You are providing a vital life service when you do this and your magic ears are appreciated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
This is actually a known thing. Having to explain something to someone else0 even an inanimate someone- causes the logic lines to travel through your brain differently, and what was an impenetrable block from the perspective of trying to do it may suddenly become easily defeated from the perspective of teaching/explaining it.