More sad sack...(read: NO physics here yet!)

What's the REAL difference between being a visionary and being mad? What's the REAL difference between seeing the sweeping, numinous trends and influences amongst the rich confluence of circumstances, history and potentialities and having (insert word here for seeing simple, random data turn into some sort of pattern or correlation that doesn't really exist - such word which I can't think of right now, have been trying to look it up for OVER 20 minutes now, and it's getting later and later, and I have to get to work, so screw it - I'm not going to be able to finish this post right this second!!! and boy, and I mad about it! WHAT IS THAT WORD?)....
tbc.