internalizing the root Key

[Bobby Marshall]

Maybe not exactly on point, but I have been doing some ear training away from the guitar recently and all of a sudden, when listening to a dominant chord, I no longer heard the chord tones as 1 3 5 m7 but as 5 7 9 11, maybe this is my brain telling me "I know what the tonic/root note is", or I could be crazy. Anyone? Is this a good thing?

[docbop]

Maybe not exactly on point, but I have been doing some ear training away from the guitar recently and all of a sudden, when listening to a dominant chord, I no longer heard the chord tones as 1 3 5 m7 but as 5 7 9 11, maybe this is my brain telling me "I know what the tonic/root note is", or I could be crazy. Anyone? Is this a good thing?

One of the popular ear training method has you hear thing like that. What they do is play a I IV V cadence then hit a note and you ID the note in relation to the key of the cadence. That is what you're doing hearing it as 5 7 9 11. They say it is better for hearing melodies in relation to the key.