Why does drinking enough alcohol make cause a “blackout”?

Question

…and how does blacking out actually work? Do people actually go unconscious? Or do they just not remember?

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Answer 1

Its sort of like your brain has to work so much harder just to do simple things, like keep you alive, it drops some of its other duties to focus. One of those things is making memories, so its not that you forget things, it’s that you never remembered them in the first place.