Randomly picking up Interests

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Okay, I get special interests or whatever you might call them. But have any of you ever jut had a moment where you wake up and suddenly something is very exciting that you never thought to be exciting before?

Yes I am asking this because it personally happened to me. Never before have patterns and numbers interested me. I knew of the Fibonacci sequence before this, and I knew that it was linked to some things. But we recently started the evolution unit in biology, which gave a reason for it to surface I suppose. And suddenly it was as if I needed to know everything about Every aspect of the Fibonacci sequence, and it gave me a strange excitement to figure it out.

and when I saw how much it related to math even beyond the fact that it used numbers Geometry became unbelievably interesting.

Coincidentally (Or maybe NOT I don't believe in coincidences...sometimes) We learned about the Fibonacci sequence in Geometry The day after I started researching it.

So do you have a story where your interest seemingly came from nowhere?

I can't really relate to eureka moment or a sudden epiphany. It's more like I have this nagging urge, for example, to know how video game coding/programming is done. I'll take the first step, like downloading a programming language, then not really do anything for months or sometimes even a year or two. I downloaded python 2.7 over a year ago and I'm only just learning some basic coding now so that's a recent example. Then I have a portrait of a political activist I started one night. So far I just have the face done and some of the background. That's it. One night's work (I didn't sleep until just before dawn) after thinking about doing it for ages. I have no idea when I'll finish it. Another example, I started a course to prep me for university but dropped out. But I still have the maths guide books though because I would love to be better at maths one day and even get into some basic physics. I suppose I'll get around to that as well eventually. Then I'm also really badly affected by what the Japanese called tsundoku, the accumulation of books without reading them. I've also been doing this the last few days downloading anime and movies without starting to get through any of them. I'm also only part way through season 4 of the X-Files and 3/4 through season 1 of Pokemon after going on a nostalgia bent a few months ago. It's tiring going on manic flights of fancy.