Hello Gidget:
You're suffering the same problem that we all have, so don't worry !!  One professor told me that the basic of research is to connect the unconnected, to link whatever had been completed unrelated before.  This Professor suggested to me to do this:  write down in a piece of paper a lot of bubbles and write inside them the name of any area that you are interested in, including hobbies and things that you don't know nothing yet but will love to learn. After that, start to make lines connecting the bubbles and think what could come up from that connection.  Perhaps that will help you to arrive to a new idea that come from the uniqueness of your own experience.  After all, Newton connected the idea of throwing a stone away with the idea of the moon orbiting around the Earth.
Good luck !!!!!