Question for all those who imbibe...

[Heatmiser 0]

When someone blacks out during a hard night of drinking, is it typically complete? Or do they remember snipits? Not something I have ever encountered, so I'm at a loss here. :)

What you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo

Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama

[skydiver604 0]

could be both

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

[419gotaminute 0]

If you drink to the point of blacking out, you are extremely close to alcohol poisoning. might wanna dial it back a bit...

[airdvr 210]

I have alot of experience in this matter...no I'm not proud. This might sound strange but I would wake up and not remember parts of the previous evening but I wasn't blacked out.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[jonstark 8]

If you wake up and there's a sock on your hand you should learn not to pass out.

I don't remember what it means but I heard it at a Mardi Gras Boogie years ago and didn't DARE drink too much.

jon

[Heatmiser 0]

I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

What you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo

Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama

[NWFlyer 2]

Heatmiser

I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

Yeah, very possible. Been a long time since I've had that much to drink, and when I did, I usually didn't lose 7 hours (at least not while still standing - if I'd had that much to drink I'd usually be in bed within a couple hours), but there have definitely been some significant memory gaps. Not somewhere I like to go anymore (not that I ever really liked being THAT drunk anyway).

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[promise5 17]

Hhhhhmmmm not judging but I always wonder if the " I don't remember " coincides with if they've done something wrong or not.

But, then I'm a lightweight in the drinking department,so what do I know. Other then it's always better to talk to your dog if you've been drinking.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[quade 4]

I've never been so drunk I didn't remember what happened.

I'm not saying it's not possible, but it's never happened to me. I will also say I've never passed out from being drunk, so it's possible I just haven't hit that magical point where a person forgets things, but I think I've been FAR beyond where some people have claimed not to remember things, so I tend to believe they were bullshitting in those cases. But, maybe not. Maybe it affects different people differently.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

I've drunk a LOT but never blacked out. Just a few times I wish I had. These days I try to keep my alcoholism dialed back to the bare minimum required not to have a frontal lobotomy (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me!)

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[NWFlyer 2]

The problem comes when you use "I don't remember" as a way to absolve yourself of responsibility for anything you might have done when that drunk. Even as a college student at a party school I always took accountability for my actions, disappointing or regrettable as they may have been.

Not everyone does that, and can use "I don't remember" as an excuse because they genuinely don't remember, or they do and regret it. Either way, it shows a lack of responsibility for their own actions.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[quade 4]

This is generally why I mentally call BS on anyone who was less in the bottle than I was, but I'm also open to the possibility it affects people with not 100% predictable results.

I think it's entirely possible some people didn't know where their limit was, passed it and simply don't recall parts of what happened.

That said, a person really ought to know their limits.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Squeak 17]

Heatmiser

I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

Im a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, I have had entire weekends blacked out.
In fact I have a very sketchy memory of my entire 20s.


Clean a long time now and love the fact that I can remember everything the morning after now

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[skydiver604 0]

AWESOME!!!

Congratulations

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

[yoink 321]

Heatmiser

I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

Absolutely.

I've managed to climb to the roof of a city center hospital, get escorted off the helipad, picked up and woken up in bed the next morning without any recollection of any of that.

Now they may remember bits and pieces, but it'll probably be blurry and indistinct - like trying to remember a dream, with occasional sharp memories. That's my experience anyway...

Thankfully I can't drink like that anymore!

[skydiver604 0]

As we get older the recovery time for a night of hard drinking increases exponentially

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

[yoink 321]

skydiver604

As we get older the recovery time for a night of hard drinking increases exponentially

Man, I get DAY long hangovers from just a few beers now. Getting old sucks.

[LuckyMcSwervy 0]

skydiver604

As we get older the recovery time for a night of hard drinking increases exponentially

+ 1

I'm in a well known party town right now and I haven't done the crawl once so far. I'm too scared of what awaits the next morning!!

Always be kinder than you feel.

[billvon 3,063]

>I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to
>remember any of it.

Yes, possible. Never happened to me; I only lost memory perhaps 3 times in my life and they were all short (i.e. less than an hour.)

Be careful with thinking "he just wasn't that drunk." Different people react differently. One of the problems I had in college was that I never really seemed drunk to people so I was always being handed car keys or being told to "take care" of someone who was more sober than I was.

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

Heatmiser

I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

Normal? No, not really.

Possible, sure. Completely and totally.

In a "real" blackout, the person can continue to interact, sometimes behaving normally, other times behaving way out of character.

They may remember parts, some clearly, others hazily. Or they may remember absolutely nothing, sometimes over the span of a day or two.

This isn't "convenient forgetting" to escape responsibility. This is genuine lack of recollection of events (again, a "real" blackout)

They may pass out at some point, to awaken later with no idea where they are or how they got there.
Or they may come out of the blackout in the middle of doing something. Again, with no idea where they are, how they got there or what they are doing.

They aren't normal, they aren't funny. They are pretty dangerous. There's more than a few people in jails and prisons for doing stuff while in a blackout. They committed the crime and have no recollection of it.

Some people laugh about them, but they are a pretty strong warning sign that the person needs to cut back.

"There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy

"~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

[BIGUN 1,399]

Heatmiser

When someone blacks out during a hard night of drinking, is it typically complete? Or do they remember snipits? Not something I have ever encountered, so I'm at a loss here. :)

There's some bars in Oklahoma & Texas that you don't want to find out you have a drinking problem.

You will black out and you may remember some of it...

Depends on how hard they hit you.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[Heatmiser 0]

Thanks everyone. You're input is very helpful, as I have been fookin blitzkrieged, and still remember everything. This helps me to understand. Thanks! :)

What you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo

Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama

[oldwomanc6 60]

It is real, but does not excuse the behavior.

About 6 months ago, I was plied with some scotch (I don't drink hard liquor), posted something on here that got put into the Bin. I was horrified to discover it the next morning. I don't have a clue what I said (don't even remember posting it), and it was a subject that I can't even imagine being anything but sympathetic about.

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wolfriverjoe

***I ask because someone I know has hours of cognizant interaction, but claims not to remember any of it. Is that normal? We're talking 7 hours or so.

Normal? No, not really.

Possible, sure. Completely and totally.

In a "real" blackout, the person can continue to interact, sometimes behaving normally, other times behaving way out of character.

They may remember parts, some clearly, others hazily. Or they may remember absolutely nothing, sometimes over the span of a day or two.

This isn't "convenient forgetting" to escape responsibility. This is genuine lack of recollection of events (again, a "real" blackout)

They may pass out at some point, to awaken later with no idea where they are or how they got there.
Or they may come out of the blackout in the middle of doing something. Again, with no idea where they are, how they got there or what they are doing.

They aren't normal, they aren't funny. They are pretty dangerous. There's more than a few people in jails and prisons for doing stuff while in a blackout. They committed the crime and have no recollection of it.

Some people laugh about them, but they are a pretty strong warning sign that the person needs to cut back.

I guess it might depend on your definition of 'normal'. As you yourself said, there's more than a few people in jails and prisons for doing stuff while in a blackout, and that's just the ones who got caught.

So, especially considering that usually it's just someone being silly or mean or inappropriate, and not criminal (unless maybe dui), it is perhaps a lot more common than we like to think (again, though, not as much as when I was a teenager and beer was $6 for a 2-4 here in Ontario, and there was no driving under the influence charge). But if a substantial percentage of the population still does it, than maybe it is not 'not normal'.

Or maybe it's normal for young people who drink?

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

[promise5 17]

I remember drinking and posting something but not sure what or which thread.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.