[Theresa1991]

Yesterday, highly hypomanic, i had the weirdest ideas trying to sleep. First i came up with the idea of an exposition about bipolar drawing faces and i am indeed not bad at drawing but far away from good enough to exhibit. Then i came up with the idea of a new story i absolutely had to write and now that i consider it it was the worst, Most absurd, ridiculous idea ever. It was so ridiculous i wont even tell it. I just cant believe i was thinking it would be one of my most ingenious stories ever.

Does that Happen to you? Crazy ideas, overestimating yourself totally?

[faerie_moon_x]

Yes. I am often bombarded by ideas. It's probably mania. Mine start coming so fast I can't even think straight or make sense of them.

Originally Posted by Theresa1991

Yesterday, highly hypomanic, i had the weirdest ideas trying to sleep. First i came up with the idea of an exposition about bipolar drawing faces and i am indeed not bad at drawing but far away from good enough to exhibit. Then i came up with the idea of a new story i absolutely had to write and now that i consider it it was the worst, Most absurd, ridiculous idea ever. It was so ridiculous i wont even tell it. I just cant believe i was thinking it would be one of my most ingenious stories ever.

Does that Happen to you? Crazy ideas, overestimating yourself totally?

I once was convinced that my computer was a vending machine/ time vortex

so, you search for anything and you get sucked in to the screen (that's gotta hurt!), and actually travel to that location

and then you speak aloud what you want, and your cd drive opens (that looks more like a microwave), and gives you what you want!.

I even started writing a creative peace on that

the other crazy idea I had (though not as crazy), is that places like theaters and shopping malls have feelings.

if someone say, takes everything from the mall, as they leave it protests, oy.. not so much stuff!, and then closes because it's sad

I almost forgot the whole dolphin/ birthday cake idea

that a dolphin jumping out of a birthday cake is a cymbol of a year of good luck

[Theresa1991]

Hahaha, ok so now i am gonna Tell my story. I was about to write the most ingenuos best written short story ever in my career as a writer. It goes like this more or less:

There is a spider living at the ceiling of a couples bed room. When they discover the spider and give it a Name their relationship and love life become soooo good suddenly. Then one day the Spider travels down to their bed on their web and starts living on the matress and the couples relationship becomes just like a miracle. Somehow the spider sitting at the edge of their bed is like a third party, like the thing that was missing to make their relationship complete. And then- tragic turn. As the spider is living on the matress one day making love the husband rolls over and smashes the spider under him. The spider is dead, the relationship stops working.

Doesn't this sound like a ****ing bestseller? I was actually seeing some point in this. What the hell? Now i am slowly grasping the meaning of "delusional ". I actually didnt want to Fall alseep because i was so afraid to forget this unique idea.

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by Theresa1991

Hahaha, ok so now i am gonna Tell my story. I was about to write the most ingenuos best written short story ever in my career as a writer. It goes like this more or less:

There is a spider living at the ceiling of a couples bed room. When they discover the spider and give it a Name their relationship and love life become soooo good suddenly. Then one day the Spider travels down to their bed on their web and starts living on the matress and the couples relationship becomes just like a miracle. Somehow the spider sitting at the edge of their bed is like a third party, like the thing that was missing to make their relationship complete. And then- tragic turn. As the spider is living on the matress one day making love the husband rolls over and smashes the spider under him. The spider is dead, the relationship stops working.

Doesn't this sound like a ****ing bestseller? I was actually seeing some point in this. What the hell? Now i am slowly grasping the meaning of "delusional ". I actually didnt want to Fall alseep because i was so afraid to forget this unique idea.

I'm amazed you could get it down. My ideas are usually so fleeting and abstract.

[glowsinthedark]

It sounds like you are pathologizing your own creativity a little bit. Strange, whimsical, surreal ideas or unrealistic fantasies aren't necessarily symptoms of a disorder. The stuff you mention does not strike me as delusional or grandiose or overtly bizarre at all (especially since you are a writer) - this is what the imagination is for. Now, if you are having so many thoughts you can't even keep track of or remember them, or if you are calling galleries and publishers to tell them that you have the best idea in the universe and will make them a fortune with your creative genius, that would be another story...

I'm not saying you are/aren't experiencing a manic or hypomanic episode, just that from what you describe I would not be alarmed at the content of your thoughts.

Yes, I get strange ideas esp during manic/mixed episodes.
I went through this period of time where I thought God and the Devil were fighting inside my mind. When God was winning I would feel perfect euphoria, and when the devil was winning I would experience great suffering. It would then explain my internal life and when there was a tie earthquakes would happen.

[glowsinthedark]

Originally Posted by escapeartist

Yes, I get strange ideas esp during manic/mixed episodes.
I went through this period of time where I thought God and the Devil were fighting inside my mind. When God was winning I would feel perfect euphoria, and when the devil was winning I would experience great suffering. It would then explain my internal life and when there was a tie earthquakes would happen.

Now THAT sounds more like a possibly worrisome delusion (i.e., belief)...which is very different from an idea...

[EmilyTheStrange]

I had been baking lots of bread, a new obsession, and got the idea in my head that i was going to open a micro bakery from my kitchen. I would replace my kitchen window with a serving hatch, get up at 3am to cook all the bread things etc. I called the local authority to mention my idea and ask about permits and environmental health visits. They sent me lots of forms. I researched serving hatches to see what the cost would be.
Bearing in mind i live in a quiet residential street, my kitchen is pretty small, and my window opens out the side of my house onto my driveway quite a way from the footpath.
As well as that to make more money, then i would get some kind of permit which would let me go and hang around near the railway station with a big basket round my neck selling bread based things. Or maybe even get on the train and sell to commuters as they were travelling.
Apparently you can't do that one
Of course I told lots of people about my foolproof plan.

here is a random thought (and this has just come to me)

if old mcdonald does have a farm, like in the song, who looks after it/ who would we sing about if he passes away?

and if 1 of the verses was, and on that farm he had a combine harvester,

what would the sound be?

[Moose72]

The sound of mice screaming.

if a dog and a cat swapped places, I wonder how easy it would be to train a cat?

teach it to play fetch and stufff
(and it would look so random on the lead, when it goes for walkies)

[HALLIEBETH87]

So my friend made this hilarious video with an app. It got hundreds of likes and shares on Facebook!! I was manic...

I decided I'd put it on ellentube and Ellen degenres would find it and love it and put it on her show. Then we'd both go to California and meet her and buy Ellen underwear. Lol I told my former pdoc this and she was like unmmmm...