waking up just after 3 am with perfect clarity about how to do something i fumbled in the past sure is a feeling of all time.

the "pleasant" aspect of this feeling is when you sleep on something and you gain access to a perspective that you're consequently able to act from. this is the "unpleasant" aspect: it had consequence in the moment but is utterly inconsequential now, i can't go back and save face about it, it was so particular to the situation i can't apply it to "future learnings"—

is that last part true? surely there is a lesson to generalize and metabolize beyond the situation... but i probably have to sleep on it to find out.....