Other Ways of Thinking?

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I know thinking in pictures, words, and patterns has been talked about a lot. Does anyone think in any other ways? I can process complete ideas in feelings only. What else is there?

How about proprioceptive resonance?

Proprioceptive Thought: An Introduction to How I Think

(Not me, FYI)

I often think in emotions.

Wow, that was interesting yellowtamarin.

I don't even know how to explain my thoughts. It's just really abstract.

Wow, that blew me away...

Me too. It was very insightful, especially about computer learning and how that each thought/ subthought generates a child thought and branches out from there. A part of it resonates with me with trying to explain my thought system.

For me, written and verbal language is not my first language. I see in my mind, my thoughts are a mix of symbols, visuals, experiences, and movies generated from my imagination and the world around me. I translate those into an internal verbal monologue.

When it comes to speaking or writing, I see my thoughts like a flow chart. Picture being in a roleplay game where you have multiple choice questions to bring up to each NPC character you come across.
My mind plays each option out as I write a sentence or think a thought. If I say what, where will it lead me? Where will it lead the other person? Where am I going from here? My mind generates a potential future, altering it in real time as I gather more information.

At times of frustration I will struggle with this, because I see many possibilities and have to factor which one to follow through to get what result I hope for. But the result has to fit with the context. I have to weight those out. I also factor in emotion. What emotion do I desire to experience. What emotion do I desire the other person to experience. I want the outcome to be peaceful whenever possible. There are times that I may need to be assertive and less afraid to be blunt. But I have to factor in the consequences of each option before I take action. I hate upsetting people, so my usual action is to be as peaceful and polite as possible.
It is kind of like playing a chess game, even though I haven't played the game much. I have to have a plan or strategy or I find myself wasting time in my imagination, generating scenes and ideas but not doing anything with them.

^^ thank you for sharing. I am in absolute awe of how you and the proprioceptive resonance blogger can put things in such sharp detail. May I ask when and how you became so aware of how your thinking operated? What was it like as a child? When did you have the distance from it to describe it to such detail as you did here? And your thinking is so extremely detailed and nuanced with so much to weigh in and account for, how does it operate in day to day situations, does it slow your processing time down?