Is alcohol, truth serum?

Answer 1

i have always heard that there are two people who will never lie...drunks and babies...

Answer 2

The truth being relative, then perhaps alcohol is a truth serum. Things that are said when intoxicated may be versions of the truth. Who knows what lies deep in the subconscious mind and how much of it is indeed truth or desire? Alcohol can bring out the worst and sometimes the best depending on the person. Ultimately the listener must decide if they chose to believe the intoxicated. More than not, the drunk will not remember what was said.

Answer 3

For me it's more of a politics serum. For some reason, when I'm drunk, I get smart enough to talk politics. It's the weirdest thing. As far as being a truth serum, like someone said before, drunk people BS more than they tell the truth.

Answer 4

I haven't had the experience, myself. I think it depends on the person. Some people like to tease and joke when they are drunk-from what I've seen. I think your legs are truth serum(no offense meant). Drunks are in a fantasy world and can't think good so they might not be able to discern the truth.

Answer 5

yes and no

i've never met an alcoholic who tells the truth - especially when it comes to their drinking habits or where they've been and what they've been doing.

on the other hand, moderate and occasional drinking gives people the effect where they lose their inhibitions - no longer afraid to say something they normally wouldn't - and so in some cases you do hear and say things drunk that you wouldn't say sober - however - it can only be the amount of alcohol that causes you to lose the inhibition without becoming drunk - otherwise you will not remember the truth to its entirety, and it would no longer be the truth.

Make sense?

Answer 6

Alcohol is a depressant, which motives you to loosen up in maximum circumstances. based how plenty he's eating, some human beings often demonstrate some their hidden recommendations and secrets and strategies. you spot a guy or woman must be coherent to lie, yet you do no longer ought to be something to tell the fact, no longer even coherent. My element is which you will ought to decipher data as a good style of the time, a guy or woman who speaks on an identical time as they are drunk are extra desirable than probably telling the fact on how they experience approximately something. via the way, until he became punch drunk, maximum folk undergo in recommendations what they say.

Answer 7

To a degree, yes.
It relaxes many individuals to the point that they'll tell you anything.
Even stuff you really didn't want to know or cared to know about their private lives, secrets, even private stuff about other people.

If too much alcohol is consumed, you pass the point and their true inner-self comes to the surface... happy drunk or mean drunk. That's where you have to be careful in how you handle them.

Answer 8

In vino veritas. In wine there is truth. I believe that in many cases people's inhibitions are lowered by alcohol to the point they will say things they wouldn't under normal circumstances.

Answer 9

In my experience, seeing people act after a few drinks, yes.

Answer 10

you know, at times in the past, I could swear that you would be right! But in reality it just makes a person more brave or care less about who they hurt with what they do or say....

Answer 11

Are you kidding? You'll NEVER get the truth from a drunk! You'll usually get one hell of a story, though!