My younger son watches videos the way I read blogs; I wonder if his thoughts are in movie form.
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One of our sons had a great deal of difficulty with reading and spelling in grade school, which we managed but never really overcame until he got older.
He was eventually able to describe what was happening: he did not remember letters and words as such, but literally / visually as movies, and after he had (a real example from first grade) “watched” 9 spelling words, the 10th one exceeded his bandwidth and he forgot them all.
He does well at reading now, but still can’t spell without great effort.
Curiously, the grandson of one of my friends, some years later, was having the same kinds of trouble in school, and when I talked to him I found out he also was one of the “movie” visualizers.
Both were very artistic, and I suspect here is a correlation between this quasi-synesthesia and that talent.

Not having a “word” for something certainly makes thinking of a concept more difficult. We mostly us Leibniz’s “calculus” math symbols rather than the more complex summation ones that Newton used as he invented it first. Maybe. The Slovak language is often missing words that are common in English, like having the same word for “borrow” (/lend), where the difficult grammar indicates who is borrower and who is the one borrowed from. An English word like “cut” might have different Slovak words depending on whether one cuts hair, or wood, or bread. (Not to mention cards.) As a language, the English acceptance of other words and concepts is unsurpassed. C’est la Vie.

I usually hold my internal conversations in silence, but my wife has mentioned I’m doing too much of verbal talking to myself in the last few years. I suspect that men are more often visual thinkers and women more verbal.

I’m pretty sure Truth is not merely words; I’m sure reality isn’t.

My younger son watches videos the way I read blogs; I wonder if his thoughts are in movie form. My unprompted thoughts have pretty much always been spoken-word (never written-word), but then I was a constant reader from when I first learned to read, so I guess I don’t have enough information to opine on whether how we shape those unprompted thoughts is innate or shaped in turn by how we prefer to experience the world.

I said, “But thinking is nothing but talking to yourself inside.”

So I learned from Bernie that thoughts can be visual as well as verbal.

The strange part of that is my subconscious has a mind of its own. I would fall asleep typing a novel, and wake, needing to edit extra words typed while “I” was sleeping. Real words, not just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. One of my favorites was “my blog is the frog i am not” . We just ride the horse.

I fall asleep very easily, and touch type, so my fingers are able to type with my eyes closed.

A centipede was happy, quite,
until a frog in fun,
said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?”
Which raised her mind to such a pitch
she lay distracted in a ditch
considering how to run.

(That’s the way I learned it in grade school, so it must be right; however, I don’t put a “p” in hamster unless it is a silent one.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Centipede%27s_Dilemma

Clearly utterly incorrect.

— Am I hungry? How would I even put thinking about that into words? Do you honestly think your internal monologue goes “Am I hungry? Stomach, give me your report. Ah, a bit of a pang. Maybe I should eat.”

— Do I want my sandwich heated? I recall the tastes of the two, and make a decision. There are no words involved at any point.

— Do I want to walk the long way to work, or the faster but more tiring short way? I “think” about how each would make me “feel”, and make a decision.

— What am I going to wear? Where did I leave my keys?

I would say that most of our decisions are made without words.

I know that when I watch football, that I basically stop thinking in words at all. I see the actions and know what I expect to happen, and then observe if it does happen, far faster than I could ever process in words.

Can you imagine how terrible a baseball player would be if they tried to think in words about how to hit a pitch?

With all my sympathy and respect… I find that fascinating.

“Heidegger: Human, All Too Human — Full BBC Documentary”
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/heidegger-thinking-the-unthinkable/

It pays particular attention to the new discoveries of Heidegger’s involvement with Nazism, which bothered some viewers as a smear, but to me it’s still essential, given Heidegger’s position as an ultimate philosopher discoursing on what it is to be an authentic human being.