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I am stuck to express my feelings. I watched a video about business ideas and the speaker presented it so beautifully that I got so energized and it opened up so many new ideas to me. I am looking for an idiom to express all the feelings in one sentence.
My native language is Urdu/Hindi and we have an idiom for it. "14 tabaq roshan ho jana". If somebody knows here Urdu/Hindi, s/he could read it.
The best I can think of is “it opened up my mind to (many) new ideas (or possibilities).” If something opens up your mind to something else, that something makes you aware of that something else that you may not have known about or thought much about before.
There are many idioms for that concept: epiphany, satori, "a lightbulb went on in my mind," and so on.
A possible descriptor for this experience would be "revelatory," as in "viewing the presentation was a revelatory experience."
Taken literally, it means that the presentation revealed something to you. However, the word is typically reserved for experiences of new and particularly profound understanding. This is probably because of its connection to the Book of Revelations in the Christian Bible, in which the writer witnesses numerous strange and wondrous things that dramatically change and deepen his understanding of God and reality.
