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> People can be surprisingly active and 'clear' when completely drunk. Yes. But how it works?
by modinfo 4y ago
> People can be surprisingly active and 'clear' when completely drunk.
Yes. But how it works?
- herbst 4y agoWhy wouldn't it work? Alkohol doesn't put you into a coma or sleep. Studies suggest that alcohol actively dangers your long and short term memory. Doing to much at once and loosing short term memory is just a obvious proof for that. According to this study* alcohol can interfer the ability to form memories * https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm
- dx034 4y agoI couldn't find a source, but I once heard that your brain works normally in that state (as much as it can being drunk), it just doesn't form long-term memories. So during the night everything is as always and you remember what you did ten minutes ago, the events just never cross the "barrier" to be stored longer term. This explanation makes a lot of sense to me and would explain exactly this behavior. However, I'm not an expert on that topic so no idea if that's correct.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoI suspect the main issue is with storing data from RAM to disk, not with the actual processing of said data. I once managed something similar, and people mentioned I was obviously drunk when I got to the destination, but I still managed to get there unassisted. No memory of it the day after, though.