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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Anonymous 0 Comments

There’s a chunk of your brain in the front called the prefrontal cortex. And another piece called amygdala. They control decisions and fear respectively .
Alcohol, and it’s metabolized product, acetylaldehyde, slows nerve conduction , which means like going from highspeed internet to something like dial up (for example)
When you have enough of it In your system, things go slower in your head, so those two chunks of your brain mentioned above won’t work or respond as quickly to stop you doing things that you normally wouldn’t , or feared

Anonymous 0 Comments

Why do? I be not know.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s not that the person at the end of the night seems more attractive, it’s that you care less about his/her level of attractiveness.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The smoking thing is still weird to me honestly!

I don’t smoke because i hate it, i don’t like the taste of it at all. But when i’m getting drunk i do like cigarettes.

Anonymous 0 Comments

For me, I’m more willing to dance when I’m drunk because in my head I think everyone’s drunk so I’m not getting judged on my crappy dancing. And if people do say something about how bad my dancing is, I just say…well i was drunk. It puts my ego at ease.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The answers to your questions in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are all in your first paragraph.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Do you fully become Batman when drunk?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It doesn’t matter how much I drink. I will black out before I get up and talk to someone I think is cute