It's like the line of thinking is always there and when it gets the energy and acceleration from the Mania, it gets completely out of control, but it's always there just the same. In my case, when all of those behaviors I have when Manic, sex with strangers, massive spending, drinking, drugs, getting consumed by "big ideas" and working on them like mad, I can give way to delusional thinking that is completely irrational and not reality based. The're often paranoid delusions but again, they are obsessional, fixed ideas.