Great ideas don’t always come when you expect them to. Descartes may have insisted on meditating about his place in the great scheme of things and the nature of God but, as has been seen, he was ultimately fooled by his own deluded mind – just because he thought, why should he be?
No, great ideas come when you don’t expect them; but the shame of it is that we don’t recognise them – we don’t listen to our instincts. How many times have you walked into a room and felt that something had changed, even though you didn’t know what it was? There are millions of inputs entering our brains every second, but because our conscious mind cannot process all of this information, often all we are left with is what we call “instinct”. You don’t think how to walk when you walk; and a good thing too, because if you did you would keep falling over your feet. Your subconscious – in this case, the part of your brain that deals with proprioception – deals with the walking, so that you can get on with the business of noticing what is going on around you : or, more likely than not, ignoring what is going on around you.
Did you see that?!
Too late, it’s gone now. But you didn’t see it, or hear it, or feel it, because it didn’t matter to your conscious brain : it wasn’t important at the time.