Understanding-“understanding”

When we understand something- a concept, a phenomenon, an idea, we seem to experience a feeling of joy, as if we are meeting a long lost friend! The more complex the concept/phenomenon/idea the greater is the joy.
Why should understanding result in experiencing joy?
Is it that when we feel that we have “understood”, what is actually happening is that we have recognized/recalled the concept/phenomenon/idea that was existing in our mind (mind=organization of thoughts) in some form.
Then, the process of understanding is akin to dusting/uncovering/discovering that which was pre-existing. And we feel joy because we intuitively know that we have found what we were looking for (when we have not fully understood we have a nagging feeling, however hard we try to convince our self that we have understood).
Then, understanding perhaps is discovering that which existed in mind and the description of the form of that which we uncovered/recognized is called knowledge!
If so, then perhaps, all knowledge pre-exists in some form in our mind and when we understand we just become aware of its form/recognize its existence and bring that to our consciousness.

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