epiphany

"Then it was like this epiphany - this bolt from the blue - that I didn't have to," she said.

In the hospital, he recalls having an epiphany.

An “epiphany,” in case you have yet to have one, is when someone encounters truths about life with which they were previously unfamiliar, thus sparking an abrupt change of perspective.

When she was 11, the local rock station played Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle,” and Harvey had an epiphany.

In the fog of the first eighteen months of running his own business, Eisman had an epiphany, an identifiable moment when he realized he’d been missing something obvious.