When thinking about numbers and music, it's primarily colors and shapes. Every tone and digit has a different color-shape. "Blue notes" really are blue, flats a

When thinking about numbers and music, it's primarily colors and shapes. Every tone and digit has a different color-shape. "Blue notes" really are blue, flats are brown, harmony is a slurry-grey pattern that's hard to describe. :) I think primarily in English or Spanish words, then pictures when I am ramping up into a problem. I'll start talking then stop, and my hands reach for a pad & pen of their own accord. Once I'm "in", my thinking is not really words and not really pictures. It's... I don't know. There is a saying: when you want to find a lost horse, you have to think like the horse. Ideally I identify with whatever it is and I "think like the horse". Afterwards I discover/rationalize explanations for it.