I don’t really know what I’m talking about to be honest, but something I read before is that you don’t actually lose any memories, you just stop making them after a certain point. You become unable to actually store anything in long term memory.
So I would guess that there would be no way to recover said memories as they just wouldn’t exist in your mind.
When you’re blacked out, which happens if you drink too much, too fast, it’ll affect your memory. It’s literally impossible to form memories when you’re black out drunk, due to affects of alcohol on the hippocampus of the brain.
There’s nothing there to “get back”. If you drank enough to affect your memory, you didn’t lose memories, you never formed them to begin with.
Basically alcohol stimulates the production of a neurotransmitter called GABA. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter meaning it basically tells your neurons to stop firing/communicating. So your brain essentially starts to stop functions because of the increased presence of GABA in your system. This will eventually get the the point that you no longer form memories and is also responsible for the loss of coordination, balance, and judgment, and eventually will cause you to stop breathing/regulating basic bodily functions.
Massive oversimplification but that’s the understanding I got from some entry level neuroscience courses in college.
Edit: I don’t think you can recover the memories because they weren’t actually formed in the first place. But that is based on my very simplified understanding of the matter so take that with a grain of salt.
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I don’t really know what I’m talking about to be honest, but something I read before is that you don’t actually lose any memories, you just stop making them after a certain point. You become unable to actually store anything in long term memory.
So I would guess that there would be no way to recover said memories as they just wouldn’t exist in your mind.
When you’re blacked out, which happens if you drink too much, too fast, it’ll affect your memory. It’s literally impossible to form memories when you’re black out drunk, due to affects of alcohol on the hippocampus of the brain.
There’s nothing there to “get back”. If you drank enough to affect your memory, you didn’t lose memories, you never formed them to begin with.
Basically alcohol stimulates the production of a neurotransmitter called GABA. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter meaning it basically tells your neurons to stop firing/communicating. So your brain essentially starts to stop functions because of the increased presence of GABA in your system. This will eventually get the the point that you no longer form memories and is also responsible for the loss of coordination, balance, and judgment, and eventually will cause you to stop breathing/regulating basic bodily functions.
Massive oversimplification but that’s the understanding I got from some entry level neuroscience courses in college.
Edit: I don’t think you can recover the memories because they weren’t actually formed in the first place. But that is based on my very simplified understanding of the matter so take that with a grain of salt.
Hope that helps!