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Probably more accurate to say "in wine, no filter." People are more likely to say what's on their mind. But what's on their mind could be complete nonsense.

I've said a lot of dumb shit drunk.

It can be, but the problem with getting a truth from someone drunk, is that a drunk person is also an unreliable narrator.

Hard to tell when you're actually hearing a truth or just alcohol induced nonsense

Fun fact: the spooks in the government have tried for decades to create a truth serum, but nothing they come up with outperforms alcohol. They do have stronger stuff, but they also cause vivid hallucinations or make you loopy as fuck, and there's not much use in interrogating someone who currently believes they have knife hands or are Jesus Christ himself. Alcohol leaves you pretty much lucid no matter how sloshed you get, even if you end up blackout drunk.

My coworkers and were discussing this early today, as it happens. It started with one person claiming that you're not yourself when you're drunk; then another posited that you're the most yourself when you're drunk because your pretenses and masking behaviors are neglected. I personally said that I thought neither was true but since I'm a known contrarian no one took me seriously, so I'm glad you asked here.

It's close enough, ig: drunk people are less inhibited and cannot think as clearly and quickly as they do sober so, either out of lack of care or simply because they cannot keep in mind which things shouldn't be said for X and Y reasons, they might say something they held close and would not share sober. Why?

A jug of wine, a leg of lamb

And thou! Beside me, whistling in the darkness

Alcohol depresses your inhibitions. Your inhibitions are what largely make up your morals, your morals your personality.

“Never have I ever” is an icebreaker get-to-know-you game for a reason.

I think it's just that ethanol intoxication causes disinhibition.

A few things, I'm autistic and it takes a lot of effort when talking to people especially new people for me to process how I need to talk so that the things I want to say are understood. When I drank I spoke as though I were talking to myself without all the translation process.

So in one way you could say I spoke more "true" when drunk, however the conversation would not be understood in the way I had intended.

Another thing how many people have professed their love and devotion for you while drunk only to stab you in the back while sober?

truth is relative. etoh is a CNS depressant which means your inhibitory functions are diminished when you drink. which means it's harder to resist impulses or keep a secret when drinking. again, relatively speaking.

I do think how someone acts when drunk tells you a lot about them. Not so much that you can get the correct answer to some question, but their behavior while drunk is a view of their thinking. Disinhibition, as someone else noted.

The interesting thing is that it works even a as placebo.

The are several studies done with subjects drinking alcoholic beverages or non alcoholic alternatives (non known to subjects).

The non alcoholic group does show inebriated behavior, even though no alcohol is present.

It shows that the convention of being less inhibited whilst drinking is a social construct, rather than an effect of the drink.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0.pdf

It's nonsense.

Alcohol interferes with neurological function. It doesn't reveal the truth about who you are any more than a head injury would.

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Age quod agis

Yup. We might take things a little further than normal, but start dropping the N-word or beating your spouse and that's not the alcohol talking. You're just an asshole.