What am I really seeing

As a Life Coach, I am continually amazed at the subtle and not so subtle "ah ha" moments people have. These sparks of vision, as I like to call them, show up in the most random of moments. It is as if our unconcisous mind or "auto-pilot" fired off something that has been in the planning for a long time but was just waiting for the right environment and circumstances to make its debut. What makes for this "right moment"? Is it something that truely was waiting for the all the right ingredients to be in place or has it been creeping into our awareness and we were just oblivious?