I think in a sort of fuzzy internal symbology, which I then have to translate into English.
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I don’t think I do, unless I’m specifically thinking about communicating what I’m thinking.
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I definitely talk to myself, both externally and internally, and even when I’m not addressing myself I definitely internally ‘verbalise’ thoughts. Conversely and possible weirdly I have almost no visual internal life; by which I mean, I can imagine things as concepts or ideas and think about ‘bread’, for instance, but it’s very very hard for me to visualise a loaf of bread in any sort of detail. I don’t really ‘see’ it at all. It occurred to me that this isn’t how most people think when I was reading Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ where he asks the reader to visualise a fridge and then describe what it looks like, the details, the model, the wear on it… I just couldn’t do that. I can think ‘okay well I was thinking of a brand new fridge’ but I certainly don’t ‘see’ it in any meaningful way to be able to describe it.
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Tina is the same, which I found very strange. It’s a widespread thing though, lots of people cannot conjure up mental pictures like that.
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I am also team „external monologue“ … I have all these bonus words… they need out.
I do not always talk to myself internally, but there are always words. It is (and always has been) like I am writing in my head. Sadly, this also means I have a hard time turning off at night.
I can visualize when I want to. That fridge… I can easily conjure up a variety of settings with fridges in them (GM-ing RPGs helped). But most of the time I think in words and concepts. It is just faster… and as previously mentioned I am not a patient person.
My sister cannot visualize at all.
I had a colleague who saw numbers in color…
Our brains are different and if we could just spend 5 minutes in someone elses thoughts I bet we‘d be all weirded out by how different …
I think I previously mentioned this somewhere here: I think in both German and English depending on context. When my brain goes into story writing mode, it switches to English. Which is not my native language. I have a few clues as to why but… I still think it is weird. I also dream in both languages.
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I don’t “see” numbers in colour, but obviously each of the days of the week have a colour. And no two people on here will agree on what they are.
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Mondays are obviously blue.
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If you are a Catholic (I am unsure of other Christian branches, sorry), Sunday tends to change depending of the time of the year: Easter, Advent, Christmas… they all had different colours when you were in mass.
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My father always describes numbers as having a shape. Part of his excellence in mental arithmetic comes from sums and remainders feeling wrong and right when he’s doing mental arithmetic.
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I believe the fancy Greek term for this is aphantasia. I wonder if that makes you faster at things like verbal reasoning because you don’t have to translate pictures into words 
I have a friend who has synesthesia (she “sees” sounds and textures as colours) which helps her to be very good at memorising musical scores.
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I used to work with someone like that. At some point, someone printed a sheet on the line printer of the digit “8”, 132 columns, 80 lines. Some where in the middle, there was a single “3”. It took mosypeople a long time to find it. The synthesia person, looked at it and pointed it out instantly, because it was the one spot of the wrong color.
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I don’t see numbers in colour, but since I was diagnosed with astigmatism about 8-10 years ago, sometimes when I see something written in red, it looks sort of 3D-like to me. Which is sort of cool in a way?
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That’s nothing to do with astigmatism!
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It’s not the astigmatism, the timing just happened to coincide with the diagnosis 
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At first I thought it would be to do with the new lenses, as my previous ones were just for shortsightedness, now I don’t really give it much importance any more.
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Tuesdays grey, and Wednesday too.
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Thursday means my week-end is close… and It‘s Friday I‘m in love (with 51st State?)
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just found this in an update to the Daybreak campaign
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“Once a player controls at least two quadrants, 23 sectors, the square root of a negative number of cosmo-zones, and correctly answers a series of trivia questions about the 1973 Cincinnati Reds, we move into the next phase of the game. This is where it gets a little tricky, but you’ll catch on.”
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