![]() He's good looking, he gets invited to all the parties, and his peers worship the ground he walks on. When we drink, not even our hearts are sober.” Drunk people are prone to saying things they don’t mean and often don’t even remember the next day."Can I tell you a secret? I like talking to you," Nicholas Clairmontsays, “So does a drunk mind speak a sober heart? No. In many cases, people are more vulnerable to say things they normally wouldn’t when they drink because their brain is not in the right state of mind, but I think that alcohol is not to blame. You are responsible for knowing how much alcohol you can consume to still be functioning and coherent to what you are doing/saying. I hate when people give the excuse, “Oh it was because I was drunk.” I believe that you are to blame for your actions. There is no way you could really study if someones drunk words were sober thoughts. The experiment in this case would be ridiculous you would probably have to get people to take a lie detecter test ask them a series of questions and then get them intoxicated to some level and make them take it again. I also agree to an extent that “drunk words speak sober thoughts.” But as Julia said, I don’t know how one could test this either. Post navigation Previous post: ← Breakfast and Academic Performance Next post: Do children in the foster care system do worse in school? → This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Septemby Emily Peacock. “”A Drunk Mind Speaks A Sober Heart.” Really? | Big Think.” Big Think. ![]() Regardless, I firmly agree with the idea that sober thoughts are drunken words, even if science thinks otherwise.Ī quick side note: months after Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic rant, Gibson reportedly “checked himself into an undisclosed rehabilitation program” (CBS News). Others may feel more relaxed and comfortable when meeting new people. ![]() Some have the bravery to release secrets in other (sober) situations would be better left unsaid. For some, alcohol works as a megaphone from the brain to real world. In Gibson’s case, I believe that in his mind he truly believed Jews were responsible for each major catastrophe he had listed, and, in every aspect of the word, is in fact an anti-Semite. Beer does not have the power to make someone fall madly in love with someone they’ve known for year. Vodka cannot force a person to hate a certain religion or race. Gibson, alcohol does not have brainwashing capabilities. Instead, he lead the public to believe that alcohol had poisoned his mind, leaving him with these nasty remarks. Gibson, however, claimed that he was not anti-Semitic, bigoted, nor was he an alcoholic. In 2002, actor Mel Gibson -in a drunken haze- “reportedly said Jews were responsible for all the wars in the world” ( CBS News), as well as other offensive and anti-Semitic remarks. ![]() Although it can be argued that alcohol has the capacity to make one fearless and ignorant, “it does not simply tear down our inhibitions and let loose desires that were already there” (“A Drunk Mind Speaks a Sober Heart” 14).ĭespite these arguments, I feel obligated to disagree with the idea that alcohol is in fact not a truth serum. is the part of the brain most responsible for reasoning and judgement” (“A Drunk Mind Speaks a Sober Heart” 13). From what they do understand, scientists have concluded that “alcohol affects the hippocampus (memory center), which is why we black out, the motor cortex, which is why we stumble, and the neofrontal cortex. So far, scientists have only come to understand a small portion of our brain. We’ve all heard the phrase “drunken words are sober thoughts”, but is there any real truth behind it? “Just another night in college,” you might think to yourself. He/she sounds a little intoxicated and begins to pour his/her heart out to you over the phone, revealing that he’s/she’s liked you since the fifth grade. It’s 2 in the morning on a Friday and you get a call from one of your closest friends from back home. ![]()
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