blackouts

pretty weird feeling gettin them.. i've been awake about an hour and the last thing i remember from last night is finishing my drink in a house in town round 11pm.

WeeBushy

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pretty weird feeling gettin them.. i've been awake about an hour and the last thing i remember from last night is finishing my drink in a house in town round 11pm.

Classic case of "the fear"!
Ring em and find out what happened, I hate that feeling of not having a clue what went on.

And then let us know!

Basq

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pretty weird feeling gettin them.. i've been awake about an hour and the last thing i remember from last night is finishing my drink in a house in town round 11pm.

Roofies + Secret Butt Sex ftw! :pac:

6th

Well to help fill in the blanks you made your way to a internet cafe and logged in to Boards. You'd no cash left so you sent me a PM and I drove out to meet you and leant you €100. You tried to drop the hand but we wont talk about that.

Of course there is no record of any of this on here because you deleted your sent PM.

I'm away next week but you can get me the cash when I get back.

df1985

it is horrible alright, next few hours/days should bring a few flashbacks.get ready to cringe!

dlofnep

I can say I only truly ever was completely lost of memory of a night, and that was when my drink was spiked. All fun and games until you end up being thrown into a taxi, semi-concious and wake up on your doorstep.

I've never blacked out from just drinking on it's own. I've often not remembered a few things, but never complete loss of memory.

WeeBushy

If it happens to me it'll be a degeneration into fuzziness and then a complete blank. Dont think I've ever gone from one drink to not remembering anything at all. Rum is what usually does it for me, a naughty naughty drink.

CHD

6th wrote: »

Well to help fill in the blanks you made your way to a internet cafe and logged in to Boards. You'd no cash left so you sent me a PM and I drove out to meet you and leant you €100. You tried to drop the hand but we wont talk about that.

Of course there is no record of any of this on here because you deleted your sent PM.

I'm away next week but you can get me the cash when I get back.

So your into meeting up with men who are drunk out of there mind from the internet?

well i found my phone downstairs... screen a little bit feked, blue spot on it. message just after 1am sayin i was in kings head? then there's 3 sent messages at half 2, two of which i wish i hadn't sent. one facebook chat still open to a girl in america that i also wish never happened. but at least i know i was still in town at half 2.. my room stinks of cigarette smoke and i don't smoke or have fags, def wasn't a girl here so i assume one of the lads was here. havn't ventured near my wallet or clothes yet..

such a headache, stomach feels grand tho and my mouth is horribly dry. but i have the next 17 days of work so overall, i feel pretty good

GiftofGab

If you got that drunk, then what the hell are you doing up at 10.30am???

wudangclan

i used to get epic blackouts every time i went out for a session,3/4 total memory loss.my all time classics include waking up in a gym in a school in outside london,(where i'd been climbing (and fell) on the gym ropes),coming out of a blackout on a plane not having realised i'd changed my tickets (i'd somehow lost the boarding card stub and didn't even know where i was flying) and my last blackout was a year ago,i started drinking in the pub downstairs from my new place,i woke up the next day in my old house,that i'd moved out of 4 weeks previously and for where i didn't have keys.
i haven't drank a drop since.

GiftofGab

GiftofGab wrote: »

If you got that drunk, then what the hell are you doing up at 10.30am???

i'm awake ages.... i never sleep past 8 cause of bein used to gettin up for work i'll crash badly later round 5-6..

wudangclan

wudangclan wrote: »

i used to get epic blackouts every time i went out for a session,3/4 total memory loss.my all time classics include waking up in a gym in a school in outside london,(where i'd been climbing (and fell) on the gym ropes),coming out of a blackout on a plane not having realised i'd changed my tickets (i'd somehow lost the boarding card stub and didn't even know where i was flying) and my last blackout was a year ago,i started drinking in the pub downstairs from my new place,i woke up the next day in my old house,that i'd moved out of 4 weeks previously and for where i didn't have keys.
i haven't drank a drop since.

wow... :eek: at least i'm in my bed the next morning!

My name is URL

Its happened me a few times after mad ones, I hate the feeling

They say having them is a good indication of alcoholism =o

have to do it all again tonight aswell.. and i'll probably drink buckie again.

if the ones in work could see me now

WeeBushy

wudangclan wrote: »

i used to get epic blackouts every time i went out for a session,3/4 total memory loss.my all time classics include waking up in a gym in a school in outside london,(where i'd been climbing (and fell) on the gym ropes),coming out of a blackout on a plane not having realised i'd changed my tickets (i'd somehow lost the boarding card stub and didn't even know where i was flying) and my last blackout was a year ago,i started drinking in the pub downstairs from my new place,i woke up the next day in my old house,that i'd moved out of 4 weeks previously and for where i didn't have keys.
i haven't drank a drop since.

That's hilarious!
When I get that drunk I go into a sort of Ray Mears survivalist mode where I need to go to bed and nothing will stop me.
Was at a 21st just outside cork and got into my "I have to go home" mood so left the party to try and get a taxi home... I live in Dublin.

omahaid

My name is URL wrote: »

Its happened me a few times after mad ones, I hate the feeling

They say having them is a good indication of alcoholism =o

Go away out of that, its the sign of a successful night out, sign of victory!!

omahaid

omahaid wrote: »

Go away out of that, its the sign of a successful night out, sign of victory!!

exactly, i know i had a good time like.. i just don't know how, where or why.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

have to do it all again tonight aswell.. and i'll probably drink buckie again.

if the ones in work could see me now

OP, I see your problem now. By buckie, I'm assuming you mean buckfast?

I used to drink it every weekend years ago and was constantly blacking out. Don't drink it anymore (almost never and stick to the lager) and suprise suprise, no blackouts.

CHD

rarnes1 wrote: »

OP, I see your problem now. By buckie, I'm assuming you mean buckfast?

I used to drink it every weekend years ago and was constantly blacking out. Don't drink it anymore (almost never and stick to the lager) and suprise suprise, no blackouts.

You can blackout on lager, just takes a little effort. I have done this numerous times.

WeeBushy

rarnes1 wrote: »

OP, I see your problem now. By buckie, I'm assuming you mean buckfast?

I used to drink it every weekend years ago and was constantly blacking out. Don't drink it anymore (almost never and stick to the lager) and suprise suprise, no blackouts.

But why would you do that? What kind of life could you have without buckie?!

rarnes1

rarnes1 wrote: »

OP, I see your problem now. By buckie, I'm assuming you mean buckfast?

I used to drink it every weekend years ago and was constantly blacking out. Don't drink it anymore (almost never and stick to the lager) and suprise suprise, no blackouts.

it's a great drink tho... just don't have the tolerance anymore for it and cans before a night out. back in the day, bottle of bo and 6 tins was a given :cool:

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

it's a great drink tho... just don't have the tolerance anymore for it and cans before a night out. back in the day, bottle of bo and 6 tins was a given :cool:

Tell me about it.

I call it a bottle of blackout these days !

Gillo

A mate once got spiked with ketamine, now that's a blackout and a half. Worst of all it was in a forest near the Glen of the Downs. Doesn't remember a thing from the whole night. Don't think I've ever blacked out, lots of fuzzy bit but nothing too serious.

rarnes1

rarnes1 wrote: »

Tell me about it.

I call it a bottle of blackout these days !

pfft.. please, it's "a bottle of beat the wife"

omahaid

CHD wrote: »

You can blackout on lager, just takes a little effort. I have done this numerous times.

You sure? I drink a lot of lager and I can't remember ever blacking out!!

An Fear Aniar

It's a sign you're drinking too much for your system to cope with. Possibly cut down the juice a bit if you're getting frequent blackouts.

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omahaid

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

It's a sign you're drinking too much for your system to cope with. Possibly cut down the juice a bit if you're getting frequent blackouts.

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Now, who here likes a good story about a bridge?

An Fear Aniar

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

It's a sign you're drinking too much for your system to cope with. Possibly cut down the juice a bit if you're getting frequent blackouts.

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first in ages :P

eirebhoy

I blackout half the time I drink. I can still hold a perfectly normal conversation with someone but won't remember a thing the next day. In fact most people wouldn't know I was drunk from what I've been told. If a few of us went on a full day's drinking you'd be doing well to get anyone to remember the end of the night. You get used to it.

I'm sure it's just from the pretty much weekly drinking since the age of 12. Because up until the age of about 18 or 19 I wouldn't black out at all. The first few times blacking out would be as many people describe. The fear the next day and you always made a show of yourself. As I said though, now I just come to expect it and I haven't done anything seriously embarrassing in a long time. Other than the 4am boards posts which I only remember after reading. I just have to pretend to a few people that I know what they're talking about from our long conversation the previous night.

Whiskey Devil

Blacked out way too many times to remember. :pac: I woke up in a field 10 miles outside Drogheda one time - hadn't a clue how I got there. I was just after moving there and I could have been in Kerry for all I knew. It was a nightmare getting home.


Horrible horrible feeling.

Armin_Tamzarian

You're getting off lightly OP.
I woke up in a cell with a blackout one Sunday morning when I was 17.
Hadn't a clue what had happened or how I'd gotten there.

A Garda came around to check on me and I asked him what had I done.
"You don't remember?", says he.
When I said no he just shook his head and said that I'd gotten in a fight and attacked some guy with an ashtray.
He said that they'd either be charging me with manslaughter or attempted murder, depending on whether yer man pulled out of the coma or not.
He told me they'd be holding me there for a while before transporting me to prison where I'd be held on remand.
He left me to stew there for an hour or so until he came back and told me to go home.
Turned out they'd just picked me up to teach me a lesson after seeing me trying to stagger home at 2am.

I remember as I was leaving he shouted "take it easy now Killer" as the lot of them fell around laughing at me.
What a shower of cnunts.

barakus

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

You're getting off lightly OP.
I woke up in a cell with a blackout one Sunday morning when I was 17.
Hadn't a clue what had happened or how I'd gotten there.

A Garda came around to check on me and I asked him what had I done.
"You don't remember?", says he.
When I said no he just shook his head and said that I'd gotten in a fight and attacked some guy with an ashtray.
He said that they'd either be charging me with manslaughter or attempted murder, depending on whether yer man pulled out of the coma or not.
He told me they'd be holding me there for a while before transporting me to prison where I'd be held on remand.
He left me to stew there for an hour or so until he came back and told me to go home.
Turned out they'd just picked me up to teach me a lesson after seeing me trying to stagger home at 2am.

I remember as I was leaving he shouted "take it easy now Killer" as the lot of them fell around laughing at me.
What a shower of cnunts.

heh heh!! thats well funny.who says the shades dont have a sense of humour!!:D

One of the worst blackouts for me was getting pissed with this huge rugby player from fiji that I randomly got talking to at the Airport in Brisbane. When I said I was Irish the f**ker produced a litre of whiskey from his luggage:cool:the next thing I knew I woke up on a bench at a Train station several hundred miles from brisbane with no luggage...at all.

At least I didnt have a sore arse:pac:

An Fear Aniar

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

A Garda came around to check on me and I asked him what had I done.
"You don't remember?", says he.

A bloke I know killed someone for real in a blackout. He doesn't drink anymore.

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Armin_Tamzarian

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

A bloke I know killed someone for real in a blackout. He doesn't drink anymore.

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There has been cases of people being so drunk that they have committed murder while allegedly being completely under the control of an alcohol induced stupor.

AFAIK some people have actually been acquitted of murder as a result of this so-called automaton defence.

soups05

a few years ago there was a report about rapes being blamed on spiked drinks...


"A Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, which is investigating the effect of alcohol on hospital attendances, heard last week that there had been more than a four-fold increase in the number of requests by women attending the Rotunda Hospital sexual assault treatment unit (SATU) for the staff to determine whether they had been sexually assaulted.

They were unable to remember because of alcohol intake.

Many of the women at the unit believed their drink had been spiked with some date-rape drug, but according to the director of SATU, Dr Mary Holohan, while toxicology reports have never found the presence of such drugs, they do show the level of alcohol in someone's system is often so high it would normally be found in a coroner's report on a dead person.

Ms O'Briain acknowledged there was a binge drinking culture in Ireland, but said whether someone was drinking did not change the fact they had been assaulted or raped. "


so a blackout may not be a spiked drink,merely too much drink. this does not take away from the crime of rape,but it does highlight the irish love of drinking to excess.

or drinking to anything.

dsmythy

The blackouts could either be great or horrendous depending on the photos that emerge on Facebook the day after...

Just had a quick read up online about blackouts. Apparently it's not a case of people forgetting things but of the alcohol having an effect on the brain that causes it to stop forming memories in the first place.

So one possible way to check if someone is in the middle of a blackout is to ask them a question like who were they talking to five minutes ago. Another test which might work is to ask them to remember three words. A couple of minutes later ask them what the three words were and because their brain is not forming memories they won't be able to tell you.

The Big Red Button

dsmythy wrote: »

The blackouts could either be great or horrendous depending on the photos that emerge on Facebook the day after...

Just had a quick read up online about blackouts. Apparently it's not a case of people forgetting things but of the alcohol having an effect on the brain that causes it to stop forming memories in the first place.

So one possible way to check if someone is in the middle of a blackout is to ask them a question like who were they talking to five minutes ago. Another test which might work is to ask them to remember three words. A couple of minutes later ask them what the three words were and because their brain is not forming memories they won't be able to tell you.

God that's pretty scary! :eek:

sudzy

I get the worst blackouts! I hit the beer hard most nights and usually end up forgetting a good hour or so!

One epic session at a festival in Baltimore, USA. My brother and I were hard on the beer, being only 19 aswell (drinking age is 21). Anyway, pretty drunk by the time the music was over, I had lost my shirt, and we tried to blag our way into the VIP afterparty. Wasn't successful for the first 30min then I looked down the road and saw an open door, and told my bro.
So we left the main door looking disappointed to the bouncers, but just walked straight into the side door, no security or nothing.

So in this VIP afterparty, with free bar, me and my bro jus perched up at the bar and ordered lik four tequilas each and 2 pints every go. Last thing i remember was seeing Kanye West at the far side of the party surrounded by loads of people, so I legged it over to try chat to him and my bro said four massive black guys kicked me out.

Blank for prob 5hrs after that. When I came to, I was sittin outside with this local black girl just talking. 6 miles from the festival. Dunno how I got there, but was some effort getting back for the second day!

Insane session altogether!

Nisroc

The older you are the more common, due to drinking, they become. I gave up drinking loads when out as I had trouble remembering the end of nights, not that I did anything bad. But even these days if I were to have a few beers and decide to watch a flick, while having a few more beers I can't bloody remember the last half or quarter of it.

It is like the brain says to itself "Not a lot of point in me staying on, auto pilot should be grand, hope he don't have to go for a p1ss later"

rubadub

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

He said that they'd either be charging me with manslaughter or attempted murder, depending on whether yer man pulled out of the coma or not.
He told me they'd be holding me there for a while before transporting me to prison where I'd be held on remand.
He left me to stew there for an hour or so until he came back and told me to go home.
Turned out they'd just picked me up to teach me a lesson after seeing me trying to stagger home at 2am.

I remember as I was leaving he shouted "take it easy now Killer" as the lot of them fell around laughing at me.
What a shower of cnunts.

Hmm pity you didn't remember. It would be the best thing to say to the cops whether you did remember or not. But if you did remember and they pulled that trick they they would have come back an hour or so later after letting you "stew" only to find you apparently dead on the ground with a pair of fake slit wrists. How d'ya feel now killer cop.

soups05 wrote: »

Many of the women at the unit believed their drink had been spiked with some date-rape drug, but according to the director of SATU, Dr Mary Holohan, while toxicology reports have never found the presence of such drugs, they do show the level of alcohol in someone's system is often so high it would normally be found in a coroner's report on a dead person.

Ms O'Briain acknowledged there was a binge drinking culture in Ireland, but said whether someone was drinking did not change the fact they had been assaulted or raped. "

Alcohol is the number one date rape drug of choice. In fact I think there has never been a single case (in ireland anyway) of GHB being found in any alleged drug rape victims body. Many doctors are actively trying to get the ban on it lifting because of this nonsense myth about it being used as a date rape drug, while really the reason it is banned is the massive threat it poses to the drinks industry (ironically promoting the REAL date rape drug).

dsmythy wrote: »

Just had a quick read up online about blackouts. Apparently it's not a case of people forgetting things but of the alcohol having an effect on the brain that causes it to stop forming memories in the first place.

The memories can never be recalled, even under hypnosis it is called alcoholic amnesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(alcohol-related_amnesia)

this is the interesting bit.

Blackouts are quite often associated with the consumption of large amounts of alcohol; however surveys of drinkers experiencing blackouts have indicated that they are not directly related to the amount of alcohol consumed. Respondents reported they frequently recalled having "drunk as much or more without memory loss," compared to instances of blacking out.[7] Subsequent research has indicated that blackouts are most likely caused by a rapid increase in a person's blood-alcohol concentration. One study, in particular, resulted in subjects being stratified easily into two groups, those who consumed alcohol very quickly, and blacked out, and those who did not black out by drinking alcohol slowly, despite being extremely intoxicated by the end of the study.

I find that myself, it would be spirits more likely to be able to cause a sudden rise.

Captain-America

Never actually blacked out, but my memory goes to shít when I drink more than six beers.
Remembering things I did are always fun.