Eli5: How is it that sometimes you can have a conversation with yourself and have yourself make sense of something you didn’t previously understand?

Question

Eli5: How is it that sometimes you can have a conversation with yourself and have yourself make sense of something you didn’t previously understand?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

In the Socratic method of instruction, the teacher doesn’t tell you anything but rather seeks to draw out of you things you already know, often by having you realize connections between different facts you already know.

Perhaps you are doing this with yourself?