The best moment of self-realization I ever read...

or saw... was written by Douglas Adams. A Whale... who was brought into existence by the "infinite Improbability Drive"... and began to exist some few thousand feet above the ground in a free fall toward's certain death. He had like seconds to realize who he was, "name" the wind, he called it "Wind, and. ponder his existence until the big SPLAT.

Douglas Adams was a genius. - JamesJM