Thought processes are erratic in mania, because although memory seems to pull out random facts from everywhere, verifying them is impossible due to stress and perceived lack of time.

Judgement, also, though still functioning in the sense of guarding some types of repetetive thought processes (based on my success in riding the bike while talking on phone and looking down to avoid the further distraction of the cars but nonetheless maintaining balance and direction correctly as long as i was sucessful at moderating my speed), was neverthless impaired for meta-processes of reasoning (reasoning about reasoning.) This impairment seemed to manifest as a lack of impairment to me (the observer), since I no longer seemed able to tell myself some types of thoughts were totally inappropriate. This was somewhat scary, because manifestation is connected rather directly to thought, therefore i needed to regain focus to be able to think properly on the meta-level as well as on the direct thought process level.

Re-integration of the brain should do it.

I think this may be a function of sleep. I'll try getting a full night's this time....