"it came to me as a microsleep misinterpretation of a radio news broadcast" feels like the most tech thing, to me. this is always where the best ideas seem to come from, a misinterpretation that gets fixed up into an enhancement.
Then I’ll hear it in a quiet environment and realize that I preferred the version where my brain adding things to make up for what I couldn’t hear before.
I guess it’s a little like diffusion. The brain has natural denoising processes which, in an unconscious way, taps into our tastes.