How do you think - visual / verbal / patterns / other

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I think in pictures but I learn from patterns. It takes a long time to process and make my thoughts coherent. No verbal thinking at all.

"Anything but verbal".

As in, it could be visual, patterns, pure abstract that could be neither of the former two, or something else outside that, or any combinations of those.

Just anything but verbal into the mix.
Verbal would mean I had to use my mental resources to translate and interpret the verbal medium into said several other thinking styles. It ends up with wide range of results that is on scale of success and failure, or compete surprise that is off the tangent.

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I have spent most of the evening trying to learn about these thinking styles but I still haven't really grasped how I think.

I sometimes think in one-way conversations as of what I would say to someone but I think that's not the primary way and I need to converse my thoughts to words before that's possible and sometimes it's really hard and I struggle a lot to write or say what's on my mind. I easily forget what I have read and may not even understand written or spoken orders at all because of language processing problems.

Pattern thinking might be the strongest one of these three for me. I have been quite good at maths but never really enthusiastic about it, I have studied some engineering and statistics in university. My mind is full of music, I have made some little things myself too over time.

I can imagine visual objects but I don't really see them at all, it's more like I can conceptually map them into my mind, no need for words.

Then there's impressions, feelings, something really hard to express verbally unless I am in a strange mood and have sudden urge to write poems. So I don't really know how I think, maybe human minds are so complex that the question itself is wrong though these categories may still help understanding.

Not entirely sure, but definitely not a pattern thinker. I'd say a mix of visual and verbal, depending on what's more appropriate for the work being done, but if I had my way all the time, it'd be visual most of the time.

I have no idea how I think. It's probably because I think in a combination of all the above - most people do, I guess. There's a lot of love these days for visual thinkers because the arts and creativity is so prized. Musicians are prized, too, so in that way, the mathematical/musical thinkers are idealized.

I know that I'm a holistic thinker, while most people think a lot more "straighter" than I do.

I never understood the forms that ask how you learn best - through reading, hearing, watching, doing, etc. I'm not really sure how I learn best. I know I'm not good at completing things on time, though.