The soul is an interesting entity with no time awareness. It plans the present leaving markers (events) in your life to call upon later when you go on your healing/metaphysical journey into awareness.
We've all had little epiphanies in the past - from the sighting of an angel, apparition, ghost, UFO, alien abduction, NDE, dream or anything else that will later return to memory when the soul is ready to move into a higher frequency grid where that information is stored. We attract these experiences as a prelude for future events.
During these experiences, the soul opens a 'window' to higher awareness where one gets a glimpse of something (in the grid) that will lay dormant in their mind until the time is right for processing.