My best and worst experiences with mind-altering chemicals 

Hell froze over: I heard Lindybeige complain about long stories and tangents 🤣

As an ex bartender who used to drink a LOT I can promise you that having no memories after several drinks is very common. Total blackout that I had no idea how I got home is quite rare. But many parties were turned to a "slide show" in my memory. Not bragging. But it happens.

Can confirm you can get so drunk you cant remember last night

I have been so drunk that I woke up the next day at 7 pm with no memory of the second half of my night, or how I ended up where I slept

it's an unspoken social guideline that any embarrassing act you commit while drunk must be forgotten by you and your peers.

You can indeed get so drunk you forget the night before. If you have never experienced it then you are probably a responsible drinker lol.

The phrasing of alcohol or drugs is probably just our societal problem of not treating alcohol as a hard drug

I wish my "worst drunk experiences" were as mild as Lindy's. My ones are not even in the same category.

With that title I expected a rant about opium and absynthe, not cider and beer lol

I have heard this advice when it comes to drinking. "Never get drunk when you are sad, only when you are happy". I think that is a good advice. CAn't remember who said that to me.

I chugged a whole 750ml of vodka one night and I cannot recall the entire night but the things I was told I did were remembered by everyone else very vividly

We all need to get Lindy properly pissed 😂

i have literally been black out drunk on many many many occasions . i have no memories of vast parts of my nocturnal youth . i have slept with women, stolen vehicles, had fist fights and even climbed into bed with my new girlfriends mother all whilst totally blacked out . i swear on every ounce of my being that at best i have one or two blurry still images in my head . the final straw was the violence . i was assaulting my friends and even hospitalised a man i had a fight with all while i have no single memory of the event . i have had to remain sober since the age of 20 one day at a time , as i was a total nightmare and when your friends are hesitant to have a casual lunch beer with you on a friday afternoon for fear of being assaulted or caught up in a car chase or when your brother buys handcuffs and zip ties to take to your bbq and issues them to your friends and instructs them to pin me down and restrain me if needed , you know its time to stop drinking

My suspicions are confirmed, Lindy is a certified square. If he experienced how people drink down in Portugal, especially during warmer months he would screan.

About 15 years ago, some friends decided they needed to get me drunk, so took me out and paid for drinks. They discovered that when I get drunk, it doesn't reveal my inner uninhibited party animal; instead, I get quiet and even more serious than usual. They never bothered trying to get me drunk again after that.

I never thought I needed to hear Lindy’s answer to this question, but now I can’t resist finding out.

I can honestly say that I have both lied about not being able to remember (saying things), and plenty of instances where I can't remember until someone reminds me. And also where I just can't remember to this day: fell of my bicycle, nearly broke my arm, nobody was with me so nobody can remind me where it was. Don't even know what route I took. When I woke up my bed and I were covered in blood, couldn't remember why (came back later but as I said, not the location).

At last, my specialist subject. I'm taking the risk of sounding incredibly irresponsible but my first week on heroin was the best time of my life. It was better than any other feeling I have felt before or since. The fact that subsequent weeks were spent chasing the first one showed me how dangerous the drug is. Crack comes a distant second along with MDMA. Crack extremely moreish but ultimately disappointing as the effects take a horrible toll on you which becomes noticeable to others quite quickly. MDMA was very good in the late 80's and early 90's but is barely recognisable these days. Oh, cocaine is and always has been a waste of time. It is basically speed for cowards. On speed, if you don't end up in a prostitutes den with no memory and symptoms of a heart attack then you aren't doing it right. I will finish by saying I'm clean now for 15 years.

From my experience if somebody says 'I don't remember what happened last night' they usually just don't rember the last 30min to an hour before they went to sleep/passed out

Oolalaa look at mr gucci loafers with his blue ray

Hi Lindy, long time listener, first time caller. I have woken up 5 in the morning in front of my apartment with tongue as dry as a sand paper. To this day I have no recollection of what happened the night before, or how I got there. I was wearing someone else's jacket. One of my shoes was missing. My pockets were empty. No phone or wallet or the stash of $5 and $1 bills in my side pocket. It seemed like an agent from Men in Black came down to earth and wiped my memory. So believe me, people who claim they can't remember what they were doing last night because they were drunk were certainly not making an excuse.

I don't understand why Lindybeige never got picked up by a major television network. This is good family content that frankly anyone could relate to.

The best hangover cure is drinking enough water the night before with the alcohol as not to get dehydrated.

YOUR reality is great. One thing I've learned over the last 5-10 years is that everyone is living their own reality.

LSD in the 1970s was very good; it really demonstrated pattern recognition in the brain. Now, playing electric guitar is enhanced with marijuana. The worst experience was with alcohol 30+ yrs ago, after a painful bereavement, drinking neat vodka. I woke up the next morning and had to go to A&E to have stitches in my arm after falling down, breaking the bottle with my arm.

Remembering last night? Dude, I didn't remeber waking up the following morning! The realisation stopped me in the kitchen doorway dead in my tracks - couldn't remember anything except that I was on the way to put the kettlre on... my friend came downstairs shortly after and helped me out by explaining I'd fell asleep in the dogs bed and looked quite comfortable the dogs bed was _in_ the kitchen

I do agree that not liking reality very much is an essential component to the enjoyment of most drugs, especially in higher doses.

immediately checked the date when he said "whilst watchinga blue ray" six days ago, all the power to you

Chocolate milk goes well with a nice high quality dark rum. I call it a "sweet pirates kiss."

Always love coming back to this channel, thanks for your work

0:38 That is ABSOLUTELY incorrect. I have blacked out well over a hundred times and I'm only 28... I get that you don't drink that much and that's fantastic, but I think the fact that you haven't ever felt it is sending you down conspiracy lane. It is super normal for people that can't hold their liquor like me (or doesn't want to). 90% are trying to cover their ass? Not a chance, try 5-10% and maybe you're onto something...

I love the thought 'Drunk/Stoned people are boring.' Way better message than 'No, you shouldn't do drugs, that's for criminals!' Not to mention the kind of stoners who turn weed into their whole personality, and can't talk about or do anything else.

I love Mr Lindybeige to pieces. But OMG, what a sheltered life he's lived.

Honestly, if you know that get a bit grouchy from drinking, kudos for taking it easy. I know a couple of people who get mean-spirited after they've had a few and I really wish that they would recognize their destructive behavior patterns.

Sorry to hear about your back, Lindy. It sucks that a random act of stupidity can still have repercussions on your health to this day. As a village drunk, only 2 times have I ever blacked out. Out of 1000+ drunken nights maybe this statistic is good? (probably not) I tend to remember most of the nights, but after a certain volume of alcohol enters my body all my short-term memories enter a dumpster. Both times this happened, the people around me commented to me the next day that I had started repeating myself. The first time, I ended up ranting about and cursing out a coworker who I'd learned that afternoon was a flat-earther. I'd had a long debate with her at work until my manager told us to stop, and I couldn't let it go apparently. This was recorded on my friend's phone and watching it back was probably the most embarrassed I'd ever felt, even if drunk me was justified in his rage against anti-science people The second time it happened, I was watching a drama with friends and evidently I kept interrupting it to ask if anyone was crying, until blackout me decided to go to bed. So I can't speak for everyone, but at least when I'm blacked out you know it because I apparently become annoying as hell but not evil, thankfully. It's a freaky sensation, honestly. Waking up to realize that I don't know what I did during the past 6-12 hours is a chilling feeling, even if I didn't do anything that bad. I've since decided that if the worst blackout-me can do is swear at flat earthers and be a little annoying during movies, I can't be too bad of a person at heart. But yeah. I respect people who don't get drunk. Especially those who beat the addiction. Kudos

Don’t drink alone is great advice. I was drinking quite heavily to escape a terrible job for a while, I’d get horribly drunk whilst watching movies ans youtube. One night, my electricity went out and I was left to sit in the dark with nothing to do but think. I worked myself up into a panic attack, which I’ve never had before. Thankfully that was enough to nix the habit before it became a serious problem. I quit drinking for a while, along with my job

00:37 Lloyd, I promise, you absolutely will lose your memory if you drink enough.

About the guy who spilled his beer on the board games: once is an accident, second time is a coincidence, third time is a pattern.

I used to watch your channel and just got reminded about this video for some reason. Missed u dawg

Saying that people who get so drunk they report 'they can't remember what they did last night' are liars is somewhat trivialising what could be a sign of a very serious illness.

Defo had sections of various nights I can't remember, there's a reason they call it black out drunk. I apparently made drinking buddies for various evenings none of whom I remember but my friends told me all about them.

I am glad you came away from drugs largely unscathed, I hope that continues in your journey.

I've only experienced a blackout once due to smoking some extra strong weed whilst pretty drunk. Can't remember anything 5 minutes after smoking that joint and I found myself in my bed at home the next day with a chicken-shaped egg timer in my jeans pocket. From what I gathered afterward, though, it was likely the smacking my head off a table in my disorientation which was the biggest factor. Never smoke weed when drunk...

Dammit Cath And I am exceedingly jealous of Lloyd's ability to be content with straight, unfiltered reality. I'm literally only capable of happiness when I'm stoned, or asleep.

I'm 25. I've used every class of drug, including the most poweful and addictive ones when I was on the street. I don't regret most experiences. But now I'm older, I just don't like my mind being altered. Maybe numbed by alcohol or lightly stimulated by caffeine, but nothing stronger. Even alcohol affects me differently now though. I get terrible bkackouts just from a small amount, and it makes me tired and bloated, not energised and euphoric like it did at 15. These days I much prefer simple boring things like food, TV, and gardening over drugs.

You should try taking shrooms and going on a walk in the evening. Drugs will begin to make sense.

Once I got so drunk that I remember only about 1/3rd of the night, and only realized that when I heard stories about the previous night and realized that the last thing I could remember wasn't even close to the time I got to bed, there were some solid 4 hours were I was alive and "alert" but can't remember a single thing, it might as well not even be me, just a random guy living in my body.

That ending was hilarious 😂

I did once, get absolutely hammered on 50 pence. I'd just qualified for our uni's university challenge team (as the substitute member) and after a drink thought "Hmmmm, better bone up on my quiz skills...Oooooh it's quiz night at the student union!" Any way skipped down to the SU and paid my 50p - I decided not to join a team and go solo, to add pressure. I hadn't thought this through - as answers had to come via the team captain... so I was inherently faster with my answers. There were 5 rounds the first, third and fifth were written answer sheets the second and fourth were first to answer. And you got a drink for each correct answer (remember, I'm alone...) I got slaughtered. One of the other competitors whom I knew, later told me that at one point the quiz organizers actually asked if I wanted to sit the next round out to give everyone else a chance. I'd also finished the Guinness, the whiskey and ended up speedballing sherry. I've had a couple of 'red flags' about drinking - I moved to Dublin and jumped into the drinking culture. One day I was sitting in a bar nursing a hangover and I said to the head barman 'Jesus, I had too much to drink last night' The barman looked at me and said "Nah, I've seen you drink more, and you can drink, I mean really drink. You can also handle your drink. When you first came here I thought 'uh-oh we'll need an ambulance' but off you wobbled into the night at closing time, only to return and do the same the following night. You're a pleasant drunk." I took that in the way you would if a stuntman says 'Bollocks! I ain't doing that, that's dangerous!' Sage words on the drugs front, I agree with you 100% - I've seen people that have taken trips and come back without all their luggage so to speak. Some are still suffering the consequences.

I was never an alcoholic, but definitely a binge drinker, and have experimented with different stuff over the years but it's so refreshing to hear "I am my mind, I am my brain, I don't want to damage it". There are far too many people that have very nonchalant views on this stuff and don't realise the damage it can cause. I've been t-total for years now but I still feel some of the consequences. My memory, especially for things in my childhood and teens, has gotten worse and I just feel less sharp as I used to. This has gotten better over time but I don't think it has been worth it for a few nights of "fun"! There are so many amazing things that you can see and do sober that make drugs pointless imo.

4:30 I've been with a group of people who were all stoned and we started playing music, having a jam together! (My bf used to work as a truck driver and spot light operator on rock music tours and had bought a lot of musical equipment and amplification). So, we definitely were not just sitting around, being boring and feeling bored! (I'd always end up in fits of giggles that wouldn't stop)

My worst experience with drugs was when i had a panic attack my first time taking psychedelic mushrooms but that was also my best because i met this guy and i went over to his house and we drank and laughed and watched anime all night while tripping on mushrooms.

Drugs don't destroy brains when used in moderation. They do alter the chemistry for a while but it all goes back to normal just like with alcohol for example. Although some drugs like alcohol does actually destroy your brain and body. Know what you're taking and how to use it properly.

Watching movies on a Friday night at home while high on magic mushroom chocolates is really fun. Remember to turn the lights off and turn the volume up

Alkohol is a drug, one of the most dangerous ones in fact. It always annoyes me when people put them in sepperat groups, because it paints the wrong picture. That being: Legal substance->no Drug->safe illigal substance ->Drug->safe. But this is just a pet peeve of mine and dosent really have anything to do with the vid, so.....great video , i always enjoy your videos!

0:50 I can only think of one time I was drunk enough to forget stuff. The memory of the incident stuck around because it surprised me so much: I basically remember the evening up until I was sitting on a sofa, then fell/lay down sideways, and I woke up in that same place and position. So to me, I just had a sleep on the sofa and that's it. Except everyone else there said that I got back up for at least two hours after that (based on when certain people arrived), socializing with people etc. Didn't do anything embarrassing or particularly weird during that time, so shouldn't have a reason to repress or deny it either. So either I forgot about it, or several people got together to make up a story about me being awake after I'd first fallen asleep, but made the story entirely mundane and inconsequential.

His talking about enjoying reality remined me of his video about his not wearing sunglasses. He seems to want to experience the world "as is"

Never drinking alone is extremely good advice. Possibly allowed for drinking with others in a group call doing an activity, but still mild drinking. Anything beyond is an in-person thing. Hangovers are an odd thing. Couple of times it's made sense. One time was from a single beer... I always wonder if a spiking was involved there.

Similar to other people in the comments it has been many times that I cannot remember anything after a point whilst very drunk. And, the opinion that ''reality is great' can change based on one's circumstances in life, for many people their reality is quite inescapably painful.

I can definitely confirm not being able to remember last night. More often than not, being able to remember what happened would have really helped my anxiety the next morning. The last time I ever got way-way-way too drunk, I woke up on the bathroom floor, not knowing how I got home apart from having the most vague memory of being in an Uber at some point. I retraced what I could remember of my steps and came to the conclusion that I'd left the bar without settling my bill and left my credit card there. So I, very hungover, got dressed and psyched up to drive 20 minutes out to the bar I left. Grabbed my keys and wallet and headed out when they opened for the morning. It didn't occur to me to actually check my wallet until I'd parked... only to find that I had, in fact, gotten my card back. I assume I'd paid for my bill and been given it back. But I may as well have swung on a giant chandelier and taken my card back by threatening the bartender at the point of a rapier. I texted a friend that was out with me the night before and asked if I'd embarrassed myself and she said "no, why? you were being kinda silly but nothing unusual." I spent the rest of the day feeling awful and worrying that I'd absolutely humiliated myself and just couldn't remember. I've heard absolutely hilarious stories about myself the next day from when I was in college. I've had conversations with people that I ended up repeating upon "meeting" them for the "first time", not having remembered the first time. I've been lucky enough not to do anything too outrageous or embarrassing in my years of drinking (I think). The worst thing I've been told is that a friend and I started to raise voices at each other arguing about whether or not Modest Mouse's newer stuff was better than their older stuff (circa 2006). Psychedelics are a whole other story. Reality is great. So is altered reality. It's REALLY nice to be able to put your brain in a different space and shake up your perspective on what normal life is. The lack of hangover is a real plus too. Good riddance to getting hammered. Hello listening to Emerson Lake and Palmer while seeing crystal cathedrals turn into beautiful space octopuses as I reframe my grief over the death of a family member.

"Reality's great!" That's ironically delusional.

Also, I've gotten so drunk I genuinely have blocked out memories. Its not some universal experience apparently but I've only had that happen once, and haven't gotten that drunk since.

On the drunk amnesia, i can confirm both sides of the fence. Yes, sometimes people get drunk, fuck up, and pretend not to remember. And Yes people get drunk and are completely, permanently unable to recall what went on, what they did and what happened.

I get the alcohol suddenly becoming hard to drink thing too, and have also never been too drunk to remember what I did. I can be halfway through an alcoholic drink and it will switch from tasting fine to being the most repulsive thing to me. My suspicion is that this happens before the point where you'd black out. This is also the first time I've heard someone else mention alcohol suddenly changing to being unpleasant, so I suspect it's not super common.

Watching this with a hangover, after getting drunk alone in my room last night 🙃

I've been so drunk I genuinely don't remember what happened for the entire night. It's like just empty spaces between memories I suppose. I remember going to the pub, then another, and another, downing Rum and Coke like it was water. However later that night, I might've been 6 or 8 heavy rum and cokes in, and my memory gets spotty at best. I remember going to a club, staying there for a few minutes (or more) then beginning my walk home, at around 2AM I had walked about 12km between the city and my home town, lost my cap, and fallen asleep in a ditch. The Police picked me up and I was taken home. When people say that they don't remember *Anything* they are obviously pointing to the fact that if they tried to remember it wouldn't be a good account.

My man is astral projecting!

I got so drunk in Rome that I blacked out and woke up on a street with no idea how I got there - it definitely happens

I am happy to learn we share the same perspective on alcohol and drugs.

Some people definitely get memory loss, and some people, like myself, do not. I've passed out, vomited, and been unable to move I was so drunk (some 20 years ago), but my mind was still functional enough to form memories and I knew everything going on and confirmed my memories with other people who were much less intoxicated. On the other hand, I've seen people have 6 drinks, be able to function (talk, walk, etc.) but have completely no memory of anything the next day. And there wasn't any reason for them to pretend they couldn't remember, they didn't do anything bad or anything like that.

Came here expecting to hear about Lindy doing acid. Stayed for the tangent. Thanks!

Only times I "missed" something during drinking was when I got blackout as well.... and most of the time talking it through with people who were there, some memories came back. I think it have to do with long term memories being created during sleep and alcohol is disrupting sleep. The most common thing for me is not to remember phone calls.

One hangover in a lifetime? How lucky you are! Sometimes I get a hangover after just one sip of whatever I drink, and it only gets worse as I finish the glass. Other times, I don't get a hangover, and it's a mystery to me why.

I'm one of these people whose inability to sin is mistaken for virtue 😂. I usually get violently sick before I get actually drunk. One beer on occasion and it's playing with fire as it is.

Regularly had no memory of how the hell i got home. The common explanation amongst my friends in london was "angels on mopeds".

As someone who drinks a lot. No, you can definitely forget.

0:45 The only time I got actually drunk was on vaction in Croatia. The last thing I remember was going to a store to get more liquor and next morning I woke up in a bush in Slovenia. You absolutely can get so drunk you can't remember last nigh and I'm not proud to admit I know that from personal experience...

There is nothing more terrifying, than waling up naked or with ripped clothing, no wallet or phone and zero memory of last night, and then panic dialling everyone at 8am to find out what happened and no one answers.

I can personally confirm that on more than one occasion I cannot actually remember when I started drinking but I knew the next morning/afternoon that I had been. I don't drink anymore.

You most definitely can drink so much that you cannot remember later portions of your intoxication.

Reality can be great for some people, but not everyone.

In the UK the saying is "Drugs & Alcohol", in the US it's now "Drugs, Cannabis & Alcohol". No skirting that this _is_ a contradiction.

My current downstairs neighbour has a drinking and drugs problem. She also likes to stay up all night, used to have nightly parties 3 to 4 times per week every week for 5 months! Went even to rehab for it, but didn't help that much she still drinks. At least she now stays quiet when I'm trying to sleep...

I think I've had two occasions in my life where I couldn't remember parts of the night before, and I'm quite a heavy drinker. But then I have a very good memory (good at pub quizzes etc.)

I used to refuse any kind of mind altering substance on the same ground as you: I don't want to "damage" my brain or alter who I am. Let alone depend on a substance to be myself. But in recent years I have completely turned around. I think it started with the realisation that the monolithic identity I used to perceive was but an illusion, and that the farther back in time I look, the less I identify with who "I" used to be. There is no one "me" like there is no one ship of Theseus, merely an ever changing arrangement of stuff that we label "that person" or "that ship". To imagine that not taking a drug would keep me unchanged would be a complete lie. So I've started to accept medication for some of my issues (though admittedly those issues have as much to do with me as with society being unwilling to cater to how different brains can work but that's another matter entirely). Still I know tomorrow's me will inherit consequences of my actions so I'm not going to cause them a hangover or anything I would consider unpleasant, but I am now open to the idea of trying some things in the future.

I do recall being drunk enough in a office party when i was an intern, that my boss had to escort me home shoulder to shoulder in the early hours of the morning. Didn't get a job in the company unfortunately after the internship.

I have similar bodily effect as Lloyd. I can drink quite a bit, but once it's nearing the edge of drunkenness, it becomes quite hard to swallow anything alcoholic. This is why I only have one bad drunken experience, where I forced myself to drink more as some sort of masochistic endeavour brought on by a bit of anger that I had with myself.

Mr Loyd, I assure you with all my heart - half the times I drink I can barely remember what happened, and the other half I remember ABSOULOUTELY nothing. 50% of me drinking I end up with no recollection of what happened, NONE at all. Not an image, a sound or a smell that I can recount. I drink all the time, and I TOTALY black out around half the time

In my Special Brew days (daze) i genuinely had mental blackouts, which is quite dangerous. One time I when I woke up next day I had 3 door knobs that I'd wrenched off doors somewhere or other. Zero recollection though.

I'll throw my hat in as well, and say that it is absolutely possible to drink enough to impact your memory greatly, but I'll add that a complete blackout is something I've only experienced a couple of times, usually drinking moonshine with 96% alcohol in my youth, in the local parlance referred to as "nine-six". Usually it's just very foggy, and you kinda have to explore your memories to regain access, or have someone refer to something that happened which activates some kind of memory cascade.

I've probably accumulated over the course of my life months of time in terms of hours that i was fully conscious and doing things that never crystalized as long term memory because i was so inebriated

Been drunk af hundreds of times. Never forgot anything. Even once took a swig of some girls bottle that apparently had some meds mixed in and i couldn't see (with my brain at least) anything for a few hours. Was walking somewhere like nothing was wrong when "woke up". Still remember that too.

I've reached the age where I can't remember last night even without drinking. Then again, my life is so dull that there's nothing TO remember. Back many years ago when I did over indulge, I never had so much to drink that I couldn't remember; however, on one or two occasions people I was drinking with told me about things happening while we were drinking which I was absolutely positive DIDN'T happen... which is somewhat disconcerting.

It is definately possible to be so drunk you can’t remember the previous night. But people without a doubt lie about not being able to more often than not.

You are right. One of the most tiresome things about alcohol is having to suffer the company of others who are drinking.

Greetings and salutations Lloyd. Big fan. You will most likely never read this comment, however id like to say a few words. You have been among my favourite creators on this platform since I started watching you a decade ago at the impressionable age of 13. You’ve been the inspiration and source for much of how I now view the world. Truly, I hold you in highest regard as a true gentleman, and a paragon of chivalrous, healthy and authentic masculinity. Over the years, as I matured and came of age, I have come to see you as a role model. Thank you for all the content, wisdom and laughter you have given. Can’t wait to see what you will do in the next 10 years😊

I have an 8 inch long scar on my leg from when I leapt a barbed wire fence at uni trying to make a shortcut to the services to see if burger king was still open. It is almost an inch wide at one point. I do not remember doing it and I'm glad for that. Also, I did get my burger.

Drinking memory loss affects some more than others. I was on your boat too; "They must have some vague memory" and assumed it was like remembering a dream, where it's almost there but not in full colour. However I tried Valium a few times and I experienced it. It is an absolutely bizarre feeling. Not even a scrap of memory. The same memories you would recollect if you tried to remember before you existed, pure nothingness. Your existing memories tell you there was a start and an end, but the middle simply does not exist. And no amount of others recounting your horrible actions or even showing you videos will bring them back. It's wrong to think that you have lost the memories, it's more accurate to say they were never recorded.

Too drunk to remember is a thing; although I’ve never been completely black-out drunk, I have certainly woken up with no recollection of how I got home, and some nights out have been remembered more like the memory of a dream than actual events. People I trust have assured me that I didn’t do anything which would require an excuse on such occasions.

“I don’t feel that the world is insufficiently marvelous.”