Eli5: Why do alcohol make us change preferences?

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I totally get beer goggles or being more extroverted when drunk, lower inhibitions, worse judgement and all that.

But how does it change why we want to do. If I’m sober i actively dislike the dancefloor, I don’t know what to do, and i don’t see the point? If I’m already drunk though, i absolutely love it?

Same thing with cigarettes, i have friends you couldn’t pay to smoke while sober. Or making plans you would never ever make while sober?

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Maybe it’s just me, but it never does in my case. If anything, I become a bit more risk adverse, since I know I can’t really evaluate things when in that state. There also seems to be two types of drunks — Those who become really extroverted with alcohol, and those who become or stay quiet. If anything I’m more the latter than the former, which is also why hitting a bar after a long hard and tiring week of work turns me more into a potato than a party animal.

That said, it does help me get out of my head a little, so I am less prone to overthink things before I say something or dwell on past events, but I’d never do something drunk that I wouldn’t do sober.

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