Moments of Being (V.Woolf)

Moments of being are moments of utmost intensity, of perception, of vision in the “incessant shower of innumerable atoms” that strike our minds every day. They reveal to the individual who experiences them the pattern behind the woolly curtain of existence; and the existence of a pattern reveals the possibility of connection to other people.

They are moments of intesity of perception which illuminate our lives and offer us a better vision of life, time and identity because the individual can perceive the real essence of things.

Epiphany  (J.Joyce)

Stephen Daedalus defines Epiphany in Stephen Hero, an early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Stephen says that epiphanies are a sudden and momentary showing forth or disclosure of one’s authentic inner self. This disclosure might manifest itself in vulgarities of speech, or gestures, or memorable phases of the mind.

It is like a revelation which reminds a pleasent event o situation and the memory seems to be real, it appears very vivid. It may be caused by the sight of an object or listening to a song...