An original way of getting an idea

Most of my most promising and brillant ideas comes from the shower or dreams.  I am used to get ideas that way and it is fine with me.  I thought it was the two best ways to find ideas.  The rest was marginal ways to get ideas.  I was wrong.  The shower and dreams are still valid ways to get ideas.  I just got an experience that got me reevaluate the ways to get ideas

I got my revelation (well, my idea in fact) while I was reading a book.  It is on Atlantis (https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/atlantis-and-other-lost-worlds/9781784040901-item.html?ikwid=Atlantis+and+other+lost+worlds&ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=0)  I really read a lot of various books and this book is no exception.  I do have some issue with the book but I better stay on topic.  So, I read this book on Atlantis.  I came to a passage on crystal technology.  Immediately, I got the idea.

I have a story where I have magic and technology.  Right now, they aren't going well together.  There is a plot line where it will revealed that a technological character had a magical past.  The character had an accident and had to go on the techie side.  Eventually, I want that character to become an techno mage.  The way for her to becone one wasn't really set up.

 After reading the crystal passge, I got my answer and the way to get where I want.  My main character is on the magical side ahd she is in the rare category of an crystal user.  As some gemstones are used in technological device, she will be the bridge between magic and technology.  Both will no longer backfire when coming into contact, well, mainly for the techno mage.  I have to work out the details but the main idea is there.  For sure, my techno mages won't ve totally all powerful.  They will have some limits.

I now want to return to that story.  I have to take some notes but I still work on that story on an unconscious level.  I hope to be able to return on that realm soon...