Yes! One of the positives I experience during mania is the fog lifting. There is clarity to everything. It's not just colours brighter, sounds clearer, visuals brighter. It's also a massive expansion in vocabulary, in clear thinking, in artistic skills. Thoughts come and can be acted on with the confidence that would take years to develop. I love poetry, and what I find I can pen in a week, the verbiage, the intellect, the subject matter, the flow, its all just there on tap without having to struggle for it., that will take 5 minutes during a manic episode. Depression dumbs one down I find. The medication for bipolar adds another level of dumbing down again.

And, I'm alive, so am thankful for the medication.

Do you pluck your earhair? (And say hi to the hampster when in there - that may only be me....)