three words might be pine, crab, and soft, the answer in this case is apple, pineapple, crab apple, applesauce and if you find apple, leap into consciousness just out of the blue and as soon as it pops in your head you know this is the right answer. so it feels like a moment of insight people in the lab will often say aha and their eyes go all wide and what they found is that the seconds before you have a moment of insight, a part possess the brain called the interior superior, just behind your ear, shows a sharp spike in activity and this is a brain area that has been previously associated with things like the processing of jokes and it is interpretation of metaphors, so when romeo says to juliet is to the sun we know we know juliet is not a big floating ball of gas. it makes sense metaphor by looking past the surface similarities, juliet and the 1 have nothing and the underlying themes, mode associations that we realize romeo is juliet lights up his word, a similar mental process is required when you have to make pine, crab and soft those are not words frequently and your brain is able to fi