Does anyone else think in sounds?

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I often playback full classical pieces in my head, exactly like I heard them, with all the slight tempo changes and phrasings, and while doing this I sometimes like to change the instruments to other instruments, or to voices. It's fun to freak myself out with how the new version sounds! Like, one time, I reversed the male and female parts of a fast-tempo Mozart opera duet (Don Giovanni). But often, I can bend sounds in ANY way I wish -- far into the freak-myself-out zone. Like, I can imagine a certain person's voice saying anything I want, and in any weird way. Also, if someone says a word in an annoying way, I can instantly mentally repeat what they said, and make them sound stupid by making their voice say that annoying word like four times in a row during the course of their sentence. I guess I get most of my "revenge" mentally/internally, so that's why I don't seek it outwardly. If I can make someone I'm angry with sound or look foolish in my head, that's enough.

But I do like making speech -- and even just regular sounds -- bend and warp in bizarre ways. Like, slowing down someone's speech to like .25x, or making a bell's "ding" sound seem to last forever. That last one's a common favorite of mine. When the elevator arrives and dings, I deliberately hear the ding last for as long as I like, imagining the sound is some kind of free-sprung creature that has been instantly created by the bell.

I think in my voice (as I hear it), chattering away in my head. Drives me nuts, especially when I'm reading, because even though I can read as many words at once as I can see, I still have to say them all in my head. You know what I mean? It takes so much longer to say all those words than it does just to see them, but I have to say them all in my head anyway, so I read so much more slowly than I could, at the speed of speech instead of my real reading ability. I also have to repeat myself a lot when I'm trying to create a clear picture or storyline in my head.

I think in movies and memories.
It's more of a motion thing.

And what is the difference between holograms and normal thinking in pictures? That those pictures created in your mind are not flat, is it what you mean? If so, it means I am the next one to think in holograms too. Pictures in my head are also characterized by a very high level of realism.

exceptions to evry rule

I think in sounds.

But I hear voices, does that count?

The only sounds I think in are words. Few other sounds hold their own individual meaning for me.