I’ve always wondered why people who drink too much and black out often can’t remember what they did. Now I know.

Blackouts: Walking, talking, flying high — and unconscious
“He told the nurse he wanted to talk to me because it was personal,” he said. “When I went in, he said he had gone to Seattle ‘on a drunk,’ and while there, his buddies had drank a lot and cut his testicles off. ”

“People in blackouts have done heart surgery and piloted airplanes,” Dr. Fischer says. “There’s no way to predict who will black out. There’s no way to do studies on animal models of blackouts. It’s a hard thing to study.”

…no hypnosis, “truth serum,” psychotherapy could bring a confession out of him because he was not repressing the memory, lying or being difficult: he never formed a memory.