It seems to me, reading a lot of accounts and news about strange occurences that the fall back position of many of the members of public that see wierdness is that they were sober or had barely touched a drop of alcohol, hence they are sure that what they saw was real.
From my experience, alcohol is probably the most effective drug at blocking any Fortean mindset* - whether it happens in your mind, or if you fail to notice something interesting happening in your locale. True, the day after, a heavy intake can scramble your narrative on what happened the night before - but to come up with fantastical imaginings??
Does this mean that when these types of people are on a bender that they see all sorts of strange stuff - i.e. "I was out with Trace on Saturday night and saw eight Sasquatch doing a sprint race up the main street - but I'd had 8 bacardi breezers by then, so I ignored them". So is there anyone here that can induce real weirdness by drinking?
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*I do realise that the psychosomatic properties of this tiny little molecule on the human brain are indeed fascinating in their own right - for example that it seems that the effect of alcohol on a persons seems to be heavily dependent on that persons own expectations of what it will do - although the normal stated responses to alcohol, such as aggressiveness, sociability or tiredness seems in my eyes to be explained by the general lack of inhibition that alcohol causes.
From my experience, alcohol is probably the most effective drug at blocking any Fortean mindset* - whether it happens in your mind, or if you fail to notice something interesting happening in your locale. True, the day after, a heavy intake can scramble your narrative on what happened the night before - but to come up with fantastical imaginings??
Does this mean that when these types of people are on a bender that they see all sorts of strange stuff - i.e. "I was out with Trace on Saturday night and saw eight Sasquatch doing a sprint race up the main street - but I'd had 8 bacardi breezers by then, so I ignored them". So is there anyone here that can induce real weirdness by drinking?
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*I do realise that the psychosomatic properties of this tiny little molecule on the human brain are indeed fascinating in their own right - for example that it seems that the effect of alcohol on a persons seems to be heavily dependent on that persons own expectations of what it will do - although the normal stated responses to alcohol, such as aggressiveness, sociability or tiredness seems in my eyes to be explained by the general lack of inhibition that alcohol causes.