Like you Zergling I think in very abstract sorta... well, it's hard to say what in, because it sorta all happens so fast that if I try to slow it down and stop and think about it, I straight away start thinking more consciously and then words begin to appear.
However I don't tend to find much difficulty when it comes to putting my thoughts into words. Some thoughts are very abstract and challenging to express, but I can usually find a way if I think about it. I wouldn't so much say that I can't find the right words, so much as that I can't find the words that some people could understand. I've written meditations in the past which have made perfect sense to me and some people read them and say wow, you know, that's how I feel or words to that effect. But then I can show it to someone else and they just scowl and sneer and say it's a load of gobbledigook or whatever. Possibly an S/N thing... I dunno.
I
think I think in
essences. Like each thing, each concept or idea or object has its own particular meaning to me, in my head - as well as being aware of various other meanings it has to other people I know or have known, and possible other meanings again to people i don't even know. Those things turn in my head into symbols... symbols without any particular sensory representation, it's just a collection of impressions, feelings, knowledges I have that always 'swim around' in particular combinations or patterns, around a certain idea... when something triggers me to need to access that idea, it's like I'm 'seeing' an atom or something... there's a nucleus that's its essential meaning or nature, and then many particles that orbit it in different paths/patterns/arrangements... and I can rearrange them if I want to, to see what it might 'swim' like... but I don't really see any of this and couldn't tell you anything even vaguely approaching tangible or whatever, about it. Except that it's
very fast.
Haha... yeah, can't always express it in terms anyone would understand. I think some things, people either get or they don't.
But no, not words and not pictures or sounds. They're too damn slow. I know that one of the worst things for me about writing is when my thoughts are flying far too quickly for the language part of my brain to catch up, and so many things are lost before I get to speak them if I
have to speak them as I go. I usually have a zillion ideas queueing up and falling over each other to reach the tip of my tongue.
And also being multilingual can be frustrating when I'm talking to people who don't know the languages I know or even one/some of them, cos even when I do try to slow myself down into words, it tends to come into my head as a jumbled up sentence containing all the most efficient words and ways of expressing the idea that I can think of, so there's a grammatical structure from one language and vocabulary from several others... to assemble it all into coherent sentences of one language can be anything from a thrilling challenge to a frustrating bore.
I don't really think it's my thoughts though... it's stuff from outside of me, the world out there... it just seems to fly into my head and bounce around and pick up pieces of other stuff and keep bouncing around until it ends up learning to assume so many different forms that I don't even know how it happened or where it came from.
Okay, I'll shut up now. But anyway, I think that's why ENTP's sometimes talk way too much!!