This can result in brutally honest, unfiltered opinions.Īlcohol can give people the courage to do or say things they ordinarily wouldn’t entertain. People are more likely to speak the truth while intoxicated. Regardless of what’s going on inside of someone, when they’re drunk, their true feelings will come out. If someone is feeling happy and excited, they might start to drink and party. For example, if someone is feeling down, they might start to drink and talk trash. What one says or does when they’re drunk often reflects what’s really going on inside of them. This is usually true, as people will often dredge up feelings and sentiments from somewhere deep inside of them. People often say that when they’re drunk, they let their true feelings out. They can be very thoughtful and meaningful. They are thoughts that have been affected by alcohol. 13 Does Being Drunk Change Your Intentionsĭrunk words are sober thoughts.4 Does a Drunk Mind Speak a Sober Heart.This article was originally published June 19, 2013. When we drink, not even our hearts are sober. So does a drunk mind speak a sober heart? No. In some cases, an affable friend may become a mean drunk. It is a complicated drug with all sorts of good and bad effects. It changes who we are.Īlcohol makes us happy, woozy, enthusiastic, gregarious, and loud. Since our brain is who we are, alcohol does not simply let out our true, unchanged selves. It is an active chemical process, counter-intuitively fitting the definitions of “stimulant” and “depressant.” It changes nearly every part of our brain. It does not simply tear down our inhibitions and let loose dormant desires. The fact is that drunkenness is not a passive process. That last one is the part of the brain most responsible for reasoning and judgment and all of that other high fallutin’ stuff that Homo sapiens are especially good at.
What we do know is that alcohol affects the hippocampus (memory center), which is why we black out the motor cortex, which is why we stumble and the prefrontal cortex. The way alcohol affects the brain is complicated and understood by science to a shockingly small degree. There is a reason why science and law dictate that drunk people cannot give informed consent. The scientists concluded that our general belief that intoxication causes a personality change is more likely the result of “salient, socially proliferated exemplars” - for example, cultural stereotypes born of films like The Hangover. How alcohol consumption affects personality was the topic of a new study led by Rachel Winograd, assistant research professor at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health ( University of Missouri, St Louis).
But as a team of scientists from the University of Missouri found, sober observers of drunk people don’t report such a shift. If you’re drunk, it may feel like your personality has undergone a dramatic shift. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning. It was not the intention of anyone’s “sober heart” to have several dozen people enthusiastically poison themselves to death. On his conquest, Alexander the Great held a drinking contest among his soldiers. Rather, it acts against self-control is more beguiling ways, creating only lose-lose situations.
I genuinely did not want to marry that stranger. It seems alcohol doesn’t limit our self-control by giving us over to our selfish impulses. I genuinely do not want to be friends with my least favorite person. It simply isn’t the case that I feel the way I sometimes say I do when I am drunk. But if you step back and really look at it, the claim that drunken behavior reveals true personality traits doesn’t make sense. It’s fun in the same way it’s fun for freshman psychology majors to accuse everybody of being in love with their parent on Freudian terms. It may be thrillingly fun to consider, in the pop-psychological sense, that those are activities which are what I am really inclined to do all the time, but am too inhibited to do without Guinness.
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