It's true that even if you drink water, you can get drunk without getting drunk.

It can be said that there are a thousand kinds of outrageous drunkenness for a thousand times.

This is just the outrageous initial version (Picture / Douban)

In terms of chemical nature, ethanol mainly has a sedative effect on the central nervous system. Those excited and even manic behaviors after drinking alcohol have the opposite effect as ethanol itself. How do you explain that?

Scientists have conducted a series of experiments to explore people's drunken behavior, and have come to a somewhat counterintuitive conclusion-that people's expectations before drinking can significantly affect their state after drinking. In other words, sometimes, you just feel drunk.

This is how the experiment is done. The researchers prepared three cocktails: high, low and non-alcoholic, and the drinkers did not know which one they had. They were told before the test that the three cocktails had been seasoned and tasted the same in different degrees.

Blind box cocktails, you don't know if you're drinking wine or not. (photo / unsplash)

After drinking, the two subjects entered the behavior test as a group. The specific task is to make special mashed potatoes for your teammates, that is, add chili sauce and salt to the mashed potatoes, and then let your teammates eat them.

Unsurprisingly, some of the participants began to do whatever they wanted, making spicy mashed potatoes and saying they felt they had drunk a high number of cocktails! However, some of the people who thought they were high were given only non-alcoholic drinks. Some of the participants who did drink a high number of drinks felt that they were not drunk and behaved quite rationally.

"I'm not drunk, I'm sober!" (photo / pixabay)

In a similar experiment, testers were asked to create an advertisement for a given drink after drinking, such as writing an advertisement or planning a short film. The results are similar: people who think they are drunk create more interesting and creative ads.

"I'm getting drunk and stronger!" (photo / pixabay)

In many cases, you just induce yourself into a state where you think you're "drunk", even if you don't drink. After watching the next experiment, you will find that even the degree of drunkenness is sometimes closely related to the drinkers' expectations.

It is rumored that Red Bull with vodka will produce the power of double kill, is it true? it doesn't matter, because as long as you think it's true, it can be true.

"Red Bull is just for wine, the more you drink, the better you get" (please don't try it easily) Picture / bing

In a sense, what people need may not be wine, but a bottle. It doesn't matter what's in it.

The expectation of drinking will affect drunken behavior, leaving drinkers in a superposition of "drunk and not drunk", which may be Schrodinger's wine.

It sounds like some kind of metaphysics, but it is essentially similar to the placebo effect in psychology.

The so-called placebo effect means that in the drug test, the patient thinks he has taken the medicine and reports that the symptoms are relieved. But what he actually took was a sugar pill from the control group. One explanation for the placebo effect is that when a patient takes a placebo, some areas of the brain are actively activated, so the subjective perception of the symptoms weakens.

Magic candy pill! (photo / Wikipedia)

However, its function is limited to regulating symptoms and can not treat diseases. A word from the doctor can explain the matter very well--

"placebos do not reduce blood lipids, nor do they make tumors shrink. But it can make patients feel better about themselves. "

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When it comes to this, one thing must be emphasized. The conclusion about the expectation of drinking is not true in the opposite direction. If someone tells you when persuading you to drink, "whether you are drunk or not depends on your mentality. As long as you feel that you are not drunk, you can drink all the time!" Never fall into this logical trap.

After alcohol enters the stomach, it will soon enter the bloodstream. It will go straight to the brain in 5 minutes and begin to take effect in 10 minutes, affecting the central nervous system. Depending on the increase in alcohol concentration in the blood, people go through the following stages--

In the first stage, the response is gradually slow.

In the second stage, dopamine release feels relaxed and enjoyable.

The third stage, inarticulate, blurred vision.

In the fourth stage, the cerebellum is unable to support the wall.

The fifth stage. Don't you dare drink.

During the Spring Festival, a young man who began to be slow to respond after drinking only half a glass of beer wrote this article, hoping to tell you that the joy of a party does not come from alcohol, and there is more than one thing that makes people secrete dopamine. The so-called pursuit of drinking is nothing more than a state, do not get drunk for happiness.

* do not drink alcohol for minors! You can't use italics if you are serious! )