A bit of an out there question, but working on a song yesterday made me wonder how different people perceive music and if the way we perceive it affects how we work and how well we do it.
Personally, I think my synaesthesia affects the way I see music. I am completely unable to read music off a score. Notes do not make sense. I see music as patterns and these patterns are in block. However individual notes are still a mystery to me. With great effort, I can read a score, and try to reassemble these blocks, but even then, I cannot bring the song I hear in my head to coincide with the song I'm working on. I cannot get the different blocks of music to fit, because hey are like legos, some are 2 by 2 blocks, others 3 by 1, and well, they just don't fit.
This got me wondering: do you see music as patterns that are used to build a song like you would use legos, or do you see music as something else?