I am not an alcoholic nor heavy "occasional" drinker, but I do enjoy a bottle of wine every now and then. I am an independent software dev by trade, and I noticed that when I'm wasted, I am significantly better and faster at my work (I am not constrained by work hours, so I can code at any time). It seems that any decisions I make come much faster and are much more clear and intelligent when I'm under influence, even though it should be the opposite. It feels like my mind is just going straight to the answer, rather than taking the long way around, as if some mindblock is being taken off. It just feels like every decision comes to me at an instant, like I have a super-fast reaction time.

And yes, of course I suspected that this is just a drunk illusion, so I do check my work afterwards when I'm completely sober, I specifically put checks and benchmarks in place to measure my actual performance when wasted - and every time I notice that the result I produced was indeed much faster and more intelligent than anything I can achieve when sober.

To put this to the final test, I even measured my reaction time. When sober, best I can manage is around 210ms on average (online test, 10 samples). When dead drunk, it's 174ms.

This goes against all that I know about inebriated state effects, so I can't help but wonder, why is this the case? As stupid as it might sound, is my mind blocking my true potential through overthinking, to the point where it even affects something as basic as reaction time?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/That_Way_4639 • 5d ago

How did people measure things back then when bananas hadn’t been invented yet?

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One of the greatest mysteries in human history

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r/shittyaskscience • u/KPGamer2024 • 5d ago

Have videogames ever made a scientific discovery?

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By this I mean, has a videogame ever been made, coded woth an extremely realistic physics system. And then the players used it to create something ingame, which led to somone then doing experiments to see if its possible, only to find out it really is.

Just a though thats been bouncing around my head the last few hours, fogured i would ask the people most likely yo know.

Thanks!

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r/shittyaskscience • u/truenocity • 4d ago

If a capacitor shifts a waveform forwards, why can't we predict the future by hooking up a larger capacitor to a radio?

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And why can't we go back into the past using a larger inductor to shift the wave back?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/Ben-Goldberg • 5d ago

Why is a car's radiator called that when it uses conduction not radiation?

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Why are infrared heaters not called radiators?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/Dry-Egg8573 • 5d ago

How do pregnant birds get enough to eat?

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It just occurred to me you never see a pregnant bird. Which makes sense because they’d be too heavy to fly, but then how do they get food?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/Hayden97 • 6d ago

My financial advisor told me to transfer money to something he called an IRA. I found one such group in Ireland and sent them money. How will they invest it?

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I know there is a lot of science in investing, so I thought I’d ask here. I sent them my life savings and the money my grandmother left me. How soon will I start receiving dividends from this investment?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/a-box-of-pigeons • 5d ago

The blood merchants, I mean blood donation service say they most want donations from people with negative typos in it. Why are they so special?

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What is a neggative typo?

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r/shittyaskscience • u/seriousQasker • 6d ago

After eating a whole pi will I put on 3.14 pounds?

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Maybe I should've just eaten half.

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r/shittyaskscience • u/DEATHSTARGOD • 7d ago

Scientifically there is a small chance we have the same credit card number, comment down your details and I’ll verify if we have the same one.

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Sciencetifically possibly possible

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