It's been a bit of a weekend for me. I will get to that later in the week probably. Just know that I am doing my best to catch up and get back to some kind of a normal schedule. Today, I wanted to write a quick post about a certain phenomenon that I have come to realize in my life.
It really isn't anything new, I am sure it has been happening pretty much my entire life, but after blogging on Hive for over four years, pretty much everything becomes a post at some point or another right?
There might be a technical term for what I am about to talk about, but if there is, I don't know it. Instead, I am just going to call it "epiphany hour".
Typically, one of two things happen during epiphany hour. Either you remember all of the stuff that needs to get done (I keep my phone by the bed so I can add those things to my Google Keep list), or you come up with wildly brilliant ideas that you either forget about or never follow through on.
I can't tell you the number of post ideas I have come up with laying in bed at night right before I fall asleep.
It seems counter productive to me on so many levels. This is the time when your mind is supposed to be winding down and shutting off. Instead, it's firing up the engines like a jet getting ready to take off.
Maybe it is the fact that your mind finally has a chance to just be still and now it has a chance to bring things into focus that have been on the periphery all day. I honestly don't know, but I find the whole process a bit fascinating.
As a school social worker, part of my wife's job is looking for the signs of ADHD or ADD in students. Although I have never been officially diagnosed, she would put money on the fact that I tick off a lot of the boxes. As such, achieving a still mind has always been a bit of a struggle for me.
In fact, I would wager that I have probably never had a moment where my mind is perfectly still. It's like a person channel surfing through a million channels up there. Which I think is why this epiphany hour intrigues me so much.
The lists I actually don't mind. Like I said, I have a lot of stuff going on my head most of the time, so remembering things I need to do is kind of a blessing because typically I forget.
On the other hand those "great ideas" are the ones that I tend to struggle with. I can't tell you the number of lifestyle changes, or other "brilliant ideas" I have realized or never followed through on that came to me just before sleep overtook me.
It makes me wonder if anyone else experiences this and how many of the worlds greatest issues might be solved if one of us were actually able to see one of these epiphanies to fruition. Or, how many of the worlds problems were solved because someone did accomplish one of them...
Have you had one of these moments? Did you follow through with it? Did it bring you the expected result?
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