Had a system where logs were watched to trigger various sound samples (bird chirps for firewall probes, etc). There was a pattern recognition component, when the entropy on that came up there was a "hmmmm?" sound.
Makes sense. I used to tell people that I didn't really need to read compiler output flying up my screen, but watch for the "shape" to change to know something was different. They looked at me like I was insane.
You're better at abstracting. I'd guess you'd also be relatively comfortable/competent with complex and/or higher order dimensions.
You were basically doing exactly what the crew of the Nebucadnezzer were doing when they were looking at the green Matrix columns scrolling down.
Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is exception, warning, errnospc.