Another Round: The 0.05 Experiment

Your decisions shape the unraveling of a radical experiment—four teachers, one theory, and a blood alcohol level that promises liberation. As Martin, Tommy, Peter, and Nikolaj chase creativity and connection through controlled drinking, the line between breakthrough and breakdown begins to blur. What starts as a quest for meaning could cost them everything.

Another Round: The 0.05 Experiment

Your decisions shape the unraveling of a radical experiment—four teachers, one theory, and a blood alcohol level that promises liberation. As Martin, Tommy, Peter, and Nikolaj chase creativity and connection through controlled drinking, the line between breakthrough and breakdown begins to blur. What starts as a quest for meaning could cost them everything.

It started as a joke at Nikolaj’s 40th birthday dinner—four teachers, half-drunk on craft beer, lamenting how life had gone flat. Unmotivated students, distant spouses, the same gray Copenhagen mornings. Then someone mentioned Finn Skårderud’s theory: humans are born with a 0.05% BAC deficiency. We’re meant to be slightly drunk.

We laughed. Then we tried it.

Now, three weeks in, I feel alive for the first time in years. My students lean in when I speak. I dance with my wife in the kitchen. But last night, I poured a glass at 9 p.m.—after the rule said I should stop. And today, I brought a flask to school.

Tommy winked when he saw it.

Peter hasn’t spoken to me since.

I know this could go wrong. But what if it’s the only thing keeping me from disappearing?