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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.

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  • Not an idiom but can express the state you went in, which is "inspiration". So you can say: "I've got inspired by that video".
    – Learning Equals Success
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:54

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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.

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  • I realize now that in your original question you said it opened up many new ideas to you- this is a very similar phrase, so maybe you’re already aware you can say this.
    – Mixolydian
    Mar 20, 2019 at 16:55
  • Yes, I think you are right but I asked for an idiom in question can I accept this answer ?
    – Ajwad Syed
    Mar 20, 2019 at 17:00
  • I mean, if you want! Merriam-Webster considers “to open one’s mind” to be an idiom, if that matters to you: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20one's%20mind
    – Mixolydian
    Mar 20, 2019 at 17:01
  • That makes sense.
    – Ajwad Syed
    Mar 20, 2019 at 18:16
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There are many idioms for that concept: epiphany, satori, "a lightbulb went on in my mind," and so on.

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  • Isn't it known for "head" not "mind"? It is an idiom after all.
    – Learning Equals Success
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:51
  • @TasneemZh: It can be either. In English head can be a synecdoche for mind.
    – Robusto
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:52
  • "A lightbulb went on in my head" it conveys the concept of single idea in mind.. isn't it ? I want to express feeling of so many ideas in mind..
    – Ajwad Syed
    Mar 20, 2019 at 14:57
  • I think the more common expression is “a lightbulb went off in my head”- I guess it’s like an explosive device “going off”- it really means you all of a sudden had a great idea.
    – Mixolydian
    Mar 20, 2019 at 16:16
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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.

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