mgm
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Sept 19, 2017 0:02:47 GMT
Post by mgm on Sept 19, 2017 0:02:47 GMT
When I first switched from drinking alcoholic beer to non-alcoholic beer due to health reasons, I used to experience what felt like a slight alcoholic buzz from the non-alcoholic beer - which I knew was impossible, but I swear that I felt it on many occasions!
I think what was going on was that my body had become so accustomed to the taste of the beer being accompanied by the bodily feeling that the beer produced, that even despite the absence of any actual alcohol my mind was being tricked by it's taste into recreating the associated sensations.
The sensations only appeared very subtly during the first few sips and then subsided fairly quickly - and it only occurred during the period while first transitioning from alcoholic beer to non-alcoholic beer. I don’t experience it anymore after having been drinking non-alcoholic beer for several years - I assume because my body is no longer anticipating a psychological change of any kind.
I'd say that in this situation the non-alcoholic beer was a powerful placebo, that tricked my body into producing sensations that it believed should be occurring as a result of a familiar stimulus.
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