I think in birds.

With my brain

Depends on the context. I've stopped listening to music on my own accord years ago, so that is largely out. Although I do hum tunes, or more particularly rhythms, to myself.

Most of my actual thoughts however are a dialogue, as if I'm talking to someone. This happens when I have time to be lost in thought, and it's generally me explaining something.

If I'm trying to understand a physical occurrence, like electricity or hydrodynamics, I'll generally explain it to myself while visualizing it.

Then there's reactionary thoughts, like "Fucking Hell" and "God Damned Mother Fucker." This usually happens during particularly harsh activities which utilize your hands.

Then there's silent observation. I'm not saying anything in my head, nor am I visualizing anything. I'm just watching the events play out before me with curiosity.

When i were in 4th grade i heard someone talk about narrating your thoughts was the way to go, and only retards had "no thoughts". Prior to this i only thought in images. I started conditioning my mind (slowing down my speed of thought to narrate what i was thinking) long story short i was surrounded by inane mouthbreeding mongrels with superiority complexes.

When i got older i realized that at the moment my narrating inner voice started, the thought was already fully formed and finished in my minds eye.

So basically i was stumping my speed of thought. The term "speed of thought" is something that i came upon while reading where it is explained that in the past, it was most important to find ways to heighten ones speed of thought. One very interesting way it was done in children was that they trained eagles to carry a child around the age of 2-3 from the ground, where it had been living in a small space, to the heights of the clouds. Or they carried the child to a high place, for instance the top of a tree or a mountain top. This was done to create an explosion of consciousness withing the little human.

In my own experience narrating your thoughts and not using images or emotions to think is an inferior and much slower way of thinking.

It never shuts up. EVER.

I've thought about this and tried to answer a few different times when it comes up. I'm a native english speaker and I can use a few other languages to various (mostly pathetic) extents. But I also have a well-developed spatial sense, to the point where I basically never get lost because I can just about always simply visualize where I am in my memory of surroundings that been assembled in my headspace, and those "which of this figures is figure A viewed from a different angle" questions on mental acuity test is on the level of "why is something this obvious even a question". Also I have pretty well-integrated synesthesia that seems to significantly contribute to perception of letters, colors, textures, words, shapes... But I've found that it does not seem to contribute at all to syllabary or concept-glyphs which makes understanding japanese, chinese, and cherokee difficult.

Any way, the point of that is to get at saying that I do not have an inner monologue that plays out in my head in my native language most of the time. Sometimes when mentally drafting a text or thinking in clearly defined steps. But for the most part it's a sort of symbolic language that's a combination of flashes of the sensory impressions of words and concepts, shapes, links, and interactions. I definitely have an inner monologue, but not like I hear most people describe theirs. And I definitely do not lack an inner monologue, at least based on the descriptions I hear of others who lack one and are able to meaningfully contribute to discussion on it.

Like most men; I think with muh dick. But most people visualize words as images. I say 5 and your mind pulls up an image of a 5. at the point of narration, you have already gone through this process of visualization.

If "inner monologue" means taking to yourself, I do that sometimes, but usually it's concepts that I think in -- either visualizations or just pure ideas.

I have a suspicion that thinking being equated with mental vocalization is a Jew thing -- they seem to have a strong verbal IQ, and pushing a narrative where they're superior is very much part of their MO.

I have a set of rules that I live by to keep my mind clear. Harm no one, (even critters), tell no lies. when you lie, you have to fill your brain with shit ; remembering what you told to each person, that will keep your brain pr-occupied. Don't mess around with married women. You can't win with a lying, cheating whore. Be grateful for everything even if you don't see the blessing.