I'm glad people here are sharing some of their thoughts on the crazy crap they did while manic.

Here is the lesson to be learned. You can do some pretty amazing stuff while high on crack but most people won't understand what you are doing. Unfortunately your own mind will also give up understanding what you are doing. I say "crack" because that is probably the most similar drug to mania on the planet. Not that I have experience with it because I don't LOL. Unfortunately the physical effects are lethal at times as well.

Anyway, IMO if you want to be happy while manic you have to learn to control your actions. Your mind already is relying on its decision making process to decide everything once you are full blown manic as it won't leave anything up to your subconscious. Overall, if you can teach yourself to sleep it will allow your subconscious to take over some things again with what it has learned from your conscious state.

Also, CMON folks...be nice. You may be able to think a bit clearer because you are relying on your decision making part of your mind to do everything...but that doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you different.

If you could take the mind of a manic, mix with the mind of saint, and finish off with a superhuman ability to memorize...well you might just be a savior when the time in your life calls for it.

Use your abilities to make the world better...my God does it need it.