I'm asking this as I see it happen so often in various movies/books and I always wonder if this would indeed work or if it is merely unrealistic and impossible.
It is happening all the time that people in various stories put something in another one's drink and, like a few seconds or maybe 1-2 minutes later that person suddenly says someting about feeling strange and immediately falls down to the ground, unconscious.
I'm not talking about poisoning someone, just knocking people out.
As much as I know about such things, drugs would have to stay inside your stomach for a while (I'd say at least 15-30 minutes depending on what you've eaten and when) before there would be any effect at all. Then, but this is just a guess, I'd say this effect won't come all of a sudden, but it should take at least a few minutes of feeling dizzy before the person is indeed knocked out, wouldn't it?
I just want to know this in general, as I thought about using it in a future part of my story, but as this part is just outlined and nothing more I can't give any specific info (and as I think it is not so realistic anyway I didn't bother thinking about details yet). "The reader doesn't care if it is realistic" and such doesn't help, because unfortunately I do care about such things. I couldn't bring myself to write something I know would not be logically working.
It is happening all the time that people in various stories put something in another one's drink and, like a few seconds or maybe 1-2 minutes later that person suddenly says someting about feeling strange and immediately falls down to the ground, unconscious.
I'm not talking about poisoning someone, just knocking people out.
As much as I know about such things, drugs would have to stay inside your stomach for a while (I'd say at least 15-30 minutes depending on what you've eaten and when) before there would be any effect at all. Then, but this is just a guess, I'd say this effect won't come all of a sudden, but it should take at least a few minutes of feeling dizzy before the person is indeed knocked out, wouldn't it?
I just want to know this in general, as I thought about using it in a future part of my story, but as this part is just outlined and nothing more I can't give any specific info (and as I think it is not so realistic anyway I didn't bother thinking about details yet). "The reader doesn't care if it is realistic" and such doesn't help, because unfortunately I do care about such things. I couldn't bring myself to write something I know would not be logically working.