what happens when we blackout from drinking too much?

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what happens when we blackout from drinking too much?

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There’s a physical part of your brain that handles moving things from short term memory into long term memory.

Get sufficiently shitfaced and that part of the brain, like all the others, can stop functioning correctly. That blocks the ability to form coherent long term memories, and so you don’t remember anything the next morning.

You’re also impairing the ability to see or balance or think clearly, so it’s not surprising that all the other background brain processes start to break down too.