When you realize the answer to a question right after you ask it.
Boy walks in with a Barbie backpack.
Boy 1: Who's backpack did you steal?
Boy 2: My sisters' 'cause mine tore.
Boy 1: Ya, prealized that.
When you can sense that you're on the verge of a self-actualized breakthrough, but you haven't achieved full awareness of it.
Jennifer could feel she was about to have an epiphany, but knew she was still in the state of prealization.