QotD: Psychedelic Light Show

What was the last great epiphany that you had?
Submitted by Ross.

When I was a kid, my dad had a game he liked to play, called "Psychedelic Light Show."  This involved coming into the bedroom my sisters and I shared at some dark hour of the morning and rapidly flicking the lights on and off, while crowing, "Psychedelic Light Show."  There are worse ways to be woken out one's adolescent torpor, but PLS is still pretty high on that list.  It wouldn't surprise me if they do that at Guantanamo.

The point of this little journey into the past is to lament the nature of my "great epiphanies."  Tragically, my moments of epiphany all seem to follow the same cycle.

1. Epiphany.
2. Several hours of delighted declaration of epiphany.
3. A few days to a couple weeks of actively incorporating epiphany into attitude/behavior/world view.
4. Rapidly fading understanding of why epiphany seemed so damned important a week ago.
5. Distant memory of something that seemed life-altering, but turned out not to be.
6. Repeat 6-12 months later.

Maybe that's the nature of epiphanies--fleeting and intangible, but I always feel like someone is flashing the lights inside my brain on and off.