Blackout drinking - do you ever get the memory back?

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If you go out and drink far too much, as i'm sure most of us have at some point, and you end up waking at home (or god knows where else) several hours later, with no recollection of what happened, do you ever get the memory back?

It happened to me for the first time a few months ago, completely by accident infact (i'll explain if you ask :p) and I still have no clue what happened that night, apart from what my friends tell me. But a few of them have experienced similar things before, and remembered vaguely what happened a day or two later.

Nothing bad happened, i know that much. I'm just curious if it is normal to *never* remember. :p

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It has now been established that this is normal, and I will probably either never get my memory back due to the alcohol 'causing it to not be recorded properly in the first place' or I will remember a few snippets further down the line :o

Feel free to continue sharing your opinions/experiences of blackout drinking or drinking in general though, there are some brilliant replies here :D
 
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no.. only happened once and the only thing i remember is a chick saying she will bang me and thats it.. woke up in morning in her bed with no memory of the place or what happened! i saw pictures later on and stuff she told me but thats about it.. was ~4 years ago.. hated every bit of it!

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I don't know how people get in that kind of state, had the odd night where some of the details are a little fuzzy but never had an occasion where I can't remember anything at all. Tho mostly I drink whiskey so maybe it happens more if your getting drunk on beer or cider or whatever.
 
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I was in a rush to get to a party because I was running a bit late, and I was dividing vodka shots between two bottles to mix with sprite.

I cant remember how many shots worth of vodka I intended to *divide* between the bottles, but I managed to put that amount in *both* bottles.

Not realising my mistake until I saw the vodka bottle the next day - and seeing that there was a considerable amount more missing than I thought, at said party I assumed that I would be fine to drink both bottles. As it turned out, drinking that, combined with the few cans of cider that I was chucked before I even broke out the vodka sprite, turned out to be a mistake. :D
 
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grudas said:
no.. only happened once and the only thing i remember is a chick saying she will bang me and thats it.. woke up in morning in her bed with no memory of the place or what happened! i saw pictures later on and stuff she told me but thats about it.. was ~4 years ago.. hated every bit of it!
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Not good. But I suppose it could have been worse :)
 
Apparently if you drink too much in a place you are unfamiliar with, you get drunk quicker and you can black out more easily. I have no source, though.
 
yhack said:
Apparently if you drink too much in a place you are unfamiliar with, you get drunk quicker and you can black out more easily. I have no source, though.
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Thats interesting. I dont quite know how that would work though, since its all related to chemicals in your body.

Maybe its easier to simulate the memory of what happened in a place you are familiar with when you are told what happened, but it isnt a true memory?
 
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yhack said:
A quick Google found this: http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/1614-alcohol-tolerance-lower-in-unfamiliar-settings.html, I can't seem to find the actual study though.
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Cheers, thats fair enough, but I will admit that while I an open to the possibility of this being true, I don't believe the theory. The article says "When you drink in a certain setting, your central nervous system begins to anticipate receiving alcohol" but then surely if you go out with the intention of drinking, your body should become quote "hyperexcited and counter some of alcohol's effects" regardless of setting..? The study involved quote "completing computer-based tasks designed to measure inhibitions — for example, words appeared on screen and students were instructed to press a button whenever a "happy word" appeared, but were told to hold back from pressing it when a "sad word" appeared." but surely if the results differ depending on setting, it could quite simply be down to feeling more relaxed in the familliar setting, and more pressured or nervous in the unfamilliar setting?

Then again, what do I know :D

Cheers for the link :)
 
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I went to a d&b night many many years ago and woke up in a bush on the side of a railway track when the sun came up, walked home crawled into bed and a few hours later my mate knocked on my bedroom door he woke up in the same place but had a broken wrist.

Neither of us can remember what happened.
 
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I went to a d&b night many many years ago and woke up in a bush on the side of a railway track when the sun came up, walked home crawled into bed and a few hours later my mate knocked on my bedroom door he woke up in the same place but had a broken wrist.

Neither of us can remember what happened.
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That could have turned out much much worse. Glad you were both OK! (relatively speaking) :eek:

It's easy to see how drunk people manage to get themselves killed really. Very unfunny stuff.
 
I used to black out every night when I drank, and 6 years later it has never come back besides the snippets you get that morning. At the time I thought it was perfectly normal!
 
I've had it a few times over the years, worse one was in the late 80s waking up in hospital in Corfu after over doing a drink called a Zombie for 100 drachma each. The most recent was about 3 years ago on a work night out and I only have one memory from the night, but everyone else has total recall of everything I got up to and still remind me to this day. So embarrassing.

What always impresses me is getting home, no idea how, and all doors locked with keys safely where you normally leave them.
 
I usually get some memorys back but its only clips even after been shown videos of what you did still can't remember
 
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