Blackout drinking - do you ever get the memory back?

Naffa said:
Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to drink yourself into such a state?
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Not very..

The only time i have ever been in that state was being in the same pub from 7 until 1 in the morning.. Didn't hit me until i left to go somewhere else (which im not sure whether i did or not), ended up at home though, so all is good in the world. :)
 
yeah it happened to me once, when me and my mate having vodka shots and i passed out and never made it out at the end. Couldnt remember anything at all lol
 
Slyman2k4 said:
Immaturity and alcohol never mix well but always seem to come hand in hand. 'Kids' just can't handle their liquor. :)
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Immaturity and alcohol do not mix well no :rolleyes:

But assuming that you mean young people in general by 'kids' some of them can handle their liquor, they just have to slip up once or twice to learn their limit :D

Of course, most don't :p
 
I think you can get very small portions back.

About 10 years ago I went out at NYE and apparently I was thrown out of a club that I couldn't even remember going in (bear in mind I am not the sort of person that ever gets thrown out of anywhere...). I swore blind that we didn't go in there (and I could remember things that had happened later that night such as eating a takeaway in the kitchen with a friend). But then some time later I remembered being frogmarched down the stairs of that club by the bouncers telling them that they didn't need to hold me and that I was leaving... :/
 
I've only done it once, passed out on the sofa thinking I was going to sleep and woke up the next morning (afternoon?) with the taste of sick in my mouth feeling like **** :p.
 
Nearly got raped on a lads holiday by two transvestites after I passed out in a bush allegedly. Remember being in a club and then some walking home but that's about it.

Of course I'll never know if my mates are BSing but when it's been brought up they seem pretty sincere. Naturally felt pretty foolish the next day. Still got smashed everyday for rest of the week though.
 
Was at a friends 18th, I was 17 at the time. Being all young and clever I nailed 6 double vodkas on the table which weren't all mine. After that can't remember a thing till the next morning. That was 11 years ago, still nothing.
 
Pretty much the reason i packed in drinking for 10 years.

Started to become too common, id leave the pub and wind up home somehow having no recall of doing so.

Final straw was waking up in a pool of vomit and seeing my car on the drive while about 5 in the morning.

Now i know i couldn't have driven it back, chances are i tossed my keys to some stranger/

And of all the times this happened, never recalled any of it. I once fronted up the next night and did ask how what when, she told me i was up on the bar out of my tree singing my heart out... all day drinking, on the back of an allday/night before... needless to say another wake up call:(
 
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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It happens, no need to patronise everyone mister high and mighty.
 
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acme15 said:
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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I start getting flashbacks of such events about 6years after they happened.... having had no memory of them happening up until that point. I've had to phone people to verify and/or apologise... funny really :).
 
acme15 said:
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?
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There are no memories to "get back", alcohol prevents memories being formed in the first place.
 
Energize said:
There are no memories to "get back", alcohol prevents memories being formed in the first place.
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That's what friends are for...reminding us of the shame :)

After a particularly hard night at uni i woke in a strange bed alone and naked. Shocked and confused i rose quickly, threw my clothes on and did a runner. Calling my friend after exiting, I discovered him at his flat down the road in bed and groaning heavily. When he tried to get up he passed out. He had jumped off the second floor balcony the previous night to impress, and his leg was a real state. The halls guard had found him passed out on the floor and dragged him back up to bed. I took him to hospital and the X-ray revealed his tibia has gone through his talus like a hot knife through butter. My evenings events were still a blur. Several weeks later a randomer off the course told me that he had fiound me asleep on the manchester canal and dragged me home. I have no memory of a sore arse. Thankyou guardian angel for looking after this idiot during uni!
 
I suffer terribly from memory loss after drinking. But it depends what drink! I can drink Vodka all night and wake up the next morning fine with full memory.

But, if I drink beer, ale and cider through the course of a night. Which is always the case due to my regular bars. If the night ends up being a big night, I often have no memory, never get it back either. Maybe snippets.

It's not nice :(
 
Energize said:
There are no memories to "get back", alcohol prevents memories being formed in the first place.
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That can be the case. Alcohol can disrupt all sorts of neural processes, including transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory. It's like a connection being broken between a small cache on a data capturing device and main storage - everything may seem to be functioning, but the data is gone.

Recalling memories later might or might not be real. We tend to think of our memories as being like recording devices, but they're not. Much of what we "remember" is created on the fly as we "remember" it. So if, for example, you're told repeatedly that you ate a donner kebab from a particular shop, you might well "remember" going into the shop and ordering it even if you were never really there at all. Once a few details are in place and wrongly filed as a memory, your own mind will create all the details, based on what you would expect to have happened.

It's worrying easy to do this to people, even without intending to. It's not like you need to torture and brainwash them (there are five lights). Creating false memories is such an integral part of everyone's mind that it takes only the slightest nudging to direct it.

For example, merely showing a Disneyland advert featuring Bugs Bunny to people who visited Disneyland years ago resulted in a large minority of them remembering meeting Bugs Bunny there, to the extent of clearly remembering talking to him. Bugs Bunny isn't a Disney character, so there's nobody dressed as Bugs Bunny working at Disneyland.

Ah, here's a reference to it:

http://www.unisci.com/stories/20012/0613011.htm

30% success rate with just that. 40% if they also just stuck a cardboard cutout of Bugs Bunny in the background in the room the people were in.

EDIT: There are some coppers on here, aren't there? I bet they've seen this first hand. Ask half a dozen witnesses for statements, get half a dozen different accounts and that's for something that's just happened with witnesses who are sober.
 
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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 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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:eek::D
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Slyman2k4 said:
Clearly you can't if you're on occasion, having blackouts :p

Immaturity and alcohol never mix well but always seem to come hand in hand. 'Kids' just can't handle their liquor. :)
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I'm not entirely sure I follow what could very generously be termed as your 'logic' on that one, but I suppose everybody is entitled to an opinion, no matter how flawed it may be. :)
 
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