Being Drunk

What's it like? How much time passes before you become sober again? Is there any home remedy (ie. black coffee) that you can use to help you become sober again? Maybe you Europeans can help me with this.

-Kylan

What's it like? It is different for people. Symptoms of drunkenness include: slurred speech, impaired balance, verbosity, double vision, flushed face, impaired judgment, etc. Some people act nothing like they normally do. Alcohol can result in swings of emotion ranging from anger, depression, euphoria, happiness, thoughtful, etc.

How much time passes before you become sober again? Depends on how much the person weighs and how fast they metabolize alcohol. Also, food in someone's stomach can help absorb alcohol, so they don't get as drunk as fast.

Is there any home remedy (ie. black coffee) that you can use to help you become sober again? I've got a hangover remedy. In some people coffee can help take off the edge off.


For examples of drunkenness, my father, who is an alcoholic, closes one eye when he gets drunk, is loud, and argumentative. He is unstable when he tries to walk and has tunnel vision. The alcohol is often still in his system the morning after and he doesn't remember what happened the night before. While he is drunk, he is a lush, and won't listen anyone. He also doesn't believe he is drunk.

My nephew when he gets drunk is loud and often doesn't have any clue where he is or who he is.

Hope this helps,

Ta,
Cal.

Hmmm. Not sure if I should answer this just now as I'm still half drunk from last night/this morning but then maybe that will help. Heh.

Cal is right, it varies greatly but when I get drunk, I tend to have trouble walking and dancing in my heels (if they haven't already been kicked off) and I've been violently sick before which isn't pleasant. Other than that, I do things I wouldn't if I was sober. I'm never quite as sensible and I've been known to dance close with people I barely know and I took lots of the helium balloons outside so I could watch them float away which was just plain silly.

It usually takes me a good six hours to sober up but I can be relatively sober four hours after the event (went swimming --we were staying at a hotel-- at eight and was drinking until four so yeah, relatively sober in four hours.)

As for remedies I can't stand coffee so sadly I have to just put up with the stomach ache/ headache but I only get those if I drink absolutely loads. I just got a bad stomach this time and I had maybe twenty drinks so not so bad. Some people can get really drunk on just three or four though.

This probably isn't too helpful huh?

Drinking quite a lot of water before you go to sleep helps stop a hangover.

For types of drunk, I think there's a crying drunk - where you get all maudlin and sob that nobody loves you. That might be just comic books, though. And there's fighting drunk, which speaks for itself, I guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk

Tried the ever wonderful Wiki?

I know that there is a drink that has small shards of gold in and then when you you drink it, it cuts your throat just a little and therefore the alcohol gets into your blood stream quicker, therefore getting you drunk quicker.

It's on Wikipedia but I can't remember what it's called. Silly me.

I know it's not on topic, I just thought it would be nice to share that little piece of information.

Ha. Goldschlager.

Being drunk, in my opinion, is a mental state where you just act the way you want to without any second thoughts. Most people, including myself, just do whatever comes to mind. Howver some people convince themselves their drunk and can almost convince everyone around them they are drunk.Society must have started a myth that when you're drunk you do stupid things because I (correct me if I'm wrong) just get very lazy and am relaxed and say what ever comes to mind and fall easily. But other people spin around screaming. Its a really difficult feeling to describe.

Also, I've heard Gatorade helps with being drunk and getting over hang overs because it rebuilds electrolytes your body loses when you drink mass amounts of alcohol. Also, urinating can help to remove the alcohol from your system causing you to sober up quicker.

I tend to feel unattached to things, which is why I'm never too bothered about the consequences of my actions. I sway, my vision is blurry and delayed by a fraction of a second (so my head feels like it turns slightly faster than my eyesight). I'll find many things funny, regardless of whether they actually are or not. I feel more relaxed around people, I tend to be even/louder, my speach slurs slightly, I make even more bad jokes than usual, and I feel happy.

After an hour or two of this, I may start to feel sick as well, I quieten down a bit, and I'm not so unconcerned about consequences.

Trying to go to sleep whilst drunk is often unpleasant, because the world may feel like its swirling around me whilst I'm trying to get to sleep.

I rarely get hangovers, partially because I always limit the ammount of alcohol I drink, and I ensure to have at least one glass of water before going to bed.

The worst case of a hangover I've ever had: I woke up at around five AM, feeling more or less okay (bit of a headache, but nothing too bad). But after only twenty or so minutes, I started to feel a little sick. Over the next four hours, the feeling of sickness got increasing bad, until finally at nine I threw up. I'd spent about half an hour in the toilet prior to vomitting, leaning over the toilet in fearful anticipation.

After I was sick, I had about five minutes of respite, and then started dryheaving, which was extremely painful (I felt like my stomach was attempting to fold in on itself). When that finished, I jumped back into bed, and feel asleep before I was sick again. A fair few hours later, I woke, feeling more or less okay again - thankfully, this time I didn't vomit.

Um, I think that's everything.

This subject on YWS = scholarly dissertation

This subject on almost any other site = bfuqbr9h239uhr32

Just please refrain from discussing your favorite beverages and inebriated experiences, although if either are in response to Kylan's question, then it's fine. Thus far, I have seen nothing of that sort (the Goldschlager comment was made more in a research type manner and not in a, OMG You Gotta Try This! type of manner so it's fine).

What's worrying is how many teenagers are sharing their own experiences, even for illumination, research and scholarly understanding.

I haven't tried Goldschalger, I just thought it would be a good thing to say; seen as though it's all about alcohol and stuff.

Here's the link, I finally found it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4ger

Even if it doesn't help, I'm sure people will find it interesting.

It does range differently for everyone.

My dad, for example, just babbles. XD Then passes out. Nothing too extreme.

My second aunt on the other hand, she was an alchoholic. Her actions were extreme. It's amazing how much power your brain has over you. And when it's impaired, how you say certain things - and actually believe them in that little world you've float off too...

I don't think I should "give" examples of my aunt here given the age crowd, but only by PM if someone wishes to know.

I've heard drinking lots of water helps because it dehydrates the person quite a bit. Coffee is just a myth but people thrive on it so... XD

Yeah, it totally depends on the person. Here are some possible effects:

-At first (this starts in the beginning like when you're just starting to get a buzz) you feel warm.
-Vision gets blurry. You know you're drunk when you're talking to someone and it looks like they have three eyes.
-Hearing actually becomes slighly impaired, which is part of why drunk people tend to talk really loud.
-In general, you have more fun (otherwise people wouldn't drink). Things seem more interesting.
-A lot of people have a tendency to become a lot more open and potentially tell secrets.
-Some people don't sleep well when they drink. I'm the opposite; I normally have a lot of trouble sleeping but if I'm buzzed or drunk I'm ok. I used to have this Irish roommate when I lived in Brooklyn who would drink a forty or something when it was really hot (this was summer) because it was the only way he could fall asleep.
-Really drunk people are usually really funny, partially because they usually have a tendency to say stupid things.
-People tend to get more talkative.
-People tend to get more clumsy.
-People usually get more relaxed.
-People usually laugh more.
-Some people turn red, especially Asians.
-Some people start hitting on everyone in sight. I don't know if you've heard of "beer goggles," but basically that means that, to a lot of people (not me, fortunately), everyone looks hotter when you're drunk, therefore leading to regretable hookups.
-People are usually happy, but of course there are exception to that (usually with someone who has serious issues that sometimes come to the surface when drunk).
-People are generally friendlier.
-Sometimes the next day you won't remember a lot of the stuff that happened. For most people this only happens when REALLY drunk (but it depends on the person...personally I have a terrible drunken memory even if I was just a little drunk, whereas I've known people who have been completely, completely wasted and remembered everything). If you can't remember anything no matter how much someone tries to jog your memory, it's called "blacking out." If you can remember doing something once someone reminds you of it, that's "graying out" (a much less commonly used term).
-If you drink a lot a lot a lot a lot, you are likely to throw up and/or pass out.
-Like someone pointed out, you don't usually think about things before you do them...This sometimes includes taking another shot. If you're drunk you're probably not thinking, "Maybe I shouldn't have one or I'll be too hungover tomorrow."

From my experience there really aren't that many angry/aggressive drunks out there, though of course they do exist. As for crying drunks, I've never known anyone who ALWAYS cries when they're drunk, but some people do occasionally. It's mostly because alcohol tends to exaggerate whatever mood you're in so if someone's upset and then drinks they'll probably just get even more upset. There are also sleeping drunks--I've known a couple people who would go straight to sleep if they even got near being drunk (so those people normally aren't big drinkers, because what's the point...)

I don't think there's a really effective remedy to sober up, aside from maybe vomitting. I think the coffee thing is a myth...but then again it is a stimulant and alcohol is a depressant so they might cancel each other out. There are many things that help with hangovers, though. I think it's a myth that urinating causes you to sober up, because I think I read it only gets rid of a very, very small percent of the alcohol in your system. I've actually known on or two people who purposely don't go, thinking it will make them stay drunk, though.

Don't trust the portrayal in TV shows. Television (especially kids' television) doesn't portray alcohol very accurately because they are trying to make it dramatic and because sometimes they're trying to convince kids not to drink--so there's a lot more throwing up on TV, and unrealistic ways of making an idiot of oneself. (For example, even if you're drunk, you are not going to stand up and make a toast to everyone telling them what you really think of them [unless maybe it's to tell them how much you love them and what great friends they all are].)

As for how much time it takes to sober up, it totally varies, on who you are and how much you've had. Sometimes it really doesn't take long and sometimes people wake up the next afternoon still drunk.