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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Your personality is a combination of your short term and long term reward seeking, for example: you’re tired and your kid is annoying as heck so you could either react agitated and send it away because you want to sleep (short term pleasure) or you can bite the bullet and take care of whatever it is because you want to raise a good kid (long term pleasure).
When you drink alcohol however, you inhibit your prefrontal cortex, the place where your memory’s are stored and consequences are calculated, to the point where it shuts off and doesn’t form new memory’s anymore (black out the next day, you still know what you are doing that night, it’s just motivated by short term pleasure and you don’t store it). That happens at around 0.15BAC (oder 1.5 Promille für meine Almans) so you basically lose the ability to calculate consequences and start to react impulsive and emotional.
This is basically paraphrased from Malcolm gladwell – talking to strangers
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