Hello elevatedsoul

I am not sure how others might describe it as I am sure that you will get a variety of responses here; so this is just for me personally.

I am utterly unable to pay attention.

People can tell me things but honestly I will only be able to decipher about 40% of what they are saying when I am manic; maybe even close on 30% the rest will just pass straight over my head.

I am highly distracted and probably focused on thinking about one thing in my mind but no sooner have I thought the thought than it disappears into the oblivion - lost - I can think a multitude of thoughts every minute yet think nothing at all. I just get lost in my own thought. They're too fast. There's just too many of them.