That being said when I don't drink it is tremendously different. I'm on a completely different spectrum. Every word spoken is carefully uttered and worried about.
The great part about all of this is it is self inflicted. We put up these barriers and gates to control our own actions. We also are completely in charge of pulling them down and rebuilding them in new ways.
<Pause> Currently reading how alcohol works on the body - two articles if you are curious
What happens when you drink alcohol?
How stuff works: How Alcoholism Works
Hmm...I like to refer to this as the rabbit hole. So Alcohol gets into your bloodstream gets to your liver and gets filtered out, but not all of it can be filtered. So essentially unfiltered blood is what causes the effects of drinking.
In the article above it describes two brain states:
- excitatory - stimulated electrical activity
- inhibitory - decreased electrical activity
So if alcohol is an inhibitor, is caffeine an excitatory? I also wonder if I've drank lots of caffeine and if I go out into an electrical storm am I more likely to get struck by lightning? What if I've been drinking am I less likely? I' m sure the amount of -/+ is so insignificant to have an impact on that...
Is this why caffeine sobers people? Given they have a sufficient amount of water? Ultimately - I'd imagine we'd need water to support both effects.
I've completely derailed from what I wanted to originally say or the reasoning behind this post.
I normally write what I'm going to say in a doc first. I normally read it over at least a dozen times before posting it, because I want to appear smart. Even though I'm completely aware that it doesn't matter. People will always disagree and agree. Understand or won't.
I need to write for me. So that is what this will be. An insight into my mind. A semi-unfiltered view of my thoughts, adventures and opinions.
Or at least at this point that is what I'm aiming for.
