The Different Characters Of Intoxication
Jul 4th, 2007 by Stephen
Richie wrote:Why are there so many different reactions to being intoxicated? I mean, there’s the person who just sits there and isn’t very active and you wonder if they are even drunk at all. Then there’s the “I just broke my arm but i can’t stop laughing because everything is hilarious when I’m drunk” person. There’s the person who just wants to sleep forever. And then there’s the person who wants to fight the biggest person they can find just because they want to get into a fight and they don’t care who it is or if they get mortally wounded.
I don’t get it, why?
The result of becoming intoxicated is a swelling of the nerve something-or-other in your neck. This limits or perhaps augments the signals that your body is sending your brain. Or maybe its augment the translation of the signals your brain receives…I’m not completely sure.
Either way, the overall result is a reduction in capacity and intelligence. Though to say that a persons intelligence is reduced may be inaccurate. The intelligence, in all likelihood is still there, it’s just inaccessible.
I believe the phenomena you are noticing here is the lower-level functionality of people you are observing.
Are you familiar with Calvin and Hobbs? Mr. Watterson depicted an excellent translation of what might be happening; though Mr. Watterson was not depicting intoxication, it just happens to apply here as well. The depiction has a control room with two large windows. In this control room, you see six or seven Calvin “clones”. These little clones are running around performing various tasks and operations. The two large windows I mentioned are Calvin’s eyes. The control room is his head/brain.
To apply this depiction to our current inquiry. When a person becomes intoxicated, that persons little people have to compensate. As a result, the normal control stations are abandoned. And emergency protocol is followed. That protocol being to survive, and reduce damages to the host (which is the body).
Therefore the simple things we are accustomed to are no longer accessible. Things like walking, talking (coherently), and calculating risk.
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