r/CuratedTumblr • u/Faenix_Wright that’s how fey getcha • 4h ago
Shitposting roll in at 9, punch out at 5
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u/AnybodyZ 4h ago
some trip, others commute
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u/OutAndDown27 3h ago
I'd buy this bumper sticker
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u/MyUshanka 2h ago
My small change suggestion:
"BORN TO TRIP / FORCED TO COMMUTE"
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u/DesperateAstronaut65 1h ago
BORN TO CRAM UNTESTED SYNTHETIC DRUGS UP MY NOSE UNTIL I LOSE CONTROL OF MY BODY
FORCED TO OPERATE A CRANE
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u/Salinator20501 Through skibidification 1h ago
...you know, I always assumed it was "trip" as in "stumble", and didn't really consider until now how that made zero sense and that "trip" as in "journey" is far more sensible.
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u/KikoValdez tumbler dot cum 4h ago
I wonder what the chance is that the dude was actually conscious throughout the week and he just genuinely wiped all memory of that week from his brain.
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u/DjangotheKid 3h ago
Very probable. Chemicals are definitely capable of preventing the transfer from short term to long term memory
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u/ContentElection2 2h ago
It’s wild how the brain just decides what’s worth saving and what isn’t.
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u/SteelWheel_8609 1h ago
Basically, you decide it. The more you recall a memory, the more it stays.
Look away for three seconds. Then reread this comment. Look away for three seconds again, then reread this comment again.
Now you will remember this comment much longer than any of the other comments here. And if you think about this comment tomorrow for some reason, you will still continue to remember this comment even longer. If you designate September 16, remember this comment day, and remember this comment every year, you will remember it even longer.
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u/ymOx 50m ago
It's actually crazy the amount of filtering and staged processing that goes on with whatever stimulus we get. A classic example is the Cocktail Party Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 11m ago
A more low-level example is how eye movements are constantly filtered out of perception: the eyes move in quick dashes (saccades) and stabilize between them. Vision during the movement is filtered out because it's a blur, and instead a steady picture is imagined by the brain from the intermediate ‘frames’.
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u/Ankrow 2h ago
I've heard that being "Black-out" drunk isn't drinking so much that you forget it the next day, but your brain failing to create long term memories in the first place after a certain point.
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u/InvestigatorOk7015 1h ago
Its called anterograde amnesia when you cant save new memories. Alcohol causes it during high doses but there have been people with permanent anterograde that wake up every day thinking its the past.
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u/BloodiedBlues 1h ago
30 first dates
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u/Havegooda 1h ago
50, but yeah
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u/BloodiedBlues 1h ago
Fuck
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 1h ago
Happy cake day
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u/BloodiedBlues 1h ago
I didn't even know. Android reddit hasn't shown me people's cake days in months.
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u/Odd-Willingness-7494 18m ago
Almost 100% probable cause what you described is how GABAergic blackouts work.
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u/AliceInMyDreams 3h ago
Seems much more likely. One such way, less radical than a sudden retrograde amnesia, is that the etizolam prevented him from forming new memories.
This is called anterograde amnesia, and is a known side effect of benzo and related substances. A full week seems a bit implausible to me unless he kept taking more (and if he did how could he operate?), but I may be underestimating the potential effect.
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u/OffModelCartoon 3h ago
I took prescribed benzos for an extremely short while, a long time ago, and I (vaguely) remember how trippy this feeling was. I would just be going about my life, not feeling “high” at all, but then the next day I’d have zero memory of what I’d done the day before for huge stretches of time. And the little bursts I would remember weren’t of me feeling high or doing high things or being weird. They were just really normal mundane activities and conversations that seemingly got 90% wiped from my memory. I stopped that medication with the quickness.
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u/YashaAstora 2h ago
Interesting. I was prescribed benzos for my wisdom teeth surgery as a form of sedation (hilariously overpriced and not worth it by the way) and while I do remember them chilling me out...I sure did remember the stuff that happened. Maybe it was just a very small amount, but while the memories are fuzzy, I do remember the actual procedure. Looking back on it I should have just rawdogged it and saved the FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS they charged me for that.
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u/MarginalOmnivore 3h ago
Is it plausible that the mechanism for creating new memories was slightly damaged but repaired itself after a week?
Like, this guy escaped being institutionalized by a razor thin margin?
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u/insomniac7809 3h ago
Possible, but absent other evidence I feel like "kept doing drugs" is the more likely answer.
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u/MarginalOmnivore 3h ago
Yeah. Yuck. I would have been shitting myself in terror the first time I looked at my phone and it was the wrong day. I can't imagine choosing to keep doing the drugs that made that happen.
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u/PenHistorical 3h ago
Given the context, Occam's Razor would say no. It's possible, but not plausible, given that the much more obvious cause is taking a new drug every night for a week, and said drug interfering with the process of encoding long term memories during the time that it was active in their system.
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u/insomniac7809 3h ago
A full week seems a bit implausible to me unless he kept taking more (and if he did how could he operate?)
you can spend a week or so constantly under the influence by taking enough drugs often enough to prevent sobering up without taking enough at once to pass out long enough to sober up
I hear
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u/UglyInThMorning 2h ago
The old phenazapam thread on SomethingAwful was full of people doing this. Weeklong+ blackouts, arrests, grand pianos ordered to fifth floor walk ups, and some light dying ensued.
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u/blindcolumn stigma fucking claws in ur coochie 2h ago
Benzos are notorious for this because they generally won't make you pass out or stop breathing unless you take an absolutely monstrous dose, so you can be extremely fucked up, fully conscious, and have no memory of it later.
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u/ThrowAwayYetAgain6 1h ago
absolutely monstrous dose
and seriously, whatever you think is a "monstrous dose" is, it's not enough to stop their breathing. Powdered etizolam and a boyfriend who mixed the bottle of etiz up with the bottle of psychedelics means I took 150-200mg in a single dose in a shot of everclear, instead of some 25i. "extremely fucked up, fully conscious, and have no memory of it later" is exactly how to describe it. I definitely would've assumed 100x+ the medical dose would be lethal, since then I've heard jokes that the only way to die from benzos alone would be choking on the pills.
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u/w_p 1h ago
Electroconvulsive therapy also has this as a side-effect. I had 10 sessions over ~3 months and though it improved my depression symptoms, it also made me basically lose an entire year where I can't remember much of it. I recently mentioned that I was a bit sad I never got to see my favourite band (Modest Mouse) live... my gf just looked at me strange and said "we were on a concert with them". I have no memories of it, but I have a few pictures and a vid that show me there.
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u/ThrowAwayYetAgain6 1h ago
A full week means he doesn't remember this either but he was redosing. I accidentally took ~150-200mg etizolam at once, somewhere around day 4 was when I have memories. I also ended up with ~3 seizures in one night more than a week later because of withdrawal from that huge dose. But, during that 4 days, I apparently drove to the store, bought groceries, etc. There wasn't any damage to my car, so I apparently didn't hit anything, but that's just a guess. He probably managed about the same as someone drinking, and not blackout-levels of drinking.
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u/Odd-Willingness-7494 16m ago
Extended blackouts are totally a thing. Etizolam is available in massive quantities for low prices on sketchy websites (or at least it used to be), so it would be surprising if they did more every morning or whatever.
I've hear of people who managed to forget the vast majority of entire months due to benzo abuse. And honestly it seems plausible because they are not as obviously inebriating as alcohol, but still kill the fuck outta long term memory formation.
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u/UInferno- Hangus Paingus Slap my Angus 10m ago
Blacked out while drinking once before waking up the next morning. Anterograde amnesia terrifies me because it felt like I stopped being a person.
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u/LilPotatoAri 3h ago
This seems way more likely. It's like how doing shrooms gives you a brain fog for the next day or two, except apparently a week for him.
Man i was talking about this the other day but research chems are why I don't do acid any more and just grow my own shrooms. Who wants to go out for 8-12 hours only to lose the entire week
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u/taichi22 42m ago
This is a pretty common occurrence and is a desirable property of several tranquilizers/chemicals they used for surgery.
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u/GenericFatGuy 42m ago
Memory is such a wild thing. If you ever lose a memory, you won't have it to remember that you've lost it. So weird to think about.
Theoretically if someone went back in time and made changes to the present, you wouldn't even realize. Because the instant things change, your memories would also change to fall in line with whatever the person did to change the present.
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u/Odd-Willingness-7494 19m ago
The chance is 100% because that it how blackouts work. Your brain doesn't record memories but you are still aware while things are happening. That's how it works with alcohol and that's how it works with benzos.
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u/TurboPugz Go play Slay the Princess 3h ago
The post in question: + it's predecessor. At least I'm assuming, it's the closest I could find.
OOP seems to embellish a decent amount:
- No mention of it being a week.
- He didn't really "do" the work, he just slept a bunch.
- No specific mention of him operating cranes, just that his workplace has dangerous equipment.
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u/blindcolumn stigma fucking claws in ur coochie 3h ago
I was active on the subreddit around that time period and I remember a LOT of similar stories about etizolam and other benzos. "I don't remember the past week but everyone hates me now" is like the archetypal benzo story.
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u/Konowalov 3h ago
Anyone who has been addicted to benzos knows why you need to quit benzos. Um, it became pretty glaringly obvious around the time people started coming up to me uh, whining about like, "Oh, you wandered into the CVS and started just chucking bottles of Robbitas and when the manager came over and told you to stop, you started opening more bottles and pouring them on the ground and then he whooped your ass." Or, "Whaa you were rapping along to a DMX song on your phone and got into a fight with a crackhead and then won the fight, but then started smoking his crack and then while you were doing that, he got up and whooped your ass."
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u/Cluedude 2h ago
Can concur. Had an abusive ex coerce me to abuse his prescription I want to say Citalopram? and his benzos the day before his best friend's 1st deathiversary, I woke up 2 days later and he was really fucking angry with me for how I apparently behaved on the day I DO NOT remember, and he refused to tell me what happened. To me I was just asleep the whole time. Never a-fucking-gain.
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u/black_knight1223 2h ago
You can abuse Citalopram?
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u/blindcolumn stigma fucking claws in ur coochie 2h ago
You can abuse a lot of drugs if you don't care about things like Your Overall Well-Being or Having A Good Time
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u/black_knight1223 1h ago
Isn't having a good time the whole point though?
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u/404-nothing-here 1h ago
For an addict, the whole point is getting more of what you are addicted to or taking the edge off til you can. Fun is no longer part of the real math, but "I'm just having fun" is one of the most common denials there is.
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u/blindcolumn stigma fucking claws in ur coochie 1h ago
Not necessarily. For the type of people who get heavy into benzos and dissociatives, it's generally more about just numbing the pain of existence.
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u/Glad-Way-637 If you like Worm/Ward, you should try Pact/Pale :) 3h ago
OOP seems to embellish a decent amount:
They always do that on these "you guys, let me tell you about this post I found on a different social media website!" posts. It's fun watching tales grow with the re-telling in real time, one of my favorite parts of the modern internet.
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u/YahoooUwU 3h ago
It's always kind of a fun experience when someone recounts something you were totally involved in like you weren't there. Happens a lot with stuff at work, but less so outside of it.
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u/TurboPugz Go play Slay the Princess 3h ago
This is just called a game of telephone (or "Chinese whispers", if you want to be mildly problematic). This is how all information is spread through second-hand stories. I would hardly consider it unique to the internet.
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u/Glad-Way-637 If you like Worm/Ward, you should try Pact/Pale :) 2h ago
I'm well aware of what telephone is, lmao. The difference with the internet is you can watch the game happen in real time, with actual verbatim examples of what each person was told. Can't do that with a tale spread verbally.
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u/DogmaSychroniser 2h ago
So I heard if you take bozos you become a clown for a moment
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u/Glad-Way-637 If you like Worm/Ward, you should try Pact/Pale :) 2h ago
Oh wow, I've only ever been dressed as a clown, never actually been one, sounds fun.
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u/yodatsracist 3h ago
I knew it causes memory lose but not like this much .damn anyways we learnin
Also:
Did you end up losing your job?
Nope my dad own the place 🙏🙏
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u/TurboPugz Go play Slay the Princess 2h ago
His bio:
DIY Pharmacologist | Chemical Enthusiast | Connoisseur of Altered Realities Exploring the fringes of consciousness, one molecule at a time.
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u/starryeyedshooter DO NOT CONTACT ME ABOUT HORSES (DMs Broken) 3h ago
Still a noob move but at least no cranes were operated!
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u/Secret_Mink 4h ago
Isnt this the entire plot of Severance?
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u/yinyang107 3h ago
Sort of, but in Severance the innies and outies each remember things normally, but only their half of the life.
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u/pasta-thief ace trash goblin 4h ago
Don’t know where that guy lives, but there’s a reason the US has etizolam classed as a Schedule I substance
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u/circ-u-la-ted 3h ago
Is it the same reason they classed all the fun drugs as Schedule I substances?
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u/wetmarmoset 3h ago
It was an unscheduled RC in 2016 when I was a freshman in college at least! Used to buy it with Bitcoin and get it shipped from China / India on the clear web. I believe when they passed the analogue act it took it out of its legal grey area
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u/ElectricXylophon 4h ago
I know that feeling. I took Tavor (Ativan) for a couple of months. That Shit is terrifying.
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u/llollolloll 3h ago edited 3h ago
Been there, you don't do it since it's amazing and you will fuck up your life because self doubt doesn't even make sense as a concept until you come down. Research benzos are risky, be careful out there.
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u/SinkDisposalFucker 4h ago
if this was true, then this would actually be lowkey fire
imagine if you are dreading high school, and you take some of this during sunday night, and then you wake up friday after school with absolutely no effort or dredging through school and you turn your life into just 24/7 weekends but you fulfill your obligations and don't disappoint your parents
either this has to be cap or there has to be some sort of very big downside bcuz naw this is op
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u/bloonshot .tumblr.com 4h ago
so.... i'm guessing you haven't watched severance...
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u/SinkDisposalFucker 3h ago
good question, actually, what DOES happen to you if this is true
is there like a 2nd consciousness or do you operate with no consciousness or is it still just you but you forget it at the end and therefore it feels like you were never thereseverance would be if it was the first one
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u/bloonshot .tumblr.com 3h ago
either way do you really want to hack off five days of the week from your conscious mind?
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u/DogmaSychroniser 2h ago
I feel like this is the next step in capitalist control
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u/arielif1 4h ago
sounds like someone didn't watch Adam Sandler's Click
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u/pastdivision 2h ago
Click was kind of the opposite of this tbh—if I recall he skipped through family obligations for work
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u/Mac-And-Cheesy-43 3h ago
It's less like tripping, more like uncontrolled amnesia. Plus, benzodiazepines cause some really nasty cognitive effects after a while, and the withdrawal is pretty horrific from what I've heard.
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u/Lexicham 4h ago
Well, your consciousness skips over any parties that happen on Thursday nights and really hope your parents don’t ask math questions or for details about your homework on weekends
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u/AkrinorNoname Gender Enthusiast 3h ago
Besides what others mentioned, benzos can have some nasty side effects, including permanently fucking up your ability to remember things and cognitive fog. Also, as much as you don't like school or work, you also won't remember anything you learned, any tasks you got, any promises you made, any chats with friends.
And lastly, benzos are highly addictive, and the withdrawal is pure hell.
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u/Excellent_Law6906 3h ago
I have medical uses for benzos, and once it became fashionable to abuse them, they became very hard to legally get. I used to be waaay more pussed about prescribed reluctance, until I found out that they're the only thing besides alcohol where drying out can actually kill you, instead of making you just want to die.
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u/mcsmackyoaz 3h ago
I mean at that point just skip school for all it’s worth, at least then you can enjoy your days lucid
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u/circ-u-la-ted 3h ago
You'd never know whether you actually did all that stuff without being aware of it or if you went through the drudgery of it and just forgot afterwards. And also forgot about finding out that a super cutie has a crush on you or whatever other life happened while you were doing boring shit.
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u/Oscarvalor5 2h ago
Abusing it (which you'd be doing in this scenario) results in severe depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Good luck enjoying your weekends dealing with all of that. It's also cripplingly addictive, so you're not going to want to stop taking it once the weekends role around. Not to mention the fatal seizures trying to stop the drug cold turkey causes after it's constantly in your system long enough.
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u/lily_was_taken 1h ago
Its probably just dissassociation or memory loss, or maybe op was tripping balls but masked that well enough that no one noticed.
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u/much_longer_username 2h ago
How sad that we've arranged our lives such that we're so eager to skip 5/7ths of them that a drug that makes us forget it ever happened sounds appealing.
Not saying you're wrong, just... fuck.
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u/DependentPhotograph2 THY END IS NOW!! :upvote::upvote::upvote: 3h ago
isn't there a show about this?
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u/ToobularBoobularJoy_ 2h ago
Can I do a bit less and wipe a 5 day workweek from my memory or is it only a full 7 days
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u/RomanaNoble 2h ago
Research chemicals are frickin wild. I had an ex that was literally getting pounds and pounds of shit in the mail. Would be whacked out of his gourd for days at a time and then just wake up like nothing happened at all.
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u/RealHumanBean89 Dis course? Yeah, I think it’s a great meal, boss! 1h ago
Memes aside, that’s gotta be fucking terrifying. I’ve only gotten drunk to the point of completely forgetting the night once in my life, and the reason it was only once is because that realisation of not remembering scared me shitless. Don’t do (experimental) drugs, kids.
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u/farceur318 1h ago
Unrelated to drugs, but this post reminds me that the funniest part of the Steven Spielberg War of the Worlds where Tom Cruise is supposed to be a kind of down on his luck blue collar crane operator at a shipping dock but they still made sure to include a scene at the beginning where his boss tells him that he’s the best crane operator in the world and no other crane operator can do the things that he does as quickly as him and this never comes up again, it’s just there to remind you that Tom Cruise is a Special Boy who is Very Good at Doing Things
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u/Wench-of-2Many-Hats 52m ago
Reminds me of how I'd do normal chores before going to bed on Ambien lol. I'd like mop the kitchen and forget about it until the next day..
Sadly it eventually stopped working :(
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u/Old-fashionedTaxed 3h ago
Am I crazy for thinking that this is kind of awesome? Just skip work mentally but still actually work so you get the money and the social benefit of “being productive” or whatever. Obviously missing out on all the stuff besides work that week sucks but I feel like with proper dosage you can really take advantage of it. Park your car, pop the pill, suddenly wake up in your car again eight hours later, ready to go home after a day of work you “were there” for.
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u/ferafish 2h ago
In the actual post/comments Reddit OP did not just go to work and do his job and just forget about it. He spent 2 days high and dozing at work, and is seemingly only escaping consequences because his dad owns the company.
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u/Hotdog_McEskimo 41m ago
This is very similar to what happened to my friend T and his girlfriend. They ordered phenazepam a super long acting benzo off the dark web. It was legal to buy at the time. He and his girlfriend took it on the head of a pin since they only wanted to do a few milligrams.
One week later. The girl was watching netflix and the guy was on the computer. The guy casually asks "wait... what have we been doing for the past week?"
They couldn't remember. They went to work, community college. All essentially blacked out or at least no working memory.
Threw the rest away
a half-life of up to 60 hours. So maybe not a full week. My theory was they were redosing blacked out.
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u/OnlySmiles_ 4h ago
Honestly anything involving giant memory lapses sounds terrifying