One of the effects of psychedelic drugs is a feeling of deep significance in your altered state of awareness. This leads most people to try to rationalize the experience later as something spiritual, or extrasensory, etc., etc. not just being on drugs.

What I would like to know is, how exactly are the effects of alcohol any less significant than the effects of psychedelics? Why was sleeping with that fat chick while you were really drunk a stupid, and unfortunate act, while the pretty colors from your acid trip were so significant and life altering?