"To emerge with a glimmer of ideas"

[jennyunica]

I was wondering about what it means,

"and out of all this banal introspection he emerged with a glimmer of ideas".

Thanks
Je

 

[Paradanta]

...it might mean that after swimming in the river of his thoughts, he came out with some small fish..enough to start a meal with...

 

[Paradanta]

A glimmer is a small sparkle of something..a little light...not darkness...in other words movement and hope.