Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Stages of Intoxication

On our regular Saturday night, after clinks of glasses, a few exchanges of banters with my friends and alcohol filling up my system. I suddenly thought of something, how many stages of intoxication are there  before a person completely passes out. So i came to realize, this situation would be the best time to watch my friends closely. I'm a heavy drinker so i don't think i can be a rat lab for this. I know getting a lil tipsy can make your brain work better but not when were heavily boozed. So there is a limitation for me if i do that alone. So from start to the end i took notes (in my mind, of course) Anyway, here are a few things that i noticed: 

1. Confident/Over Confident - No restrictions, you say what you want and do what you want. If your personality is tactless it will be even worse when you drink. 

2. Elation/Excitation - no matter how a person feels from the beginning, they will go through  an ecstatic feeling. This is probably the reason most  of us would feel we're having a great time but i think its caused by alcohol.

3. Emotional - for some, it is already considered drunk but not for me. Because you still have your senses intact. A person carrying a problem/burden at this stage would break down and cry, very likely in breakups. But this is just their chance of letting it out.  

4 Argumentative - we become illogical and would just protest over little things they don't agree with. This will be a battle between what they think is right. At this point, it could end up in a brawl or one of them would let it loose.

5. Guilt/Realization- this is point of realization. Most likely will feel guilt after their actions especially petty arguments. Or, realizing its drinking limitations.

6. Physically impaired - kinda funny right? its very similar to an impaired person. Body at this point won't coordinate with what your mind says. Speaking will be definitely hard and if you manage to speak out whats in your mind, hands down to you! Distinct characteristic of this stage is extreme clumsiness!  

 7. Spiderman abilities - why you asked, you will learn how to crawl, cling to walls and insensible to inhuman physical damage. However, your wrong if you think that is cool. This far you lost your ability to walk or stand and body could either be parallel to the ground or down on all fours. Your only way to get your footing is to cling on walls. You may not feel a thing because of numbness caused by alcohol, if you hit your head or any part of your body you'll definitely feel hell the next day!

8. Sound sleeper - system shutdown, comfortably sleeping  regardless of what position. This is where your friends will make fun of you. So don't be surprised if  pictures of your are all over facebook or other social network sites the next day.

I guess thats it for now. i'll try to update this as soon as i gather more information about intoxication..

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