It often happens to me, especially when sending an e-mail with a question, that I come up with the answer right after having asked the question. If that happens to you, you don't really need a person to ask the question to, you could do just as well ask a teddy bear for help. Often the answer becomes clear when you have articulated the question properly.

Recently, my colleague Thijs Janssen presented Erik and me with a teddybear.
Erik and I often thank Thijs for helping us solve our problem, while actually, we solved it ourselves right after asking him a question...