einfall, n.Definitions

Einfall (n.) or ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠chance idea "falls in" quite of its own accord — proof that the unconscious, not the conscious mind, thought it up.

An Einfall (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the German "chance idea", which only seems groundless; it is often an indirect memory, and such ideas are frequent in intuitive thinkers, so common that we forget how strictly determined all psychic processes are.

The Einfall (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the German name for an idea that falls into your head from nowhere, unconscious until the moment it appears, as if dropped from heaven.