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[novapsyche]

Have you ever had an epiphany? How do you explain your epiphanies to others?

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[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I write LJ entries about mine. :)

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

sometimes mine are about things which seem silly to others. i tell Ry, often, as he will listen to me and try to understand what the hell i am talking about.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

I had one a number of years ago that turned into something of a vision. Didn't come true, though...

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you mean by epiphany. I've had numerous "Eureka!" moments, as well as dhyana-type incidents. The latter kind I have tried to describe from time to time, but it's one of those functions of consciousness that we cannot easily parse into words.

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

I've had a couple. They were both "so THAT's what's wrong with my life" moments, and led to a lot of introspection and self-change. It's a lot of effort, though, to realize the results of those kinds of epiphanies, and explaining them is almost impossible.

[techno-shaman.livejournal.com]

I describe it as a lightning bolt that parts cloudy nights and splits trees through the middle.
I am the charred remains.
~Zephyr~

[darkmare.livejournal.com]

You don't really :) How could I *ever* explain what I went through in San Francisco last year? I wrote an essay about it -- but it's so small a portion of what was actually there. And yeah, I started an LJ because of it :p

That experience stil burns within me today unlike anything else in my life, and I'm no closer to explaining it to someone, though a few ppl in my life grasp it; not because of my explanations, but because that's the kind of person they are.

[xiombarg.livejournal.com]

Don't you remember my bathroom epiphanies?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually, I do. :)

[zendifferential.livejournal.com]

I have. Not in a long time, but there was a period in which I had blinding revelations of truth on a not-infrequent basis.

Usually I would try to funnel my revelation in to writing, art... telling people usually seemed to dull the sheen off of whatever it was I had discovered.

I had a lot more epiphanies when I did DXM regularly, actually... not while I was on it, but in between. I was quite convinced (and still suspicious) that it did something to the ordering-and-recognition parts of my brain that let me correlate things in new ways, revealing truths that I'm not sure, looking back, I can still understand today.

[m0n90053.livejournal.com]

I usually share my epiphanies with my fiancee. We are usually on the same wavelength enough that minimal explanation is needed- the question she asks most often about them is, "Where did that come from?", rather than, "What is that supposed to mean?"

I also usually share my rants with my fiancee as well, though, and I'm not entirely sure that she can tell the difference...

When I do have to explain an epiphany, I generally find it immediately frustrating- even though it's something that I just though of/realized myself, once I have it, it seems so immediately obvious that I have a bit of a problem understanding why it should need explanation, i.e. the feeling is on the order of the epiphany being its own explanation...

I somehow doubt that I've managed to clear anything up for you with this...