My experience is a little different in that I do remember autopilot - I guess you'f call it a fugue state.
I was conscious but dazed.
The fugue always broke tho when I opened the bottle.
The last time it happened I was on SR and a few months sober
Had a terrible day, but that say the fugue broke on the walk back from the liquor store. I dumped the bottle and I've never had auto pilot again.
anyway my point was, like others have said, you do have choices, even in a fugue state when you 'come to'...it maybe a hard thing not to take a drink at that point but far from impossible too
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