Other than alcohol, what makes you drunk on a night out?

az2wp0sye65487

I'm just in from a night in a loud bar. I was driving so didn't drink. The place was fairly lively, loud music, people dancing, and we all had a good time...

Now, as I left to walk back to my car my ears were ringing, and I was experiencing some sort of 'buzz'.... My ears are still ringing now but apart from that I feel 'normal' again.

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

IM0

ribena

When the air hits ya as you leave. Many, many nights end in my mind at the bottom of a set of stairs.

delta_bravo

It seems you are confusing loud noises with intoxication

Kylo Ren

WTF are you talking about OP?

Squarewave

Closing my eyes for longer than 3 seconds when drunk really f*cks me up

WoollyRedHat

Spinning round in circles on the dancefloor makes me feel drunk for a while, just like when I was kid, free and fun.

In fact, I'm doing it right now while i'm typign this now, god im so drunk llool

IM0

delta_bravo wrote: »

It seems you are confusing loud noises with intoxication

he has a point though. it does make a difference when you leave a dark, loud, people moving in all directions and go outside to the fresh air its like being less drunk again

WoollyRedHat

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

IrishAm

You may have been experiencing a mild case of euphoria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria

kjl

This is going to sound crazy, but I don't drink alcohol. So when I am out I just drink water because I don't want to queue up for a soft drink and in a club you can normally just ask someone to throw a water onto their order.

So on a night out, I might have six glasses of water, and I feel very hydrated and as a result I tend to dance. This releases endorphins and combined that with the contact high I get from being with drunk people I often feel very drunk on a night out.

I also smoke, so I sometimes wake up the next day with a really bad hangover.

Battered Mars Bar

Sweet jaysus, OP just go to bed, thanks night.

Title "Other than alcohol, what makes you drunk on a night out"

ffs Op ffs, ffs.

Mr.Biscuits

Well, perhaps I'm getting old, but I was drunk with joy just watching Gorillas in the Mist tonight.

Which was kinda weird, as when I came in from Copper Face Jacks, the movie Gorillas In The Mist was on TV tonight too.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Baaaaand on the run, band on the run.....eugh.:)

JETT!! WOO Sergeant major.

Overheal

Rhohypnol, but..

Sharpshooter

Did you leave out a ..t.. there?:p

Lionel Messy

Without a shadow of a doubt, if i drink 8 pints in my house i won't feel nearly the same effects as if i had just 4 in pubs. I don't know what it is! The ideal amount of jars to have in a pub is two because you have that buzz. I know what your on about.

LH Pathe

Other than alcohol, what makes you pose questions like this

jill_valentine

Jayson Agreeable Survivor wrote: »

I'm just in from a night in a loud bar. I was driving so didn't drink. The place was fairly lively, loud music, people dancing, and we all had a good time...

Now, as I left to walk back to my car my ears were ringing, and I was experiencing some sort of 'buzz'.... My ears are still ringing now but apart from that I feel 'normal' again.

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

They've tested this out, and yeah, being in a "drunk" atmosphere or drinking non-alcoholic drinks with an expectation of intoxication has pretty much exactly the same effect. Sympathetic behaviour and placebo effect at work. It's interesting. Worth bearing in mind if you're out for the night, try it out. Switch to the water every other pint and save yourself a few bob, and you'll still feel pretty much exactly as drunk by the end of the night as you would otherwise.

Another interesting booze related thing is that drunken behaviour is different in one country compared to how it is in others, depending on what the stereotype is there. So a French person given the exact same amount of alcohol as a Irish person will be affected differently and behave differently, because their expectations of what the drink will do to them are different.

Sharpshooter

LH Pathe wrote: »

Other than alcohol, what makes you pose questions like this

An inquiring mind?:p

RichieC

Is it not enough you won the evening without you bragging about it on the intertube?

Duggy747

Generally, doing a double drop of hash, smoking some MDMA, and injecting coke seems to give me the above-average kick for the night.

Though the scag will make you feel like a couple of bad fortnights in a balloon.

LH Pathe

teh barmans fart

I've said the same thing before OP, I get into the car and I feel a little merry, I've wondered is it because I've had about four diet cokes and I'm getting a caffeine high but I think it is the environment. Definitely know what you're talking about though.

Tom Cruise

Wine gums

Abi

Jayson Agreeable Survivor wrote: »

I'm just in from a night in a loud bar. I was driving so didn't drink. The place was fairly lively, loud music, people dancing, and we all had a good time...

Now, as I left to walk back to my car my ears were ringing, and I was experiencing some sort of 'buzz'.... My ears are still ringing now but apart from that I feel 'normal' again.

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

I think the lads have been firing a dash of vodka in your drink everytime you go to the jax.

Sam Mac

Ed Sheerans song

az2wp0sye65487

IrishAm wrote: »

You may have been experiencing a mild case of euphoria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria

N'ah, I doubt it..... it wasn't that good a night!

jill_valentine wrote: »

They've tested this out, and yeah, being in a "drunk" atmosphere or drinking non-alcoholic drinks with an expectation of intoxication has pretty much exactly the same effect. Sympathetic behaviour and placebo effect at work. It's interesting. Worth bearing in mind if you're out for the night, try it out. Switch to the water every other pint and save yourself a few bob, and you'll still feel pretty much exactly as drunk by the end of the night as you would otherwise.

Another interesting booze related thing is that drunken behaviour is different in one country compared to how it is in others, depending on what the stereotype is there. So a French person given the exact same amount of alcohol as a Irish person will be affected differently and behave differently, because their expectations of what the drink will do to them are different.

Deleted User wrote: »

I've said the same thing before OP, I get into the car and I feel a little merry, I've wondered is it because I've had about four diet cokes and I'm getting a caffeine high but I think it is the environment. Definitely know what you're talking about though.

That's what I was getting at! At least I'm not going mad... and others have heard about/experienced this also.

Pace2008

Jayson Agreeable Survivor wrote: »

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

Absolutely. My mates an I were only discussing this recently. We'd been out on a pub session a few weeks before and got through a fair go o pitchers between us, taking in about 9 or ten pints each on average. We were absolutely locked. Fast forward to the weekend after and we were sitting in with cans, had about 8 each, we were barely off baseline. Same seems to apply tyo smaller amounts of drink. If I have four cans watching the game at home I'd may as well have been sipping on water for all my consciousness would be altered. 4 pints out before the club and I'd be buzzing and getting a bit silly.

I find it quite surprising as I would have considered alcohol to be primarily a physiological thing unlike, say, trips, where your surroundings play a vital role in the experience.