Yes, all the time. I read a book called refactor your wetware, and despite the patronizing title, it's about how our brain processes things in 'real time' but a

Yes, all the time. I read a book called refactor your wetware, and despite the patronizing title, it's about how our brain processes things in 'real time' but also in a sort of longer term, background data crunching sort of way and we should take advantage of this. Have you ever you've ever had a problem you just couldn't solve, that was really hairy and beat you up all night that was suddenly trivial and obvious when you woke up the next morning? Same process, apparently. Basically your background subconscious or a lower level part of your brain goes and picks through all your knowledge that isn't readily available to your consciousness.