Sometimes I can't quite decipher what I'm looking at - I just know I've made some new connections. Other times, that road suddenly jumps up at me and OH MY GOD I get so excited when that happens. It is like the amazing feeling I get when I hit a perfect, extremely complicated run while singing, or like the first time I read in English or Spanish and really read it and understood (yes, I still remember how it felt when I "unlocked" reading in English.)
I think this applies to math, too. I specifically remember understanding algebra and calculus. Once you get the underlying unifying idea, the pieces naturally fall into place.
I think it's a feature of reality.
