I love music and I’ve attempted music making at various points in my life, but I’m just not great at it. I don’t have the imagination to plan and layer out the

I love music and I’ve attempted music making at various points in my life, but I’m just not great at it. I don’t have the imagination to plan and layer out the interesting bits that make a good song. But my near-sleeping mind is totally able to do that. And this is at least a semi-conscious process, where I’m able to direct the music as it’s being “played” in my mind. As I said, I’m very much an amateur, so I wouldn’t describe it as genius, but it’s still much better than anything I can create awake. I’ve also noticed that this translates into other areas as well, like architecture or languages - I can hear a very convincingly sounding sentence in a language I’m familiar with just well enough to know that it was gibberish.