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I was thinking about reality... about our concept of it, about just how much we can know at one given time.  I went from idea to idea, in much the same way that I started off with one topic for a web paper, and, after researching, ended up with a completely different topic. But, with this mind wandering, I got to a certain point before I made relative peace with the topic.. before I logically thought out as much as I could for the moment. A little while later, while I was walking somewhere, a new idea came into my head.. a new way of looking at the world, or at reality, that made me think. I asked my sister, who's 10 years olderr than me, about these revelations- or whatever they're called, and she told me that she used to have them a lot, but now, not as much. I wondered if age, or current situation, or experience, has an effect on these mind wanderings.. if we can have more random thoughts/revelations if our minds are clearer.. or maybe if they're in use, constantly working, finding holes to fill with these random thoughts? Maybe it's just sometimes some of our minds are looking to make life and the world, the observations concerning both, make more sense, be more logical, in a way. Maybe we all have these thoughts about different things, and maybe these different revelations we each have play a large role in making our worlds so different. It concerned me that my sister said she used to have these thoughts often, but over time, they lessoned.. maybe that specific part of the brain concerned with these thoughts had another, seemingly more important job, that took over the role? Maybe it's just where you are, that either encourages or discourages thinking about reality.. maybe, once you're out of the academic setting, and the "real world" is more real than ever, the brain finds mind wandering more confusing and detrimental.. but, for some people, maybe this uncertainty is what thrills them about life- about not being able to make sense of it- about being able to have these interesting new thoughts about interactions and the world around them... so finally, at the base of it all.. what is it that makes us interpret the world so differently- that makes some people more interested in attempting to understand reality, and observations, while some people don't have these random thoughts about the world around them? Maybe there's no correlation between the two..maybe some people interested in these thoughts just don't have them, and vice-versa..