Bruh this is so underrated, personally, I love the emotion that this song brings, it brings some kind of peaceful emotion or something like that.
Also, interesting history behind this song, I also make music based on my intuition, and inspiration form other songs that I listen to, it's much easier that way for me. Unlike you, my family is not classically trained, however, my dad does music for a hobby. He mostly play electric guitar, but can also play other instruments to using his intuition and general music theory, though he cannot read notes, only tabs. He got me to a classical guitar course, I was able to play classical songs and able to read notes, then he got me to an electric guitar course.
Overtime, I got bored in learning courses, and just got lazy in practicing my instruments, I wanted to make something more. That is when I discovered Garageband, my family is an ios user, so Garageband is available for free on my device, I played around with it for a while, making ridiculous songs that have random notes without structure. After a while I decided to cover songs using my intuition, and it turned out pretty good, that's when I decided to make my own songs using my intuition. Till this day, I still wonder how I was able to make complex songs without advanced musical theory, it just came out of my head like magic. I think it's because of all the inspiration that I've gathered throughout the years of me listening to different kinds of music.
All in all, I think intuition, imagination or creativity is an integral part of a human being, next to knowledge. When they bind together, they can create amazing things. I mean, you cannot create an airplane without having to imagine it in the first place right?
Beautiful piece nontheless
ChordC