flight of ideas

English

Noun

flight of ideas (plural flights of ideas)

  1. (psychiatry) Excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves causal association between ideas, typically seen in bipolar disorder.
    • 2005, Andreas Marneros, Frederick Goodwin, editors, Bipolar Disorders: Mixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 169:
      This disturbance is, in many respects, different from the flight of ideas observed in manic state. Flight of ideas in manic patients is expressed verbally in an abundance of words or pressured or clearly logorrheic speech.
    • 2025 August 8, Kashmir Hill, Dylan Freedman, “Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 8 August 2025:
      The signs of mania, Dr. Vasan said, included the long hours he spent talking to ChatGPT, without eating or sleeping enough, and his “flight of ideas” — the grandiose delusions that his inventions would change the world.

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