Blackout drinking - do you ever get the memory back?

Only ever done that once, I didn't drink a lot but it was not long after I was ill.

I remember getting to the party and then standing outside asking if I wanted to go home. As I went to walk away my mate said you can't leave with that and at that point realised I was wearing his poncho. I have no recollection of what happened between getting there and leaving, which must have been some where between 3 to 5 hours. That was 10 years a ago and I still don't know.

MW
 
Used to get this ALL the time, espically with vodka. Used to do some very stupid stuff when like it too.

Thankfully, I've not drank this year. Plan to keep it like that too. :)
 
This has happened to me many times, once I'm pretty sure I slept in a bush for a few hours before summoning the strength to get home.

It tends to be when I drink a lot of spirits in a short time, so rarely up town, but usually at peoples houses and stuff. It's bad when people tell you about arguments etc. and you seriously have no idea what they are on about. On the plus side I seem to turn in to a nice guy in blackout mode so it could be worse :p
 
This has only happened to me once, I haven't touched rum since. I was missing 12 hours when I got woke up, interesting.
 
Used to get this regularly as a kid always when drinking vast amounts of spirits quickly (pubs used to close at 11) got myself in all sorts of trouble and couldn't remember it, used to check my knuckles in the morning to see if i had been fighting...sad sad times used to make a right **** of myself mainly due to low self esteem issues, the main problem for me was while very drunk i used to indulge in class A drugs aswell.

Anyway i got out of that black hole before i went to prison or got badly hurt mainly due to getting a job where i was away from my "mates" for long periods and then finally meeting the right girl and starting a family.

I now know my limits and just go home when i have had enough but saying that i only go out once in a blue moon now.
 
This last happened to me 2 weeks ago, woke up completely naked in a friends, housemates, friends bed (female, just to clarify!).
 
Vodka is my nemesis:
1. Woken up in a strange whale's bed in Glasgow when I'd finished a yacht race in Greenock.

2. Got drinking with the Mexican Navy (brilliant chaps!) in Falmouth, missed curfew by 5 hours and managed to break BOTH ankles running back to the ship in the pouring rain. Then proceeded to fall between the boat and the dock when I couldn't climb the boarding ladder... amazaballs I didn't feel a thing until the next afternoon - heli-lifted off - oops!

3. Awoke on my sofa fully clothed, coat, gloves etc, minus jeans & undercrackers and one boot, 15 minutes before I was due to catch my train to Leeds. Left the flat in a panic to find my pants, boot and jeans in the corridor to my flat and the lift... I made the train and when I went to buy a drink I found £6500 of cash in my coat pocket, along with another £400 of Grosvenor chips - made for a brilliant trip for my friend's birthday, though I felt (and looked!) awful the whole weekend!

I don't touch vodka anymore and barely drink since becoming a resposible adult, though I could certainly do with a few more casino wins like that!
 
Generally speaking it happens when you drink a lot of alcohol in a short space of time as it affects how the brain stores short term memory. Hence why you struggle to remember anything as the brain can't store it for you to remember in the first place.
 
Yeah I've had this plenty of times. Heard about doing some pretty stupid **** when in that kind of state, and seen evidence on myself such as cuts and bruises.

Thankfully learnt my lesson over the years and know my limits these days :)
 
acme15 said:
Not good. But I suppose it could have been worse :)
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oh yeah totally.. i know how i got to that stage.. simply too many people dishing out drinks everywhere and shot-by-shot i was down..

i can actually feel when i had enough and that time i simply didn't for that reason alone(i probably had 6+ vodka shots in ~10mins) and then it hit me.
 
I've never experienced a black out as you call it. But if I drink too much I basically stop being able to hear things. Like, if someone is talking to me, no matter how hard I feel I'm consciously trying to understand what they're saying, I can't.
 
Naffa said:
Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to drink yourself into such a state? I don't understand how it could be even remotely enjoyable once, let alone repeating the experience multiple times... :o

I have this weird ability to know when I have had enough to drink, and to, wait for it... STOP. Wow. I have never blacked out from drinking too much. Cheers.
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In my case at least, it was unintentional and I have no desire to do it again :p
 
Shotgun_ned said:
Happened to me twice, once on JD and other time on vodka. I can't even smell either of them now without feeling ill.
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I drank a little too much Malibu a couple of nights ago. Bearing in mind that Malibu isnt really something to get drunk on, I have stopped having my evening malibu & ice cos it makes me feel nauseous at the moment :L

Yes I like malibu (or at least I will again soon) dont judge me! I like pina colada's too! :p
 
To be fair, I've only got to that state when drinking with a group of close friends, and the last blackout was 5 years ago. I now know my limit and hate not being in control of myself - 3 years tee-total (whilst I was on morphine), but still going out with friends has shown me what state people allow themselves to get in - horrific! 3-4 drinos seems to be my cut-off now! Age also means I pay even harder the following day!
 
I lost memory once due to alc and never got it back. 3 of us drank JD before we left the house, then we hit the Vodka Revolution. Tray of 6 for £8 (2004 prices), had a few rounds of that. The last thing I remember is drinking a shot that had skull and crossbones on the glass (chilli flavour) and that was it. Lights out at 10PM until 4AM as I was getting into bed to go to sleep. What I missed was going to the Arches nightclub in Glasgow, and apparently we had a takeaway afterwards. Missed all of that and the taxi home. I'm glad it only happened once but I still regret it because I don't go to Glasgow often and it was only the one time I've been to the Arches. No hangover (don't really do hangovers anyway) and we all drank again the following night.
 
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