

I've never forgotten an entire evening, but I have forgotten a few hours...

LOL apparently one evening I came home from the bars and my friend walked in to my room and found me sitting in front of the computer, tearing SATA cables out. He was like "DUDE! WTF ARE YOU DOING", and I looked at him with wide eyes and proceeded to babble some inane gibberish, then announce that he was an asshole and that I was going to sleep. I didn't, I ended up getting the spins and vomiting... but I have only the very slightest memory of the entire event... My computer was pretty screwed up the next day... I managed to break 2 SATA cables. Fail.

I no longer allow myself to work on my computer when I'm that wasted....

~MiSfit.

 

[alkemyst]

most do this for three reasons:

first is as a kid because they CAN drink...they drink as much as possible

second is common both young and old, to do things they wouldn't do sober. Problem is they usually don't remember what fun they had.

third is depression based, they want to forget their problems and alcohol does a wonderful job of that albeit with a liver/kidney damaging side-affect.

I can drink a ton, but I don't do it so quickly that I get much passed a little slurred speech. I get a nice comfy feeling going and enjoy my drinks. I am not the kind of guy that chokes down 10 shots of a whiskey they hate just to get drunk.