The drunker I get, the less thinking I do for before acting. Still kinda in control but more easily swayed by myself to do whatever tf.

it’s crazy how many people are confidently answering “you never lose control from alcohol” when they’ve obviously never been blackout drunk.

like, sure, there’s definitely a varying degree of effects to some point but when you black out (drink so much that you don’t remember it) you lose control of your actions. when you black out you do things that you would never do sober.

most people don’t black out more than a few times in their life because it happens, they go “wow that was awful I sure don’t want to do that again” and then don’t. they are the lucky ones. then you have people like me (alcoholics) who want to be anything but themselves and want to feel anything but what they’re feeling so desperately that it happens a lot.

no it’s not just “lowered inhibitions so you do what you want to do sober but stop yourself from doing,” your body goes into autopilot. it’s more like sleepwalking than staying up so late that you start feeling loopy once it hits that point. for an example, the first time I ever blacked out I tried to convince my mom that my dugout (block of wood for holding weed and pipe) would open the hotel room door… that’s not “lowered inhibitions” that’s a brain that’s not working

now I’m a little annoyed by the amount of confidently incorrect in this thread but on a serious note I’m glad so many of y’all don’t get it. alcoholism is a terrible affliction that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. it’s a bad time, through and through.

i think a part of why there are so many wrong answers though is because of the word “responsible.” you’re responsible for what you do while blackout drunk because you are the one who got blackout drunk. nobody else poured the booze down your throat for you. so, while what you do in that state is out of your control, you are entirely responsible for it.

I have a particularly weird view on this so I don’t know how helpful it will be, but I share it when people discuss alcohol.

You, as a person, are basically an imaginary construct given meaning by consistency. Your friends trust you because you consistently behave in a way that says they can trust you. The pattern of behaviours is you because the physical parts swap out all the time. When you drink, you distort yourself a little, because it distorts the behaviour. Anyone who says it doesn’t is delusional. For some people, the distortion is minor. For others, it distorts them a great deal. The drunk you is always so distorted as to be essentially a different person, but one for whom you have total responsibility, because you ‘gave them the keys’ as it were. You are letting the funhouse mirror version of yourself take control of your body so you can be amused by the distortions. Everybody’s mirror is different, but they are all distorted. How much do you trust someone who is much like you, but distorted?

You still have complete control you just start to believe that you might actually do the things that are possible. So for example you don’t jump out of a window thinking you can fly but you do tell Wendy her eyes are like a cool breeze on a hot day and whenever you reach out you want her to be there. Then you sleep and forget it all and wake up sober and have flashbacks all day about what you said to your ex teacher that you just happened to bump into last night. You have those flashbacks for the rest of your life.

The best description I’ve come up with:

Alcohol makes you act without thinking, and cannabis makes you think without action.

Drunken actions can be understandable, but you’re still responsible for them. If you set a valuable antique on the edge of the roof, and a stiff breeze knocks it to the ground, it’s still your fault. Sure, you didn’t cause the wind that made it fall, but if you hadn’t put it in such a stupid place, it would still be in one piece.

Most drunk accidents are exactly that. You don’t really think things through like you normally would, so you can get up and sing karaoke without worrying about embarrassing yourself and talk to people that intimidate you, or things get misplaced or broken, or you agree to temptations that you would otherwise resist.

alcohol is a depressent and like any drug it depends on how much you have had, your weight, and metabolism. Basicaly how much you have had vs how much it effects you. You might hear the term take the edge off. This is like a first stage. Depressent effect the nervous system and so it makes you less noticable of things which is relaxing. Next you have buzzed. Buzzed effects your reasoning and you are less inhibited. Assuming you where drinking in a good frame of mind and your atmosphere is good you get more chill and relaxed and also say stuff off the top of my brain more and just are easier being happy to be happy. Once you really drunk your senses and your sense of time is effected. Your decision making ability is way down and moving around is kinda clumsy but you usually find it kinda fun and funny. You likely have little to no filter at this point. At this point forward you may puke from over drinking. Then you get to stumbling or falling down drunk. Your now not walking properly and maybe you can a bit if you concentrate enough but your ability to concentrate is pretty gone. Your getting sleepy but often do not want to. Your like a kid or a golden retriever obsessed with any shiny or whatever. Next you will fall asleep and if you drank to much to fast you might go unconcious or you can even die but you have to be pretty irresponsible in your drinking to get to that point. People who drink a lot for a long time can function often times more at the various stages which gets them to drink more which makes it even more dangerous. you might hear alchol before beer and your in the clear, booze before beer and your going to lose. This is because most people, most of the time, want to get anywhere from mildly buzzed to mildly drunk. Having harder stuff early jump starts getting to there but if you don’t go to lighter fair you will overshoot and end up barfing or having a horrible hangover. While again it is highly dependent on the individual the rule of thumb is a person detoxifies about one light drink like a beer per hour. Theoretically one shot but its hard to nurse that for an hour. So the person goes to drinking beer at a slow pace. The other option of course is to just drink many beers an hour and then slow down.

Lol, buncha normies up in this thread.

Being drunk can be, and often is, a lot of fun. There’s a reason why it’s probably one of the oldest and most frequently used mind alterants in history.

That said, getting drunk by itself is a pretty neutral, if not unpleasant, experience. What it does do is make everything else you’re doing more enjoyable. The music is hitting harder, the person you’re talking to is more attractive, YOU’RE more attractive, the joke you told is funnier, etc. It amplifies all the emotions, and since it also reduces anxiety, often the whole of those emotions experiences are positive.

Creativity flows, free assocation is strong, your mood is expansive and gregarious.

As for how much control you have, it’s like a sliding scale. At the light end, you’re still pretty much in complete control of your facilities, though you may do things because your mood is better. As one becomes drunker a multitude of things happen that undermine one’s self-control until there is very little or none left and people run on a kind of autopilot that is a combination of basic human instincts and the behavioral patterns developed over their lifetime.

There is a type of mental fog that gets stronger as the scale moves farther into drunkeness. This fog begins to inhibit higher order thinking until you can’t make any decisions besides satisfying the most immediate physical needs, or deep seated psychological drives.

Anyway, it’s a lot of fun until it isn’t.

It’s such a hard question to answer because it varies by person, by dose, by context, etc.

It’s not like you are there at the time feeling “oh I’m only 80% in control of myself here” there’s no little sober pilot inside your flesh-mech running things, the person trying to determine how in control they are is impaired by alcohol.

if i notice myself trying to convince myself that i’m fine to drive, i don’t drive

IDK if it’s just because I am autistic and have adhd but I never felt like it dropped mg inhibitions as is commonly described. I feel, mentally, exactly the same as when I am sober. It’s my body that ends up feeling different, and it’s only pleasant for a little while before I feel sick as fuck and get the spins (feeling like you’re spinning around even when you’re laying down). The physical numbness is kinda nice tho.

I think the best way to describe is that you still have total control, but infinite courage. So you might do very stupid stuff that you kind of always wanted to do but never dared to.

To answer both questions, it really depends how drunk you are. To the extreme of black out, what is the experience like? You wake up somewhere hungover or still a bit drunk not knowing how you got there and not able to remember anything past a certain moment. How much control did you have? Not much. In that state any flying by emotion or idea can really take charge regardless of how bad it is. Most don’t remember doing or saying any of the things they did or said.

Being drunk doesn’t change who you are or make your body perform actions that you didn’t choose (other than digestive system side effects like puking). It’s always you in control of your body, making choices to do things or to not do things. It won’t make a good person turn bad. It can make you less inhibited and make it harder to think clearly, but that’s not going to make you forget how to be decent.

get drunk.

it’s different for everyone. some people lose total control, others don’t. everyone has different chemistry and body mass and alcohol affects them differently both physically and emotionally.

generally drunk people are not falling down or slurring words… for most people who aren’t alcoholics being that drunk is dangerous and is a sign of alcohol poisoning.

alcohol mostly makes you more of what you are. so if you are a shitty aggressive irresponsible person, alcohol will enhance that. if you are friendly and nice it will make you friendly and nicer.

for some people it ‘flips’ their personality… but that’s because they are hiding who they are on the inside often due to the fact they massively overcompensate.

I get chattier, friendlier and then really tired. Then I fall asleep.

It also loosens inhibitions but I’ve never done anything illegal/immoral whilst drunk