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felt like this is something to share with all you anonimous fellow drunks out there...

tonight is the first night I got drunk while I wore my newbie contact lenses. Less blurry for sure but still the double vision. Never keen on wearing glasses, esp in pubs. Silly yeah
BBQ and bottles from the castrated bull and cold-cold-cans of Karlsquell. Tequila shooters and some of that wacky tobaccy.

anyway, the reason I started this thread:
what causes the "seeing sh*t duplicated while hammered" thingie? Multiple-vision.
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mostly things just spin for me
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I don't mind seeing double. But I enjoy drinking double(s) much, much more.
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Look at it this way. If you see 2 boobies when you're undrunk, you'll see 4 when you're hammered. That is always a good thing.
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It happens to me when I get plastered. What's happening is you're losing coordination of your eyes. Like a chameleon.

I don't like it myself. Spins are sure to follow, and then getting sick. And getting sick is a terrible waste of alcohol.
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Best line ever about seeing double. "I have two guns. One for each of you."
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Palinka posted the medical reason a while ago. As his self-appointed PA-C, I'll pass on that diplopia is produced by your brain's inability to coordinate binocular imaging, both through the mechanism of focusing your eyes correctly (see also vertigo, specifically positional alcohol nystagmus), and by your brain being reXX0r'd.
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You know you're on your way when you have to cross your eyes to read.
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I don't usually see double but things get hard to read.
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Kristin wrote:I don't usually see double but things get hard to read.
In that situation, I chalk it up to the piece in question not being worthy of my reading.
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I just close one eye. Problem solved.
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Post by fishy »

Nil wrote:I just close one eye. Problem solved.
Me too, it seems to work pretty well. I swap eyes periodically, just to keep things fresh.
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this is why pirates wear eye patches. well, it's why i wear eyepatches, anyway.
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I don't remember seeing double. But, I probably do pretty often.
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Post by Gin McGuinness »

never seen double... but swimming surroundings... that's my gig
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