Influence of Alcohol Smell and Imagination on the Condition of the Human Organism and Subjective Human Experience

TL;DR

This study demonstrates that alcohol smell and imagination can influence human physiological and subjective states, with effects lasting up to an hour, despite minimal actual alcohol presence in bodily fluids.

Contribution

It reveals the psychological and physiological impact of alcohol smell and imagination, highlighting effects independent of actual alcohol consumption.

Findings

Alcohol smell affects human organism condition.

Subjective feelings of intoxication can occur without actual alcohol intake.

Physiological markers of alcohol are rarely detected despite subjective effects.

Abstract

In this study, alcohol smell and imagination of alcohol has been shown to change the condition of a human organism.In this study, alcohol smell has been shown to change the condition of a human organism. Based on the test results, the presence of alcohol was observed upon breathing out, but was rarely observed in spits and much rarer in urines. This effect is most evident shortly after an olfactory perception of alcohol and continues for 60 min for some test persons. The test persons also noted the appearance of a subjective feeling of alcohol intoxication. However, the condition developed when the alcohol smell perception differed from the classical alcohol intoxication, i.e., the test subjects only have a few intoxication symptoms, and not one person would have all of them.