Thanks folks. I had a feeling there would be shared experiences here.

Ha... thinking about this brings back so many memories. Despite a few very bad things.. and cases where I'm lucky I'm alive... man those were fun years. I remember coming up with these 'grand, incredible' theories and ideas at parties and running about and getting everybody fired up (during grad school in biology). Then the next day nobody could really remember them and neither could I.. and I was always disappointed.

Jeez.. more memories. During the time of my 'party-theorizing' was when I filled out an entire notebook with this theory of evolution I was coming up with that synthesized a bunch of other ideas together (I was sober when writing). I kept working on it until I started realizing how bad of an idea it was. I remember having this huge sense of relief that I never showed it to my professor. So yeah.. I can definitely see how the mood I was in while sober would amplify with alcohol.