I've played electric/classical guitar off/on the last 35 years and was accepted to School of Music at a University. Always wanted to be a rock musician but it wasn't in the cards. I failed as an engineer, as well. I am still trying - I put together my own electric and practiced a lot last Summer but my energy has waned.

I imagine that artists who are BP must really be effected by colors when they are manic. I had one manic episode in the Fall and I drove past a field and thousands of shades of brown hit me like a lightning bolt. It was really something. I was also overwhelmed once by all of the colors in the supermarket - I didn't realize that there were so, so many bright colors in the grocery store. I actually couldn't take it. I told my psychiatrist about it and she wasn't overly interested.