NJ writes:
And then one day you may hear something, feel something, see something and all of a sudden these seemingly insignificant experiences may flood your mind in one instance. You can call this an epiphany or whatever else, but what once vexed you was made crystal clear. I can tell you from personal experience that it is one of the most sobering times in a persons life. And you begin to understand that of all of things correlate. And what was nonsensical makes sense. You start to see some engineering that could only be explained by the providence of....
This is exactly the way I've heard scientists and mathematicians describe the experience of making a new discovery!