I'd like to be a disembodied traveler moving through space and time. One of the stops would be Chopin, writing his Nocturne No.8 in D-Flat, Opus 27, Number 2.
How long did it take him to write it? Did he create the whole thing then set to putting the sheet music together? Or did he write it down as he created it? Did he feel, as Henry Miller did, that he was merely a receiver ... a medium through which the message traveled? Did he feel he was the actual creator?
To have been there, perhaps not disembodied but in person, to speak with him or simply watch as he created his beautiful music would be something I would definitely do if somebody were to build me a time machine....
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