You spend three minutes describing the thing to your friends in excruciating detail—the color, the texture, that one scene—until finally someone says the word, and you realize you knew it the whole time, you just needed to hear it from someone else first, like your brain was a vending machine and you were jamming the wrong coin in repeatedly until a stranger came along and used the exact same coin and it worked immediately, which means the machine was fine, it was just waiting for permission from literally anyone but you.